That’s all Greek to me. I’m basing it on what I read was the problem it. Mechanically it worked. The original owner drove it with the v-8-6-4 still active all the way up to 2018 when the second owner disconnected it.
Perhaps I should amend my original statement to the 1981 Computer Technology THAT GM USED was not up to the challenge. Donald H. Snook > On Sep 15, 2023, at 11:37 AM, Jim Cathey <jim.cathey...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> but 1981 computer technology wasn’t up to the job. > > I think I would disagree. The particular implementation may have been crap, > but if the necessary mechanical bits were up to the task, the state of the art > of electronics at that time was perfectly able to keep up. (And would have > needed > a long development time in order to get all the bugs and quirks out, which I > think > is what went wrong with that engine. This was a New Thing, and the various > subsystems might have needed to be mixes of proactive and reactive logic, the > partitioning and balance could well have been completely wrong in the early > designs > meaning that it might _never_ work right, as initially designed. It would > have been > a fun engineering challenge, and I'm absolutely confident it could have > worked well. > Eventually.) > > Mind you, that was around when I was actually designing computers for a > living. > And commercial- and mil-spec parts and second sources were still a thing. > Programs > would have been hand-crafted and kilobytes in size, with nothing in there > that wasn't > completely justified, and well understood. Not like today. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
