Ah! the old 8S ....thinking back on it this 8S was from a site we
were actually paid to haul stuff away from as the land lord had the
building rented to a new tenant. Date? had to be in 1981 or 82..
we also got a bunch of CDC washing machine early disk drives that were
6 megs or 10 megs that had 6 platters? and truckloads of old tape
readers junk power supplies..
I remember trying to use it but alas to no avail... I would toggle in
the boot and go look at it and it was all nonsense when I would read
the display back. probably bad core drivers!?
All this talk has me curious about it again... I will have to pull it
out!
a! the old days! Ed#
In a message dated 6/8/2015 4:02:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca writes:
PDP-8/S was my first computer, purchased for five
bucks from a guy I
met at a hamfest. That was thirty years ago, and started me on this
whole computer history path. It is temperamental, but still works.
--
Will