6600 selector adaptor (1 Sep 1972) (Engineering Materials). [9 drawings and text (3 pages)]
Drawings are given for a 6600 Selector Adapter intended to interface a CDC 6600 Channel to LRL OCTOPUS equipment, either PDP-6 Line Units or PDP-8 Line Units. It is constructed to integrate circuits, mostly DEC M-series, and is the successor of the PDP-6/6600 Adapter, built from DEC Flip-Chip logic cards. The most important difference between these Adapters, however, is not in construction, but in architecture. The Selector Adapter can connect to up to 15 Line Units instead of just one. Information is read and written via these Line Units block by block, in ''selector'' fashion. The 6600 Peripheral Processor controlling the Adapter's 6600 Channel can rotate among the Line Units, checking and changing status information, and send or receive a block of data from any selected Line Unit when it desires.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
- OSTI ID:
- 7350235
- Report Number(s):
- CAPE-2450
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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