19 Dec
2005
19 Dec
'05
6:21 p.m.
On Dec 19 2005, 11:26, Jules Richardson wrote:
That made we wonder... what's the oldest
*operational* digital
machine owned
by anyone on this list? Although I suppose it's
hard to define
'machine' -
something with RAM, I/O in some form, and at least one
CPU (what the
heck do
you call a CPU when it's no longer central?)
My PDP-8/E from about 1972 won't even be close to the oldest, but it is
running. Running right now, in fact, though I think it has an
interrupt problem, with an RX02 and an ASR33 (which is probably older
than the -8 is).
Apart from that I have a Motorola MK6800D2 from 1975, a PDP-11/03 from
1975 or '76, and a KIM-1 designed in 1975 but probably made about 1977.
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