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fredoralive 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Roughly how many varieties of module were used for a full 604 system?

I suspect quite a few as other "modular" systems in the transistor era like the later IBM Standard Modular System and DEC Flip-Chips ended up with plethora of specialised modules, but I'd be interested if that growth had already begun in the tube era.

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WarOnPrivacy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you ever run into that method (discrete module+components) in non-IBM configurations? What abut non-computing configs? I've never seen it before.

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kens an hour ago | parent [-]

I powered up the module independently, powering a light bulb, so it's a non-computing configuration. (I'm not sure if that's what you're asking.)

	▲	WarOnPrivacy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Sorry. I rephrased my question as you were posting. It basically asks "Have you ever seen the like before?". I hope it make more sense now.

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