[TUHS] Any Interdata war stories?

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On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 at 12:45 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the refresh -- National chip (16032), not the Z8000 but right idea.
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> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
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> > On 4/29/25 11:46 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> > > I have an image of the "MIT Compiler Tape" with a bunch of different PCC ports from a couple of different institutions.
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> > I forgot I put this up a while ago
> > http://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/trix/MIT_Compiler_Tape
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> > I wish I had more information about what went on wrt Steve Ward's lab

Just fyi, thread from a couple years back in which Steve Johnson offered some recollections of his time involved in the Interdata 8/32 work at BTL: https://tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tuhs@tuhs.org/thread/WH4IEMFZEZEDPG5VQHDWKTS6UTRMTRLL/

His recollections above touch on the microcode bug that prevented the Interdata port from being viable beyond porting exercises.

- Matt G.