And then there were three..

Through a generous donation the Rhode Island Computer Museum now has three PDP-8/S systems. The first PDP-8/S is a rack mount, S/N 517, and was donated earlier this year. It is operational, but still needs some more testing to insure that everything works OK. It does run FOCAL and Fortran, so I suspect that everything is OK. The second PDP-8/S is a desktop, S/N 857. The third PDP-8/S is a rack mount, S/N 537. Both were donated today. Both of these systems will need extensive cleaning and restoration. The rack mount system came with an OMD8S memory/data-break expansion chassis, S/N 96. The OMD8/S only has a single 4 KW core plane installed. During the week I will post pictures and an inventory of the two recent dontations on the RICM Warehouse WWW page. -- Michael Thompson