19 Mar
2018
19 Mar
'18
7:02 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:59 PM, allison via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I know the 8/I panel won't work with an 8/e. My question was if there
was a special seen in the wild that had all the register values like
the 8/i did since the panel interface clearly supports it.
Has anyone
ever seen a PDP8/i style console for the PDP8/e? Looking at
the way the PDP8/e console functions, it should be possible to time
multiplex all the register to the data bus so they are all visible at
once when the machine is halted.
No and can't! The 8i (nor the 8L) was not
omnibus. The boards to make Allison
-chuck