Am zondag, 03.07.05, um 16:09 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Joe R.:
I spent a big part of yesterday sorting out the DEC
cards that I've
been
picking up the last couple of weeks. This morning I photographed SOME
of
the PDP-8 cards. Take a look
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/> there's definitely
some
odd stuff there! This is just a small part of the ones that I got.
I'll add
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If anyone wants to
take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
The ECRM cards you've got are hardware speedups for OCR scanning.
Yes PDP8's were used for OCR !
Some ECRM cards are very usefull, but those aren't.
Nevertheless I have all info on those boards should you want do do
something with them.
ECRM has a two card 24x80 VDU option and a multi-io ( RS232, PPT,
printer) all one one omnibus card.
That are the truly usefull ones.
btw ECRM is still in business...
Jos Dreesen