4 Nov
1999
4 Nov
'99
7:21 a.m.
One other thing.... you mentioned you wanted to add more memory to one of
your straight 8s. I have two studies done by the McMaster University on
building core memory expanders for the 8,8/s using straight 8 memory (8/s,8
used the same kinds) and some flip chips. You might want to kill one of your
straight 8s for the memory and ebay/keep the rest of it. I am picking up at
least one straight-8 over the next 3 weeks and if I end up with two (looks
that way) I have the one sold (have to quickly restore it first) and the
other I will butcher for memory for my 8/s. A straight-8 still isn't worth
as much whole as it is in parts.. Ugh.. You might want to think about doing
that as it is nice to keep the same boards/technology in a transistor
computer like that.
I remember that particular 8s from when I was an undergraduate. I
did my undergraduate degree at McMaster, at a time when they were
still running PDP 8 machines. That probably ages me :-). At one
point it was a server for a group of DG Novas (I think the
original ones).
--
Dr. Mark Green mark(a)cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada