[rescue] Wow, 30k Graphics Card From Sun

[dave at cca.org]

lists at pellucidar.net writes:

>On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:05:13 -0400
>Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

>>   No offense intended...I recall having been QUITE surprised when I
>> learned of their discrete transistor machines..
>> 
>>      -Dave

>As am I, what were they sold for? Number crunching or data storage?

The only Packard Bell (divison of Packard Bell Electronics) computers
I'm familiar with are the PB-250 and a massive analogue system 
("Trice"?) that I've only seen an ad for.

The PB-250 is from around 1960, and was a very low-end machine. The
one in the RCS's collection was used in a lab for realtime data 
monitoring of some sort.

Small, cheap, *weird*. (22 bit, delay line. And the backplane is
soldered, not wirewrapped.)

I have some info on it here:

	http://www.cca.org/tech/rcs/pb250.html

And there's a good story about using one here:

	http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Technology/HAPCS/dosoct98.html

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