[GreenKeys] Teletype machine values...

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OMG!  Christian Yes...
someone that  sees as  I  do!
 
The total  coolness of this is  indeed the completeness of   all the  go 
withs... just that  set of manuals   is a prize  itself.
 
the strangest  PDP-8  based  box I ever had and I  wish I still did  was  a 
terminal like   device   case  with an omnibus in it and a relay logic 
symbol keyboard.   it  would  boot to an eprom  board... it  was a real   DEC  
product...   yes... rare... yes.. unusual...  but   during the  day  got  
consumed as  omnibuss boards to   keep other machines  running.   tried to  
find a  market  for it  intact  but  failed.
 
HERE IS A TREAT!    We  hosted  the photo  shoot  for   the  PHX Business 
Journal's  CIO or   the year awards issue  They  said  some nice things  
about  us  in the editors  intro  etc... but    you may  want to look at the  
large  cover picture  being the  Fender  Guitar CIO's  shoulder  you can see 
our  serial #18  PDP 8  first model.   also look on  page  18.   We sure  all 
had a fun morning!
 
_http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/pdf/CIOs%202012%20Final.pdf_ 
(http://assets.bizjournals.com/phoenix/pdf/CIOs%202012%20Final.pdf) 
 
for those in the  computer  know....  there is a  wide  visual of  lots of 
other things in that  glassed in    display..   We like making these glassed 
in areas and have many of  them ... do not have to  dust... and keeps the 
sticky finders  off the  knobs.... ( like  my model 15  crank that alas was 
in the open   and  got  stolen...... hey...  yes  this is another  pea  for a 
model 15  Crank so we can advance the  platten!)
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC   _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/24/2012 8:20:31 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
captainkirk359 at gmail.com writes:

As has  been said that's a PDP-8/f not a PDP-8/L. And screw the Model
33 ASR, the  PDP-8 is where the real value is at.

First, it's an OMNIBUS model of 8,  so that makes the price go upwards.
Next it has a TU56 DECtape drive, which  makes it instantly popular
since you get a "disk" drive (DECtape acts like  a slow disk drive), so
that's an even large price. And finally... it's in  one of the "weird"
colour schemes, not the standard orange/yellow, with a  blinkenlights
panel (not the turnkey OEM panels) so that also ups the  value.

Plus, you get a VT-5x (can't tell if it's a 50 or a 52) and a  33ASR.
And a full manual and papertape software set.


Once fixed  up, that machine makes a perfect -- and I mean *PERFECT* --
functional,  usable classic minicomputer system. (All you need is OS/8
on a DECtape and  a copy of BASIC, SPACWR.BA and CHESS.SV and you can
show off to all the  classic computing  hobbyists.)


Cheers,
Christian






P.S. I  wish I have a few thousand dollars laying  around...





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