Re: Unusual “gold” IC chips?

Those look like "stripline" RF/microwave packages. PCBs will have cutouts for the package body, so that the leads can be soldered flat (no bends) directly onto impedance-controlled leads on the board. On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 6:17 PM Oldcompu via cctech wrote: > Anybody know what these are? Mayb

Re: Core memory

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 10:26 PM Marc Howard via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > We need to onshore Nixie production now! ;-) > Gentle plug for https://www.daliborfarny.com/.

Re: Core memory

On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 4:01 PM Will Cooke via cctech wrote: > > Gentle plug for https://www.daliborfarny.com/. > > I got excited by that until I saw there was no pricing and no > availability. :-( > I know :-P I binge-watched their youtube channel (here

[cctalk] Re: 14 DZ11's for sale/whatever

(wildly off topic but) On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 4:49 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > > I don't think the 11/750 could have handled that many users on DZ-11s. With DZ-11s no. But it is impressive what could be done with the "good" hardware. In the mid 80s I was an occasional user on a 11/750 t

Re: VT100 colors

A guess, but a confident one: the white part of the VT100 casing would originally have been the same white as the VAX11 metal cabinets were painted in. Look at promotional brochures from the era that include a VAX and a terminal. The color might well be a FED-STD-595 one, and/or a very similar Pant