Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> > Hans Witvliet wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:59 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > >   
> > >     
> > > > The Data General Eclipse line had a feature called "Writable Control
> > > > Store", which could be used to add custom instructions to the CPU.  The
> > > > VAX 11/780 had it's microcode loaded from floppy at boot, but I don't
> > > > recall if it was changeable in the same manner as the Eclipse WCS.
> > > >
> > > >     
> > > >       
> > > Floppy?
> > > It was a real huge 8" flop ... (still have them here)
> > >
> > > hw
> > >   
> > >     
> > Yep.  There was an LSI-11 (microprocessor version of PDP-11) hidden in
> > the cabinet, equipped with one or two 8", hard sectored drives.  It was
> > also used to connect the console terminal.  As I recall, the command to
> > use it as the VAX console was "STP" and Ctl-Z(?) to return to the LSI-11
> > console.  Back in it's day, the VAX was considered a "super mini", a
> > real hot system.  But it only had the CPU power of a 386!
> >
> > BTW, that's where I first came across the "Adventure" game.  :-
>
> Several years ago I was given an Xerox floppy drive with a box of 8"
> floppies. Many "commercial" programs. Unfortunately I didn't get the
> computer that went with them. The lady that owned it had already given
> that to a school for challenged children to hammer on. *<[:o(

as in, with large blunt pieces of metal on wooden sticks?



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