8s is rare?? We have one. Is there a an registry? Ed# smecc.org
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From: ben bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca
Date: 06/08/2015 12:05 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Front Panel Update
On 6/8/2015 4:30 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
yea Will... things that fit under the workbench can languish for 40
years... if it has to sit on top it may a a shorter lifespan Ed#
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Ok, where are the computers HOLDING UP THE WORKBENCH?
Ben.
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
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On 6/8/2015 4:18 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
It's pretty rare. I have one too.
I've seen and heard of more straight 8s than I have 8/S
PDP-8/Ss used to be quite rare, but they have been popping out of the
woodwork for some time now. I would venture to say they are now more
extant that
It's pretty rare. I have one too.
I've seen and heard of more straight 8s than I have 8/S
PDP-8/Ss used to be quite rare, but they have been popping out of the
woodwork for some time now. I would venture to say they are now more
extant that Straight-8s.
Small is survivability.
PDP-8/S was my
yea I have only seen the one 8S we got
whereas straight 8 back in the biz days 79 to 90 something had
2 plexi desktop straight 8 ( one we kept ser # 18 got from
stanford surplus stores w/ ato d rack too) and the other we sold to the guy
that
has museum near
I will have to dig out he small computer handbook from the Dec section
at smecc library and study up on it again! the brain cells are foggy!
another nice go with to display with 8s is the DEC logic trainer
We somehow ended up with a few of these... one goes next to a 8 the
I think you are refering to the micro processor series, or MPS:
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/dec_micro_panel.JPG
I have some marketing material but that is it. I've seen one go
on ebay.
/P
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:34:57PM +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote:
There is one thing I saw once
Is this appropriate for an SBC6120 or does that need different switch labels
...
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Smallwood
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About three months since I last announced anything. There have been
various development since, and I figured I should encourage people who
are using BQTCP/IP for RSX to upgrade to the latest release.
A short list of changes:
ICMP:
. ICMP packets accidentally lost the source IP address
On Jun 8, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com
wrote:
Yes several
The originals have rounded corners.
The address font differs slightly when superimposed.
The screening in mine is much chrisper than the old ones.
On 08/06/2015 13:21, Pontus Pihlgren
On 2015-06-08 07:50, ben wrote:
On 6/7/2015 11:08 PM, tony duell wrote:
That should be trivial. I've never laid hands on an RC25, but there
must be a microswitch that detects when a cartridge is installed, and
is accessible for bodging...?
Yes, and don't do it!
In every fixed/removeable
On Jun 8, 2015 8:21 AM, Pontus Pihlgren pon...@update.uu.se wrote:
Is there a way to tell your reproduction from an original?
/P
After looking at both of them, the typeface for the second line of text
does not match, and some of the font sizes seem a bit off, or maybe the
typefaces used are
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Ethan Dicks ethan.di...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Mike Ross tmfdm...@gmail.com wrote:
That should be trivial. I've never laid hands on an RC25, but there
must be a microswitch that detects when a cartridge is installed, and
is accessible
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Paul Koning paulkon...@comcast.net wrote:
On Jun 8, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Mike Ross tmfdm...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Ugh OK, I've never laid hands on one as I said; for some reason I
thought the cartridge on these was a sealed unit containing the heads,
like some
Is there a way to tell your reproduction from an original?
/P
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:19:41PM +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi All
Since I released the picture of the first 8/e panel on
Friday there has been a big response.
Its 12:45 local on Monday in the UK and I'm of to the
Hi All
Since I released the picture of the first 8/e panel on
Friday there has been a big response.
Its 12:45 local on Monday in the UK and I'm of to the silk screeners to
collect the rest of the first batch and to arrange for more
to be printed as soon as I get the blanks from
Suggestion: it’s a good practice in general for replicas to be marked
explictly as a replica. The marking can be very small and inconspicuous, but
it seems like good form to have one.
Yes, I was going to mention this as well. The trick (which is not hard
at all) is to make the marking
The RC25 was one of the last cartridge drives (before fixed drives came back
in small sizes and exploding
capacity), somewhat interesting because of its compact size, and very odd and
hard to use because the
designers threw in a fixed platter. Perhaps they thought that it was a good
Hi
I did consider that and as there will be more that the few I had planned.
I can do that. I thought I might call it a Replic8 or a Fake8 or Makan8
for the kit.
I am some what flattered that my humble efforts at artwork could be
mistaken for the real thing.
Thinking back some forty years I
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