[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[Neil L. Little]

Oops, I just remembered. It could not have been a Nova 3 because they 
were 16 bit computers.

> Or it could have been a Data General Nova 3. The control panel on 
> these were white. The control panel that showed the lights for the 
> registers and words were yellow. The flipper paddle switches were yellow.
>
> There were two versions. The Nova 3 with a 16 slot mainframe and the 
> Nova 3 Jr with 3 or 5 slot mainframe.
>
> Of course the cards were about 18"x18". Power supply on the bottom, 
> CPU card above it a FPU card or memory card (1 or 2 cards) and lastly 
> a controller card..
> Access to the interface was from in line pins connected to a Dasher 
> terminal on the back plane. Connection to peripherals were through a 
> 100 pin (S100) slot card wire wrapped to the pins on the back of the 
> mainframe.
>
> The older version the Nova 2 had a blue control panel. The flipper 
> switches were regular (metal) toggle switches. Of cour
>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:00:36AM -0500, J.C. Jones wrote:
>>   
>>> > 
>>> > One of my first computers that I use in my work was a mini-computer, 12 
>>> > bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was 
>>> > part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the 
>>> > manufacturer's name for the computer.
>>>     
>>
>> Although 12-bit words was not unique, this could easily have been a DEC
>> PDP-8.  What sort of date was this?
>>
>>
>> Brian