16 Dec
2007
16 Dec
'07
10:10 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:41:27 +0100, Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel wrote:
> In attempt to get back on topic, When working with
the ECRM 8400,
ECRM is certainly on topic, my PDP8/e was used in first
ECRM machine, an OCR scanner.
Used a laser and a fotocell, and plenty of additional Omnibus boards.
I worked on the pdp8e basce scanners a few times, my only experiance with
them was to toggle in a diagonistics utility, and align the optical bed.
Those scanners used Behive terminals with 8008's in them.
I scavaged and rebuilt one that had a shipping mishap to use on
my SDK80 single board. Most of my time was spent tweeking 8400's
in the field, trying to make pressmen hapy with our raged dots
before I moved on to a signetics 2650 based project.
Sure wish I still had the behive terminal.
later
Bob