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The Honeywell 316
was a 16-bit minicomputer from the late 60s, popular for embedded
control. Famous for a few things: the basis for the orginal
IMP
of the very earliest incarnation of the internet (actually a
slightly different model: the 516), an important platform for early
forth development
(see the NRAO 1971 section), and the controller-of-choice for radio telescopes
in the 70s.
The 316 I used for these photos is part of the collection
at the RCS.
The front panel:
The guts - the large boards at the upper right are the CPU, the smaller
boards to the left are IO, and the boards at the bottom
are the core memory & core drivers.
One of the boards that makes up the CPU:
The core memory boards fold up into this module:
Some of the little boards used for the IO interfaces:
Wirewrapped backplane:
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