[lug] [OT!] Help with rsx/DEC

[D. Stimits]

Ken Weinert wrote:
> This might be a dumb question, but have you tried the -8 option to
> telnet to establish an 8-bit data path?

That's a good point, they might have been using the full 8-bits, while 
the other stuff is assuming 7-bit.

> And, a bit off topic - when I was at Kent there was a person there who
> built his own machine that was all based on 7400 series logic and it
> had a 128bit wide bus. His PDP-11 emulator ran faster than the actual
> PDP-11 did :)

Hah, I remember the 7400 series...I'm too old.

> There were racks and racks of wire-wrapped logic chips - amazing thing to see.

I'd bet that the wire wrap boards and sockets cost more than the rest of 
the machine combined.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net