[Info-vax] DEC VAX 8650

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-09, Don North <nada at spam.com> wrote:
>
> Are you ...
>
> "Fernando Cristino Colon Osorio is a Puerto Rican engineer, inventor, educator, 
> and entrepreneur who is currently the executive director of the Wireless Systems 
> Security Research Laboratory (WSSRL). In 1975 he was the primary architect of 
> Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP 11/60 floating point unit. The FP11E 
> incorporated the Newton-Raphson method as a mechanism to accelerate floating 
> point division by a factor of 6X. Later in his career at DEC he was the 
> principal architect of the Vax 8650, the Vaxft series of Fault Tolerant 
> computers, as well as Centaurus, an out of order execution ECL implementation of 
> the Vax architecture. In 1982, he proposed and designed the precursor to the 
> MicroVax, a first implementation of a system on a chip utilizing 1 micron 
> technology. The Project named internally "System On A Chip", was the first 
> attempt at DEC's semiconductor division to incorporate 1 million transistor on a 
> single chip."
>
> Don North
> DEC 1978-82
> 11/60 FP11 Diagnostics and DCS Diagnostic Microcode
>

Looks like the OP may be a real-life version of J.R. Hartley. :-)

To the OP, try giving David Turner at Island Computers a call.

I extremely doubt he has one to hand :-), but there's a remote chance
he may know of someone decommissioning one of them. He posts his
email address in the clear, so here it is: dturner at islandco.com

Good luck with your search,

Simon.

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