On 01/31/2018 11:43 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 1/31/18 12:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
10,000 TTL IC'S
3 MIPS
Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been bigger than the Livermore S-1.
F1 was the machine that Whitney-Demos had, I think, and there was only ever
one of them.
Yes, I was wondering about that. Depending on packaging
technique, 10K TTL ICs could have been packaged into a
modest-sized cabinet, but if done on the large Augat panels
like the National Advanced Systems and some other Foonly
machines, they would get insanely large. A roughly 12"
square WireWrap panel with a grid of 20 x 25 chips would
hold 500 ICs. So, 20 of those would do the whole 10K IC
system. That could fit in two rack-mount card cages with
WW, or one card cage if all etched circuitry. It would need
a hefty cooling blower, though.
Jon
