Front Panel Update - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Jun 2015

I will have to  dig out he small computer handbook from  the  Dec  section 
at  smecc library  and  study up  on it  again!  the  brain cells are foggy!

another nice  go with to display with  8s   is the DEC  logic  trainer
We somehow ended up  with a few of these... one   goes   next to a 8 the 
other in  toys robots and trainers  display   and  one for offsite   which  
leaves one extra   for  trade!

In a message dated 6/8/2015 2:20:24 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
bqt at update.uu.se writes:

Not so  much "serial bus" as just "serial". Everything is serial in
the 
machine,  as far as I understand.
Not sure how much of a bus it got.

Johnny

On 2015-06-08 22:59, COURYHOUSE at aol.com  wrote:
...
  yea... poor  8 s  was  20 microsecond   cycle  
time....
 the  S  stood  for serial  buss  as  I remember  it.
 Ed#  _www.smecc.org_  (http://www.smecc.org)

 In a message dated 6/8/2015  1:09:31 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
 pontus at Update.UU.SE  writes:

 Quite  rare the PDP-8 faq says 1024 made. And  given how slow it
 was, I suppose  people didn't hold on to  it.

 /P

 On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at   12:26:07PM -0700, couryhouse wrote:
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> 8s is  rare??   We have one.  Is there a an registry?     Ed#  smecc.org
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> Sent from my Verizon  Wireless 4G  LTE smartphone
>
> -------- Original  message --------
>   From: ben  <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
> Date: 06/08/2015  12:05   PM  (GMT-07:00)
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>  Subject: Re:  Front Panel Update
>
> On 6/8/2015  12:28 PM, Rod Smallwood  wrote:
>> Theres an 8/f which  replaced the 8/e and has a similar  front panel  with
...
 >>  extra markings
>> The 8/m - OEM no  front  panel
>> The 8/I has different front panel
>>  The  8/A is a totally different box  altogether
>>
>> The 8/e  was the big seller  with thousands shipped
>>
> The 8/s was a  small  seller with 10's of computers shipped.
> I got to play with   both.
> Ben.
>
> 

-- 
Johnny  Billquist                  ||  "I'm on a bus
||   on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se         ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!   ||   tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol