On Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:36:18 -0400, rickman wrote:

> I have a board sitting right here with an MSP430FR4133 that has 15 kB of
> FRAM on board and other members of the family have up to 128 kB of FRAM
> along with a lot of other "stuff", all running at up to 8 MHz with no
> wait states.  Pretty amazing how far technology advances with time.  If
> I had any ASR33 terminals I would connect it all up!  Instead I think
> I'll connect it to a one square inch solar cell and run it with no
> external power and no battery.  ;)

Yes, and moved on in other ways too. IIRC that roomful (1904S CPU, disk
controller, 2xEDS60, 8x tapedrive, 1x 1250lpm LP, 1x 900 cpm card reader,
1/paper tape reader, 1x scanner) ate around 40KW - and I have no idea how
much power the computer room's aircon needed.


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