22-02-2025, 05:43 AM
It's an illustration of just how fast the technology was moving. In the early 1970s the DICE 625<>525 standards converter used a framestore that occupied much of two 7ft high rack bays and cost over £200,000 at the time. By the early 1980s a framestore was expensive but routine. By the late 1980s it was fairly cheap, by the early 1990s it was trivial.
The COW was made using 27128 EPROMs though the boards were designed to allow for 27256 or 27512 parts in case these became a more economic solution between design and manufacture.
The COW was made using 27128 EPROMs though the boards were designed to allow for 27256 or 27512 parts in case these became a more economic solution between design and manufacture.
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