It appears that I'm the only person on this list who doesn't want a
PDP-8/E! Thanks for all the responses -- too many to respond to
individually. I managed to get the PDP-8/E in my car yesterday, with a bit
of huffing and puffing. A new home has now been found for it, where I am
told it will be put on display at least annually.
I was surprised that I didn't know that we had one on site before it was
disposed of because I'm always hunting around the labs for interesting
kit. It appears to have been part of some automated test equipment made by
GenRad. There were GenRad boxes in the skip and the 8/E has some "General
Radio" stickers on it.
This morning, I've found two PDP-8/M boxes. One of them is populated, and
the other one appears to be almost empty (so it's now just a pretty front
panel, or a source of switches for repairing the other one).
I've put some photos of the 8/E and the two 8/Ms on a web site. I was
going to do the flickr thing but I'm trying to do real work as well, so I
apologise for the pics being uncropped and rather large.
http://hisdeedsaredust.com/pdp/
You'll see two pictures of my storage unit as it was at lunchtime. This
needs to be clear by the end of the month. Eek!
If you'd like either or both of the 8/Ms (bearing in mind, as I said, that
only one of them has any boards in), make me an offer. You will have to
come and collect them from Crawley, so please don't ask me to ship them.