[Simh] TMXR/UC15 documentation?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Jul 18 19:05:55 EDT 2018


On 2018-07-18 10:46, Angelo Papenhoff wrote:
> On 18/07/18, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> Really? The KA10 itself predates the Unibus. I guess it's possible they
>> added the ability to hook up Unibuses later in the life of the machine,
>> but the KI would have been around at that point as well, so a bit
>> surprising that they'd do anything with the KA at that point.
> 
> Lars and Rich already commented, but I wanted to add that I was told by
> Richard Greenblatt (who has never seen a KI he said) that they simply
> found the KI to be disappointing. Not enough of an improvement over the
> KA to justify replacing the KAs, still no real paging in particular.

Yep, with the information from Rich and Lars I now understand better 
what this was.

As for the pager in the KI, it's a well known story. I still the KI 
looks nicer, though. :-)

   Johnny

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