23 Jun
2015
23 Jun
'15
5:24 p.m.
well how many transistors does our table top straight pdp-8 have?!
In a message dated 6/23/2015 4:26:38 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cclist at sydex.com writes:
On 06/23/2015 04:11 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
When it's done, I hope he mounts it all on a
black rectangular table with
20 shiny metal legs on each the opposing longer sides.
I seem to remember that the Packard-Bell PB250 used only about 400
transistors. (Magnetostrictive delay line memory). Lotsa diodes.
So not totally out of the question, even today.
--Chuck