[rescue] DEC PDP10 Status Update

Michael Thompson m_thompson at ids.net
Mon Nov 11 07:30:01 CST 2002


>Ok, i'm not at all familar with PDP-10's, but, is that a "Intel Inside"
>sticker on it? (slightly to the right of, and above where it says
>"DECSYSTEM 2020", to the right of a digital sticker)  Or is that some
>other sticker that just looks like it?
>
>	-Dan Sikorski

Good catch. The front end/boot/maintenance processor on the console board
is an 8080. It loads the microcode and boot program and then lights off the
KS10 CPU. That sticker is there to needle  my PDP10 zealot friends. It's
really an AMD 8080 CPU chip though.


Michael Thompson
m_thompson at NOSPAMids.net



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