PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

Tony Duell wrote: Interesting question. Are we limited to production machines? For me, prototypes actually seem to hold more interest - it's fascinating to see how a prototype evolved into a final product (or how bits of it were re-used in other products), or to see from the various hardware hacks which bits the designers were having trouble making work. Oddball architectures appeal, too - parallel / multiprocessor systems, those which use a secondary processor for bootstrap / monitoring, those which use an uncommon CPU. Then there's graphics-heavy systems - I can always appreciate (and relate to) something with a lot of attached graphics hardware. I'm not too fussy I suppose - I don't tend to go after specific machines, but just see what shows up. Having said that I would *love* a Connection Machine CM2, although I probably wouldn't know what to do with it - but you can never had too many blinkenlights :-) Now that I have the space for it, I do really want to find something *big* to play with - not necessarily rare or anything, but a few cabinets of mini or mainframe would be fun to screw around with (maybe a PDP-11 and some storage / I/O would be nice, then I could perhaps understand what all the fuss is about DEC machines :-) cheers Jules