3 Nov
2008
3 Nov
'08
3:12 p.m.
paul at frixxon.co.uk wrote:
I've just passed our waste electrical skip at work
and noticed that
someone has dumped a PDP-8/e box in there. I'm being imprecise about this
because I've never seen one before. This isn't a big rack, just a single
heavy box fronted by an orange and brown PDP-8/e front panel. I assume
it's the processor itself.
Just be aware that PDP-8 cases were sold in the 1980s in the UK
by Display Electronics. They were empty of all the PDP-8 internals,
and intended as cases for your homebrew microcomputer. I think
they were originally used by Reuters, when they had PDP-8 boards
in them. A friend of mine had one, which he used as a case for
his Apple ][. I expect he still hs it.
--
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk