On 1/3/23 21:39, Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Maybe 20 years ago, I worked in the Princeton NJ area for a tiny company that produced a PC board imaging scanning system, for PC board component inspection. It used an analog TV camera on an X-Y mount, digitized images, and recognition software trained on other images. Of course it looked for component errors, misplacement, etc.
The computer was a Motorola VMEbus 68000 system, running on OS-9 68K. The image processing code, was FORTH. Motorola produced a range of VMEbus 68K systems, as did other companies. But Motorola created the VMEbus.
Neat!!
Early Sun stuff was 68000 I believe. Unix ran on 68000's. and of course, the Macintosh was 68K before PowerPC.
Yes, earlier Suns were based on 68010s, 68020s, and 68030s.
To Dave's question. It's a decision in a vintage computing collection, to select industrial equipment, business equipment, or hobby equipment, or the crossovers. People choose what's familiar to them, from whatever domains where they encountered computers they found of interest.
"Hardware appropriate"? Depends on your goals. But a 21st cent. SS-50 6809 running NitrOS9, next to a 68000 industrial thingy running something (OS-9, Unix), and a Tandy Color Computer nearby, would be a Motorola trifecta. Add the SWTPC 6800 running Flex on floppy to get something seriously vintage.
The goal in this case is for LSSM to show off OS-9 on a 68K system. We've wanted to do that for some time. The emphasis in this case is on the operating system and its capabilities. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA