PDP-8/S
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COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Sat Jun 13 03:55:24 CDT 2015
That is a beauty!
You moved all that gear from UK to USA?
In a message dated 6/12/2015 2:26:10 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
tmfdmike at gmail.com writes:
I have one, restored, was running when stored but not powered up in
some considerable time.
Serial number unknown; IIRC correctly the tag with the serial number
was missing so may remain unknown.
Obtained from a collector called Erik in... Netherlands I think, circa
2004... who got it from John Bradatanu... IIRC I traded a TU56, a
pdp-8/L, and some other bits, for the 8/S and a working VT05.. see pic
on this page:
http://www.corestore.org/coremove.htm
Pics on that page are interesting, as it's the only time around 90% of
the DEC portion of the Corestore collection has all been lined up and
visible in the same place at the same time!
Oh 8/m has been discussed in front panel talk... here's a nice pic of
mine: http://www.corestore.org/pdp8m-1.jpg
Mike
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
>>> I know of 17 PDP-8/S systems, including four at the RICM.
>>
>> Not everyone wants their collections to be public information but:
>
>
> If somebody were to try to make a "complete" list, it would make sense to
> provide variable levels of anonymity, such as name but not contact info,
> state but no name, email but no other contact, etc. If designed well,
that
> could be managed by a full information form in which it is easy, and
> acknowledged to be acceptable, to fill in only items that are intended
to be
> public.
>
> Prob'ly some people would be more willing to discuss what they have IFF
they
> aren't opening themselves to theft risk, and/or a deluge of "I'd like to
> buy".
>
> NOTE: I do not currently have ANY PDP stuff, so I am only speculating
about
> what others would like.
>
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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