Oscar makes one run of his PiDP-8/I kit about every month. The complete kit is only $165 plus $40 for shipping. I got the kit in September and it is easy to assemble if you know how to solder. It took me about 4 hours. The kit is based on SIMH running on a Raspberry PI. The front panel size is 60% of the original and the whole assembled system is only 2" deep so nicely fits into your bookshelf. No wiring other than power via an AC adapter is required. Your terminal sessions can be over Wifi or you can use USB to serial converters to connect real terminals. It is a very nice and very functional recreation of the PDP-8/I and includes OS/8 and TSS/8 disk images and even Spacewar ready to run.
Best regards Tom Hunter On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:29 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:01 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > On Nov 20, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Tom Uban via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org > > > > wrote: > > > > > > For those interested in a PDP-8 system but don't want the large > > size/weight and > > > maintenance issues, I built the full set of Spare Time Gizmos SBC6120 > > (integrated > > > PDP-8), FP6120 (front panel for SBC6120) and IOB6120 (Jim Kearney's > > multi-function > > > companion board) a number of years ago and would be willing to part > with > > them > > > for a reasonable offer. Here are related links: > > > > Does anyone know of anyone building them for sale? I don’t need a “real” > > PDP-8 in my life with all my other hardware (more Q-bus PDP-11, on the > > other hand…) but I’d love having *a* PDP-8, especially one that doesn’t > > require enormous amounts of power. > > > > — Chris > > > > Are.any pidp/8i 's left: > https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8-get-one > > > >