Front Panel Update

[Johnny Billquist]

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:
>>
>>
>> 8s is rare??   We have one.  Is there a an registry?    Ed#  smecc.org
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>


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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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