2 Nov
2016
2 Nov
'16
10:10 a.m.
On Tue, 11/1/16, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
? Also, some IBM publications (where I'm more
familiar with their models) had some photos
of machines that probably were in-house
prototypes that were quite different than the
production version.
Along the same lines, the picture in the original PDP-8
manual was of a machine that had a front panel that
looked more like the PDP-5 panel than the one shipped
on the 8s. Given how close the machines were in
architecture, it wouldn't be surprising for a prototype.
As it turns out, I saw the picture in the manual a few
years before I ever saw a real straight-8. To this day,
the real straight-8s look a little "wrong" to me.
BLS