18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
4:59 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:56:05PM -0700, David Griffith wrote:
Who was the one with the wacky idea of building a Straight-Eight
PDP8 using flipchip cards populated with surface-mount parts? I
have a hankering to run some numbers about it.
I counted the components during my straight 8 restoration. Information is
in the second paragraph on page URL below along with spreadsheet used.
Spreadsheet also has DF32 part counts. Survey has margin of error of +- 1%.
http://www.pdp8online.com/straight8/functional_restore.shtml