12 Dec
2000
12 Dec
'00
11:04 a.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Marvin wrote:
I know, and perhaps I should have put a smiley after that statement. I am
just amazed at the amount of mis-information that gets passed around on
auctions such as that one. I still have the manuals and engineering drawings
for the PDP-16, and I wouldn't mind getting one if only for old times sake
... but not for $500+ dollars!
I just looked at Ebay and found out that the PDP
16/M is a roll-your-own PDP
8 or PDP 11. I sure wish DEC had let me know this information when I took
the maintenance classes on it at the Maynard training facility. Here I
always thought it was just a glorified solid state controller. We could have
saved some money instead of buying the 11/05 and 11/45s :). The URL is:
It *is* a glorified solid state controller, and it is *NOT* a "Super
MiniComputer". There is an example design for an *almost* PDP-8, but
AFAIK they have not been used to implement complete PDP-8s or -11s, and
would not really be very good at that.