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Vintage computing / electronics databook - can anyone date this from the pics?

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First post, by dicky96

Posted on 2019-02-25, 16:42

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Hi guys
Found this in the loft while clearing out.

It's an old electronics / computer databook - 'ITT Microprocessor Guild'. Here are some of the pics in the book - anyone like to put a date on that? I looked in the book but could not find any reference to when it was published

I'm guessing sometime mid 70s but could be some way off. I did a google for this book and came up with absolutely zero info. I'm sure I picked this up in the 80s sometime, probably at ICL where I worked and they were throwing old stuff out.

Anyway there are a lot of pics of vintage computers in the book.

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Reply 1 of 5, by dicky96

Posted on 2019-02-25, 16:46

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Few more.

I wouldn't be suprised if some of the computers and equipment in the photos no longer exist, not even one surviving example

I also wonder if any other copy of this book survived.

Reply 2 of 5, by lost77

Posted on 2019-02-25, 17:53

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The EXORdisk II mentioned is from 1976 I Believe. F8 formulator mark III and COSMAC Development system II is 1977 I think. Can't see anything newer than that.

Reply 3 of 5, by Stiletto

Posted on 2019-02-25, 18:38

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You could ask bitsavers.org if they had any ideas (they may also be interested in scanning it.)

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Reply 4 of 5, by retardware

Posted on 2019-02-25, 18:49

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The memories still show even the AM9401PC. The "Asint Scribona" word processor (with an IBM Selectric as terminal) from 1973 that I modded back in the early 1980s to work as printer for my DOS PC used similar shift registers as circular RAM.
AMD SRAM went no higher than 2102 that time.
The Fairchild 16kbit DRAMs were introduced in 1976 iirc.

So I guess we can date that booklet at around 1977, but probably no later than 1978.

Reply 5 of 5, by dicky96

Posted on 2019-02-25, 19:51

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Yes I do think it is Mid 1970s
It's interesting to look at all that very old hardware but I've put it into auction on ebay UK. Maybe some one will like it and find a good home for it. I agree it should probably be in a museum or archive.

Will check out bitsavers,org not looked at that site before 😀

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