16 Jun
1998
16 Jun
'98
1:31 p.m.
What's with all this rhetorical nonsense about
going on long treks to
acquire PDP-8s? Here's a real -8 for some lucky resident
of New Jersey.
Long treks? I thought it was only a few hundred miles. Around here
(Mojave desert) that won't even get you to the next town. Heck, in the
right direction that won't even get you out of the county.
There are plenty of surplus PDP-8s and PDP-11's only a hundred miles
from here. Practically new, but one catch: Slightly
used....only nuked
once.
As a bit of trivia, PDPs (8s/10s/11s) were the preferred machine at the
nuclear test site in Nevada. They were used for (expendable)
instrumentation very close to ground zero. Quite a few were converted
into plasma.
Jack Peacock