13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
7:50 p.m.
Has anyone estimated the physical size? A real
PDP-8/S has about 1000
transistors and a lot more passives than that, not counting external
things like a TTY interface (besides serializing the ALU, that's one
of the ways they shoehorned Straight-8 technology into such a tiny
box).
My PSP-8/s is one of the oddball hybrid machines, and if DEC did a
major mechanical redesign, I bet they could have matched what we could
do with SMT. The hybrid Flip Chips have acres of bare PCB real estate.
--
Will