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On 5/26/21 12:45 AM, Jason Stevens wrote:

> GENERIC POWER 6/32 (HCX9)
> 
> With other bits that fit the bill in the source.  With that said I don’t think there is any system ROM or firmware dumps or did it use a 
> writeable control store?
> 
> But then again there is some movement on an RT emulator and there is the 3b2 stuff so maybe there only needs to be a ‘push’…
>

Harris, Unisys and others OEMed it from CCI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Consoles_Inc.


It is probably a lost architecture now like Pyramid and to some extent Ridge
because the vendor never released architecture or service documentation.

I managed to save one Ridge-32, docs and software.