9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
11:16 a.m.
Plenty of info on them, plenty of software, lots of people have them.
From my experience, it's easy to get frustrated
looking for parts and
assistance for other machines - this isn't the case with
DEC gear - I've
even known many people to get bitten by the platform simply by word of
mouth.
Just look at 11/23 and 11/73 boxes, they're practically as common as candy.
VERY rarely does a month go by where Ebay does not have a PDP11 up for sale.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:55 PM
To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Value of a PDP/8?
- Available software: Partly because of the
availiability
of the > hardware, there's a lot of software out there. So
when you > get one up and running, you generally can do more
than look > at the blinkin' lights (though that's worthwhile
in itself--much > more soothing that a lot of other things).
DEC computers have literally two orders of magnitude more
software titles that still exist than most other systems. The
closest runners up are HP and Data General, though CHM has
almost no DG software.
It is really sad how little software from other vendors has
survived, and beleive me, I've been beating the bushes trying
to find it!