27 Nov
2001
27 Nov
'01
5:16 a.m.
Phil Guerney wrote:
At a charity book sale I turned up this book* which promised to "turn an
ordinary electronics technician into a computer maintenance specialist". And
what a wide open field it was - as it says in Chapter 1:
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The book used as an example of a "Typical Small
Computer" the Computer
Automation PDC 808. The picture of the roughly Altair/Imsai sized box was
actually labelled "PDC 808 Controller". The CCC list says this box was
released in May 1968 (4K of 8-bit core) and there are just a couple of
references to it on the Web I can find, and none from recent years.
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Well put it on line as I expect then we would know alot more about this
computer and book.
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
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