From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs [ really paper tape readers and tangentially related things ]
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:25:12 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001300722180.15513@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200115164647.AA0D218C0A2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Wow! WD created the QBUS? Fascinating. I wonder if DEC made any changes
> to the QBUS between the original demo WD boards and the first DEC ones?
> Are there any documents about the WD original still extant, do you know?
Which reminds me: I heard a story that DEC did not implement the Unibus as
specified, in order to lock out 3rd-party vendors; apparently the timing
was not quite right. You couldn't complain to DEC because it was not
their gear, and you couldn't complain to the vendor because they followed
the spec...
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-29 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-15 16:46 Noel Chiappa
2020-01-15 18:35 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-29 20:25 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2020-02-04 20:26 ` Dave Horsfall
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2020-01-15 6:17 [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 6:34 ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 7:10 ` [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs [ really paper tape readers and tangentially related things ] Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15 8:05 ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 14:50 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-15 23:40 ` Al Kossow
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