minicomputers
Systems
Engineering Laboratories, Inc. [SEL]
Systems 810B - released Dec.1968
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This machine is the first all SUHL 16 bit machine offered by
SEL.
- It was the size of a refrigerator, had bank protect and
mapping instructions. When Tempest tested, it made so much
background noise that the testors were unable to extract any
intelligence from the noise and could not determine exactly what code
the machine was executing.
- Many of these machines
were sold, some
into exotic locations and mounted in trailers for the “Kings
Knight” project and ended up being thermited when we left Iran.
Back then, this was a NSA listening post into the USSR.
- Cycle time was 800 ns.
