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The Foonly F-1

Foonly was a company which made PDP-10 clones.

They had their own operating system, FOONEX, for their machines; it was based on TENEX.

Computer models

The F-1 was an ECL adaptation of the original Super Foonly design. The only one was built at III for use in an optical character recognition system, and later was bought by Omnibus for generating computer graphics.

The F-2 was a small machine. Among other places, it was used at CCRMA and the S-1 supercomputer project (running WAITS), and Symbolics.

The F-3 and F-4 were larger machines, popular with Tymshare, which built their own versions. Tymeshare's System 26KL was an update of the F-4 design with KL10 capabilities, intended to run Douglas Engelbart's Augment.

The Foonly F2

The F-5 was another small machine.

Peripherals

  • The Foonly C1 was a disk channel for DEC computers, compatible with IBM drives.


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