From inwap@best.com Fri Sep 29 19:17:30 PDT 1995 Article: 1599 of alt.sys.pdp10 Path: news.u.washington.edu!news.uoregon.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!shellx.best.com!shell1.best.com!not-for-mail From: inwap@best.com (J.Smith and J.Snyder) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Compuserve and the DECsystem-10 Date: 27 Sep 1995 11:06:11 -0700 Organization: Chez INWAP (people, computers, cats) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <44c3qj$d9b@shell1.best.com> References: <43v18a$a63@cliff.swec.com> <442j6n$gip@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <44531a$5k1@dns.plano.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.best.com Summary: Tymshare used F3 Xref: news.u.washington.edu alt.folklore.computers:120881 alt.sys.pdp10:1599 In article , William wrote: >The F2 was a small pdp-10 clone (one or two 19" racks.) >I don't know if there was ever an F3. Tymshare had several F3 system; I have the console (lights and switches) from one in my bedroom. They came in two 19-inch rack; one for the wirewrapped CPU and 2 SMD disks, the other for the Kenedy tape drive and more SMD disks. Microcode loaded from 1/2-inch tape only. A little bit slower than a KI. Carl can provide more details. -Joe -- INWAP.COM is Joe and Sally Smith, John and Chris O'Halloran (and our cats). See http://www.inwap.com/ for details, including info on "ReBoot" and PDP-10.