27 Dec
2001
27 Dec
'01
11:43 a.m.
--- Kevin Murrell <kevin(a)xpuppy.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
The boards were made specially for a pharmaceutical
company in England.
They were using several PDP8E in a Kent processes control system. They
began to experience problems with the core memory cards, and had these
produced specially to extend the life of the system.
That makes sense. *Somebody* paid a lot of money for them. It's
gratifying to see Linux drivers for the PC side.
Some more information is on
http://www.ps8computing.co.uk/PDP8/ram_board.htm
Kevin Murrell
Nice page! I haven't seen this guy's stuff before. Makes me want to
go out and start fixing my pair of Straight-8s (need *much* cleaning
first - they used to run a typesetter at a newspaper).
I wasn't envisioning a card _that_ fancy, but it'll do. I'd be happy
with a simple, simple RAM card.
-ethan
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