Re:French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress
by JPLeRouzic on Saturday August 29, 2026 @02:38AM
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Ah, another "télécommunicant"!
I briefly worked on 11F centers back in the 70s and 80s, not E10 family, but in 1999, I salvaged some AM2901 chips from Mitra CPU boards that were headed for the scrap heap. They came from either the Yellow Pages or Transpac in Rennes facilities—it was a hectic time!
As for information sources, I found doctoral theses from CEA, a scientist from INRIA kindly pointed to INRIA historical resources and current work [0]. There are as well SNCF, EDF or BULL historical resources, a museum in Denmark, ex USSR documents but for creating a Mitra simulator nothing beats Pascal Chour's website.
What is missing for a SIMH simulator is original software to make sure the simulator is accurate (currently it is not).
If you have memories or documents about the Mitra-15 computer, please can you share them?
I briefly worked on 11F centers back in the 70s and 80s, not E10 family, but in 1999, I salvaged some AM2901 chips from Mitra CPU boards that were headed for the scrap heap. They came from either the Yellow Pages or Transpac in Rennes facilities—it was a hectic time!
As for information sources, I found doctoral theses from CEA, a scientist from INRIA kindly pointed to INRIA historical resources and current work [0]. There are as well SNCF, EDF or BULL historical resources, a museum in Denmark, ex USSR documents but for creating a Mitra simulator nothing beats Pascal Chour's website.
What is missing for a SIMH simulator is original software to make sure the simulator is accurate (currently it is not).
[0] https://tiers-lieux.univ-rennes.fr/projets/mitra-miniature