Joy,
By clicking on the link you will discover priceless
features rarely present in even the most modern
desktop computers:
Paper tape reader: handy for reading your old 1975
era BASIC and FORTRAN IV code.
Real Time Executive: we *still* don't have this
included standard on modern computers. Necessary
for writing low latency device drivers.
Source code for math libraries: rarely if ever these
days is decent source code included with computers.
I'd give my right nibble for a good least squares
curve fitting routine.
Line printer: how the hell are we supposed to get
long fan-folded listings of our amazing software these
days? MINITS truly had it all.
Reprogrammable microcode firmware: absolutely necessary
to create custom instructions like..
ADDAL add an entry to Keith's address list program
EQ enter quotation into the Olive quote program
MOVL move labia to register
which aren't included in the standard instruction set.
8 processors: only this year has Steve Jobs stepped
Apple's multiprocessor offerings to 8. And these guys
were doing it in *1969*. Handy for rapidly computing
your chest size.
dc
barkofdelight wrote:
>
>
> This is pretty cool, somebody scanned what looks to
> be the press release for the Interdata Model 4
>
> http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Interdata/Interdata.4.1969.102646126.pdf
> <http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Interdata/Interdata.4.1969.102646126.pdf>
>
> Bark!
Received on 2007-06-19 21:42:57