Retro-Computing Societies DEC PDP/12
Nope, its not a Mazda Rotory Wankel engine.
Its a 14" platter hard drive...
Imagine the size of the laptop that would
go into!!! ;-)
There that hard drive again...
this time in front of a massive punch card
reader. (Rumour has it, this is the machine
of choice for the next
presidential election for counting election
cards!!! ;-)
Univac Card Entry workstation (Center)
Robert Stek and Christine Finn in front of Rob's impressive display
to the left and Megan
Gentry's incredible PDP/11 Exhibit to the right.
Photo from the earlier hours on Saurday
morning as exhibit tables and vendor tables are just
being setup and systems are being powered
on and readied for demo's.
This display was simply amazing!!!
Its a D-116 Mini-computer with a scope connected to
it, on the screen is the original Space
War which was controlled by flipping switches on
the front of the system to move the rockets
left, right, thrust and fire, this was sooooo cool!!!!
Symbolics Minicomputer, impressive system
even
just standing there and not even powered
up yet.
One of the many tables setup by Tom Owad
of www.apple-fritter.com
More of Tom Owads' Apples....
Macintosh clones and portables....
Uncommon Commodore exhibit...
Note the C116 and matching proto disk drive.
More of the Uncommon Commodore exhibit, in the corner is a prototype
of
the unreleased DX-64 Portable. Some source code from the
boot prom is
displayed on the left screen.
Another photo of the Univac system as its being moved around and setup
for display
by the Retro-Computing Society of Rode Island.