PDP8/e programmers consoles

[Charles Dickman]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:59 PM, allison via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>> Has anyone ever seen a PDP8/i style console for the PDP8/e? Looking at
>> the way the PDP8/e console functions, it should be possible to time
>> multiplex all the register to the data bus so they are all visible at
>> once when the machine is halted.
> No and can't!   The 8i (nor the 8L) was not omnibus.  The boards to make

I know the 8/I panel won't work with an 8/e. My question was if there
was a special seen in the wild that had all the register values like
the 8/i did since the panel interface clearly supports it.

> Allison
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>> -chuck
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