Peripheral stuff (was: Which pdp8...)

On 23.06.2013 17:05, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: Oh that's a good point. I want to extend your statement to most of the vintage computers I came in touch with. I think that it's important to keep and get running strange peripheral stuff that was used with the old computers. I have several unknown Omnibus cards which did something I don't know. They seem to be close to some military stuff. Or "better" scientific stuff. I also have a Camac controller for the Unibus. It's made by "DEC special systems" and has about four or five rows of wirewrap sockets (dual flip chip modules). I have no software for it. But I have a set of HUGE drawings. But no idea how to scan them. With my Honeywell H316 I got an RTP rack and an RTP bus debugging front panel. But no interface to the H316. This stuff could be attached to any computer to control nuclear powerplants and other sensitive machinery (rtp still makes the stuff and has a website). One problem with the second source stuff is that it's more difficult to get documentation for it. So archiving documentation for very rare or probably non-existent hardware should be given some priority over the stuff that everybody has (speaking of redundant piles of pdp11 and pdp8 documentation). Kind regards Philipp :-) --