31 Aug
2023
31 Aug
'23
5:54 p.m.
I have one Interprocessor Buffer (M8326). Of course just one won't help to
connect my Lab-8/e and my PDP-8/e. :-(
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023, 12:49 am Mike Katz via cctalk, <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
DEC did make the Interprocessor Buffer (M8326) for the
Ominibus. That
allowed for relatively high speed communications between machines. You
could also do some kind of serial network like Lantastic. I know some
company made an SDLC board set for the omnibus.
On 8/30/2023 8:04 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2023, at 8:46 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
>> -BUT- That does not mean it *can't* be restored, only that $15,000 is
>> ridiculous for a machine that clearly needs an expert with time and
money.
>> b
> True, it is a silly price. I was thinking about this on the forum: If
someone offers to buy one of my fully running 8/L's for 6k I'll put in
an
offer on this one for 3k and restore it. The extra 3k will be used to buy
beer to help me forget about all of the little mouse ghosts I'm going to
find. :-)
>
> I'd offer 3k for it outright, but to be honest I can't have 3 pdp8/L's
AND an 8/e. At some point I'd have to wire them into some sort of nightmare
SMP pdp8....
Or DECnet/8, though I suspect an 8/L can't
run that.
paul