Re: Does anyone here have an 11/60?

They were used as MUMPS machines IIRC back in the Boston area. The
problem with the 11/60 was that it pulled a lot of power, used rather
low capacity "lard" disk units (RK06/07) and worst of all didn't have 22
bit mode. Thus they were not much more use than say an 11/34a. Although
they did have supervisor mode; don't remember if they had the dual
registers. Still, what could you do with that?

It was a great design; it just didn't go far enough. The little blip
that DEC did towards microprogramming pretty much fell flat after the
11/03 WCS and the 11/60 in the 11 line. They continued with the 11/23
(CIS) and 11/44 (CIS) but that was about it.

So I can see most of them being junked for being too fat, too slow (not
11/44 speed), and too limited.

Chris

Johnny Billquist wrote:[color=blue]
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Stuart Brook wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:12:31 -0700, Ian King wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I saw one on eBay a couple of years back. IIRC, it was in Europe
>>> (so shipping to the States would have been horrendous, which is why
>>> I didn't try to buy it!) and it went for a fairly high price.
>>> That's the only one I've seen on the market in the last five years
>>> or so. -- Ian[/color]
>>
>>Indeed they are rare beasts.
>>
>>I've seen only one since my involvement with DEC systems began in 1971.
>>
>>As somebody I know would say
>>
>>They're nearly as rare as rocking horse droppings![/color]
>
>
> So the fact that a computer club I'm involved in having had four at the
> same time a number of years ago is kindof unique?
>
> All I have left now is the cards for a complete CPU. Tossed the cabinet
> like six years ago now. Don't think anyone would be interested in the cost
> of shipping it from Sweden anyhow... :-)
>
> Johnny
>
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