I'm not-so-seriously looking for an Intel MDS system :)
I have no idea what one is worth though. Vintage computer prices are all
over the place.
I had a lot of fun recently restoring an iPDS and building some boards for
it (the multimodule adapter and a few multimodules for it). I have thought
I think the biggest change is our compute resources stopped going faster
in terms of raw cycles per second, and started going wider in terms of
parallelism. It's now commonplace for me to run workloads that can actually
use many CPU cores, and I'm starting to occasionally run workloads that are
so
Been lurking for a while, but this topic hits true with some recent
experiences. I would not hesitate to buy most common digital ICs on Amazon
or ebay, but I usually will not buy analog ICs other than from trusted
sources, such as Mouser. I have bought LM2596 voltage regulators that
oscillate at
The system consists of:
1) a 19" rack-mountable CPU chassis
2) a 19" rack-mountable floppy-disk drive (and bootable RT-11 floppy-disks)
3) Zenith Z-29-A RS232 terminal
The boards included are:
M8186 KDF11-A 11/23 CPU
? 256KB parity RAM
? DSD-440 floppy disk interface
? bus
