12 Aug
2006
12 Aug
'06
8:39 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Yep... the same hex-height board could be populated
(at the time of
manufacture) with 4kbit DRAMs as 16K or 32K or with 16kbit DRAMs as
128K (but you needed a KT8A to be able to address more than 32K). 16K
is ok for playing around, but by the end of the PDP-8/a lifecycle, there
were
enough machines in the world with a full 32K that a lot of interesting
software
came out that really wanted more than 16K (ADVENT, to name a famous
example).
So are there any more games like ADVENT for the PDP-8?
The last time I got to play with a real 8 was in the early
80's and ADVENTURE was *not* around for the PDP8/e.