PCB vs perfboard construction economics (was Re: "New" PDP-8) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Apr 2002

From: Ethan Dicks &lt;erd_6502(a)yahoo.com&gt;
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   I like the
PDP-8 but am unhappy that a 12/24 cpu never hit the
 monolithic chip market. 
That would have been fun.

> Well I don't but remember with out the proper I/O a pdp-8 is NO FUN. 
Yes, and the big highlight of the PDP-8 (omnibus) was the relative ease
of doing one off IO.  It was truly easy to WW a quad card to do most 
anything.

Allison