Very nice, thank you! That DPS-6 page wasn't kidding when they said the boards were on the large side! Very interesting; they definitely have their own unique style about them ... they really liked to use daugherboards! That memory expansion card is sort of unusual. As is the edge connector for the bus.
Best, Sean On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Josh Dersch <dersc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/23/15 2:56 PM, Sean Caron wrote: > >> Ah, so these are the vintagetech.com machines! Please take lots of pics >> of >> the DPS-8 inside and out; I've never really seen the innards of a >> Honeywell >> machine before and I'm kind of curious what their "style" looks like. >> >> Best, >> >> Sean >> > > I put a few pictures up here: > > http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/dps6/ > > Nice bitslice processor in there, an Ethernet controller, some memory > (looks like 2MB) and as for the other boards, I'm not yet sure...) > > - Josh > > > >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Many years ago we used them as Data Entry machines, but I have no >>> documents and have forgotten everything I knew. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Josh >>>> Dersch >>>> Sent: 23 September 2015 22:45 >>>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >>>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >>>> Subject: Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside info? >>>> >>>> Along with the 11/44 I also picked up a Honeywell/Bull DPS-6 deskside >>>> workstation; I can't seem to dig up much information specific to this >>>> >>> model (a >>> >>>> badge on the rear labels it as "Model/Index No. B01732"). I can take >>>> >>> some >>> >>>> detailed pictures later this week after I've had time to clean it up >>>> >>> (it's very, >>> >>>> very dirty), but it looks very similar to the DPS-6 unit pictured on >>>> >>> this site: >>> >>>> http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/gcos6/gcos6.htm >>>> >>>> Anyone have any docs on this thing? Or fun anecdotes to share? What >>>> >>> have >>> >>>> I gotten myself into with this thing? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Josh >>>> >>> >>> >