Which PDP-8 is this? (ebay: 261232211533)

18 Jun 2013

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   [E]ven a
fully-loaded PDP-8/E is pretty "useless" these days.  Why do you say that?
 A PDP8/E will do everything it could do when it
 was made.  And if you happen to do want to do such a task, it's as
 usegful as ever. 
Utility is also measured relative to a context, and the context now is
vastly different from what it was when an -8/e was new.  Almost all the
things an -8/e did can today be done better, in almost all respects,
with other equipment - its utility for almost all purposes is lower
than other, much cheaper (in sticker price, in space required, in
maintenance, in power draw, etc) devices.

Not quite all; each of those "almost"s is important.  But enough so
that I think `pretty "useless"' is, in general, fair.

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Which PDP-8 is this? (ebay: 261232211533)