17 Nov
2001
17 Nov
'01
9:21 a.m.
On Nov 17, 16:51, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well, as long as "dead" can be defined as
"salespeople don't want to
sell you a new one". For me, it can't. I can pick up the phone and
buy PDP8 equipment from a commercial vendor. How long ago was THAT
architecture discontinued?
Real Soon Now, according to people who still have them on support. Or
about 1995, (yes, that's two '9's there) according to the copyright on the
PCB etch of the memory board in the PDP-8/E I recently acquired :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York