18 Jun
2013
18 Jun
'13
1:44 p.m.
On 06/18/2013 08:57 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I am curiouse as to why you claim that. I don't
have an 8/L, only an 8/E,
but while I will agree that the PDP8 is an elegannt machine I don't think
it's unique in that respect. There are plenty of other machines of the
same period with similar elegance to me.
FWIW. the programamble machine that I've worked on that I consider to be
the most elegant is the HP9100B calculator (never worked on a -A). That
machine is glorious inside.
Care to expand a little bit, I know next to nothing about early HP
calculators and computers.
One important aspect of the PDP-8 that makes it interesting to me is
that there is quite a bit of software available for the series.
/P