{"id":4083,"date":"2012-02-17T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:20:41","slug":"burroughs-mainframe-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/burroughs-mainframe-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Burroughs Mainframe Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Years ago I got the chance to help empty out a friend’s neighbor’s basement after they passed away. This basement was stuffed with old computers and electronics, and I acquired a number of interesting items from there, many of which are now displayed around the house. (Core memory, old test equipment, notebooks, etc.)<\/p>\n

The photos from this excursion can be found here (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, if you’re interested.<\/p>\n

One of the items I’d acquired was a milk crate full of old cards from a Burroughs mainframe. Each is a bunch of discrete components<\/a> built into what’s essentially a logical unit, designed to perform some function. These days a small integrated circuit<\/a> would be used to perform the same (or multiple) functions.<\/p>\n

I’ve given many of these items away, as in my excitement I ended up with many more items than needed. Everything from large boxes of valves to old, uncalibrated oscilloscopes have found homes with friends who had a better use for them than I did. A little while back I was contacted by a guy named William Donzelli<\/a> who was interested in the history of the Burroughs mainframe and the cards from it. I didn’t know much about it and couldn’t answer many questions, so a couple days back I sent off this box containing the cards to him. Hopefully he’ll find them enlightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years ago I got the chance to help empty out a friend’s neighbor’s basement after they passed away. This basement was stuffed with old computers and electronics, and I acquired a number of interesting items from there, many of which are now displayed around the house. (Core memory, old test equipment, notebooks, etc.) The photos\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-computers","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4086,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}