14 Jun
2005
14 Jun
'05
5:22 p.m.
[PDP-8/a for home use] The starting price would have
easily been
right at home with what Altair and Imsais were sitting at
I think that's the right ballpark - and the 8/a actually could have
been a year or two earlier, hitting in the early 70's instead of
the mid 70's.
The $400 that Intel wanted for an 8080A + the support chips they
wanted you to buy will buy a lot of TTL!
I suspect that the 8/a and Omnibus would've seen a "shrink" to
higher density PCB's. As it was, DEC sold 8/a/e/f's up through
the mid 80's and never really increased the density of TTL chips
on those boards. Maybe the savings from such a shrink really
weren't very big?
Tim.