11 May
2014
11 May
'14
11:15 p.m.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:16:08AM +0100, Dave wrote:
Folks,
Can any one tell me whats in a "PDP-8" Straight 8. So how many
logic boards, logic gates, transistors and diodes? Does any one also
have the CPU speed. Its just there is one in www.mosi.org.uk next to
a Ferranti Pegasus. I would like to be able to compare it with the
Pegasus to show how things moved on in the nine years between the
two machines. The poor PDP-8 is much neglected as its much smaller
and less impressive than the Pegasus, yet I am pretty sure it was
faster, cheaper and much more capable.
Dave
G4UGM
The other Dave (Gesswein) counted:
The backplanes contain 230 cards, approximately 10,148
diodes, 1409
transistors, 5615 resistors, and 1674 capacitors.
More here:
http://www.pdp8online.com/straight8/functional_restore.shtml
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