Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: moi Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 00:02:21 +0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1396870532.749421730.052473.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1976765442.762208809.808387.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> <1924764604.762215659.468999.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <3XCdnVK8WegeNlz6nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Sfxa2Ysq1lJHFp6hcEnIXQAOFIeDF4sNihMseTZRm/vjJyqPHx Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZY6g1g3W4O7M0WtpREJIIxEL5xU= sha256:udPEdlYeR2EvRHsTUgbUQwFqTGJRNcgusKM8uk3J4iI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230213 comp.os.linux.misc:65883 On 28/02/2025 19:22, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 28/02/2025 12:26, c186282 wrote: >> A lot of mini-computers were 16 bit around the >>    time microprocessors came out, so "half a mini" >>    maybe kinda sounded logical. >> >>    Should be a fair number of the decision-makers >>    from the 60s-70s still alive. If anybody knows >>    some, ASK. > Well an old friend of mine was involved in a small 16 bit minicomputer > years ago. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digico_Limited If they founded DIGICO in 1965 they could not have been ex-ICL; ex-ICT at most, contrary to Wikipedia. > > IIRC it was all TTL, as CMOS hadnt come in. > They never made the transition to CPU chips as such. When I knew them > around 1975 > > I am not sure what happened to them after that. I seem to remember them proposiing an ambitious successor design with many bells and whistles. Perhaps they fell victim to the second system effect. -- Bill F.