14 Apr
2014
14 Apr
'14
11:53 p.m.
Apparently you have before you an RKS8E. Here are mentions
of the one by CJL, as quoted by Andy Valencia in 2011:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.sys.pdp8/YbOJHAUXjWA/06Z0G8_PGVkJ
http://www.freag.net/en/t/3y8t8/rk8e_and_simh
There also seem to be some diagnostics and stuff floating around.
I gather the word count board lets you read without interleave for
faster performance. There's also a change to support PDP-11
style drive addressing (i.e., more drives).
It's all news to me -- I had never heard of it.
Vince
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From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 10:15 PM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Subject: DEC RK8E
So I have this DEC RK8E board set - and it has an
extra card. The
normal set is M7104, M7105, and M7106 - but this one has M7107 (called
"WORD COUNT" on the etch) attached to a very official DEC looking
cable harness with the connecting blocks.
I thought the M7107 went with the RK07, and I thought the RK07 was
never attached to PDP-8 systems.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
And I still want a couple of RK07s.
--
Will