3 Feb
2009
3 Feb
'09
7:28 a.m.
Was it really that few? I know that some of the older
12-bit machines
were made in small quantities (like ~1000 -8/Ses), but I had no idea
that one could count LINC-8s in dozens.
Well, my only source is this:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp8/section-6.html
Which says 142 sales(!). And given its age and how few I've seen or
heard of it seems plausible.
Are you including the ones that Charlie Lasner has?
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sys.pdp8/browse_thread/thread/7f41af3087b0f15c/f40bf5d37d3f0720?lnk=raot>
I visited him about 15 years ago and saw at least one of them, along
with a whole lot of other stuff I'd never seen anywhere else (and I
own several intact R-series-logic machines - sorry... no pile of
module spares; I wish I did have extras).
Maybe. I was thinking of the Retrocomputing society of Rhode Island,
which I believe has one or two, but I have not confirmed that.
But now mr Lasner is on my list as well :)
I did a search for LINC-8 in the cctalk archives, and there are a quite
a few posts about it, so there might be some more around.
Thank you,
Pontus.