Front Panel Update

COURYHOUSE at aol.com COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Mon Jun 8 15:59:23 CDT 2015


yea... poor  8 s  was  20 microsecond  cycle   time....
the  S  stood  for serial buss  as  I remember  it.
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
In a message dated 6/8/2015 1:09:31 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
pontus at Update.UU.SE writes:

Quite  rare the PDP-8 faq says 1024 made. And given how slow it 
was, I suppose  people didn't hold on to it.

/P

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at  12:26:07PM -0700, couryhouse wrote:
> 
>      
> 8s is rare??   We have one.  Is there a an registry?    Ed#  smecc.org
> 
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G  LTE smartphone
> 
> -------- Original message --------
>  From: ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> 
> Date: 06/08/2015  12:05  PM  (GMT-07:00) 
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org 
> Subject: Re:  Front Panel Update 
> 
> On 6/8/2015 12:28 PM, Rod Smallwood  wrote:
> > Theres an 8/f which replaced the 8/e and has a similar  front panel with
> > extra markings
> > The 8/m - OEM no  front panel
> > The 8/I has different front panel
> > The  8/A is a totally different box altogether
> >
> > The 8/e  was the big seller with thousands shipped
> >
> The 8/s was a  small seller with 10's of computers shipped.
> I got to play with  both.
> Ben.
> 
> 


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