--- On Mon, 6/17/13, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
?
why does a pdp 8/L represent a "nice useless
computer"???
(from a newbie who has yet to score one)...
Indeed. They aren't very expandable, but even a fully-loaded PDP-8/E is pretty
"useless" these days. But that's not the point. I've often described
the 8/L as "the most classic computing goodness crammed into the smallest
package". Only the Nova can compete with it. Of course, these are aesthetic
judgements with much room for disagreement, thus I may have touched off another discussion
of what makes a classic computer "interesting" or "classic"...
--Bill