Thank you for mentioning the MSP430, I missed that in a cursory look at the 990. Very cool. Looking forward to a deep dive on the 990. On 8/18/2022 10:05 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Apparently I misunderstood Kelly's post; I thought the machine was available for rescue, hence my expression of interest for LSSM.
These are indeed very interesting and rare machines. The architecture lived on, after a fashion, in the current and wildly popular MSP430 microcontroller family. It differs in several ways but is clearly based on the TI990/TMS9900.
-Dave
On 8/17/22 22:37, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Unbelievable. Adam was just showing me this in the warehouse. I was was thinking at that moment I'd love to see this working, and it would be wonderful unique addition to the museum to complement the Data General, Wang, and HP. I was formulating plans in my head to expand the mini section. Personally I find it very interesting when microprocessors followed the architecture of a prior implementation. Which is something I'm highlighting when I can. So yes please!
On 8/17/2022 12:22 PM, Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Any interest in getting this old mini running? I'd like to work on it if there is any interest. I believe it was a TI 990/10 with a CDC fixed disk and a CDC cartridge disk.
Right now, I believe it is still in the warehouse somewhere.
Kelly