DEC M8350 - KA8E posibus interface

On 6/20/05, Joe R. <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote: Forgot to answer this - MSC-8 hex MOS memory cards are handy - if they are 1/2 populated with 4Kbit chips, they are 16KW, fully populated with 4Kbit chips they are 32KW. If you happen to find the same card with 16Kbit (4116) chips, that's a whopping 128KW. You'll need a KT8A to address it, another late model card of limited use - RTS/8 used it, and I am pretty sure there was a RAM disk driver for OS/8 to use the upper 96KW as storage. As Al said, the RL8A is handy, as are RX8Es. Beyond that, most quad OMNIBUS card sets are handy and useful, especially the RK8E. It kind of depends on what you want to do with a PDP-8, but memory and disk are among the more necessary options for a base machine, followed by printer and communications interfaces. -ethan