22 Nov
2020
22 Nov
'20
5:40 p.m.
Oscar makes one run of his PiDP-8/I kit about every month. The complete kit
is only $165 plus $40 for shipping.
I got the kit in September and it is easy to assemble if you know how to
solder. It took me about 4 hours.
The kit is based on SIMH running on a Raspberry PI.
The front panel size is 60% of the original and the whole assembled system
is only 2" deep so nicely fits into your bookshelf.
No wiring other than power via an AC adapter is required.
Your terminal sessions can be over Wifi or you can use USB to serial
converters to connect real terminals.
It is a very nice and very functional recreation of the PDP-8/I and
includes OS/8 and TSS/8 disk images and even Spacewar ready to run.
Best regards
Tom Hunter
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:29 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:01 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk
<
cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Nov 20, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Tom Uban via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org
wrote:
with
For those interested in a PDP-8 system but don't want the large
size/weight
and
maintenance issues, I built the full set of Spare
Time Gizmos SBC6120
(integrated
PDP-8), FP6120 (front panel for SBC6120) and
IOB6120 (Jim Kearney's
multi-function
> companion board) a number of years ago and would be willing to part them
Are.any pidp/8i 's left:
https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8-get-one
for a reasonable offer. Here are related links:
Does anyone know of anyone building them for sale? I don?t need a ?real?
PDP-8 in my life with all my other hardware (more Q-bus PDP-11, on the
other hand?) but I?d love having *a* PDP-8, especially one that doesn?t
require enormous amounts of power.
? Chris