Everyone here should read this.. I thought I'd seen everything. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Dec 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks &lt;ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Everyone here should read this.. I thought I'd seen everything.

...

--- John B &lt;dylanb(a)sympatico.ca&gt; wrote:
  BTW: Has anyone heard of a PDP-8/A500 ??? what is
that? 
It happens to be the first model I ever laid hands on... KK8A, KM8A, DKC8AA
(the standard -8/a stuff), 12-slot box (the 20-slot box was for stuff like
the PDP-8/a 620).  I am pretty sure (it's been a while) that the -8/a 500
has a core-capable power supply.  Lower stuff, like the -8/a 320, could only
...
 take MOS memory (MS8C, et al.)

I've only ever seen the 12-slot PDP-8/a boxes myself, but a couple of
flavors of them. 

I was told this mini was filled with core memory, has a bunch of RK05 packs,
an rx01 and another thing they called a "panel box"- expander?

...

-ethan

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