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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8
- Subject: Re: PDP-8 Collectors
- Message-ID: <36774@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:24:46 GMT
- References: <Bx946L.KCM@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1992Nov5.195426.10466@news.uiowa.edu>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 35
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- jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
- > At work, I've talked our department into providing a home for a
- > 1966 vintage PDP-8, and I have a small group of students starting
- > the job of figuring out whether it is safe to plug it in and try
- > turning it on (such wonderful questions as: are all the flip-chip
- > modules plugged into the right slots, and what cables go where?)
-
- The RPI-ACM once (early-80's) had a PDP-8 (no /anything), ALL flip-
- chips, with adjustable power supply for preventive maintenance, and an entire
- second cabinet of flip-chips for running X-ray crystallography experiments.
- (It included a pulse-amplifier hooked up to a speaker for playing music...)
-
- I designed (but never built) a DMA printer driver using flip-chips
- to run a 700 LPM Burroughs line-printer we also happened to have. (That
- printer was eventually responsible for sending me to the hospital, when we
- had a "printer-bash" during GM week...)
-
- I also use an 8/e with dectape in high-school. I still have about 10
- tapes, mostly set up using Educomp OS/8 and EduBasic. I also have 3 trays of
- paper-tape software, including Focal, a couple of basics, fortran (I think),
- and a bunch of other things, including a chess program.
-
- The RPI PDP-8 was lent to the secretary for a halloween thing at his
- fraternity (he wasn't much into real programming), and his fraternity burnt
- down before he returned it. argh.... I wanted that machine...
-
- I would _love_ to get my hands on an 8/e with tape drives. Even
- an 8/anything with paper tape would be better than nothing.
-
- --
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- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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