[Milsurplus] Re PDP8

[J. Forster]

I am skeptical about the guidance systems from missiles being very much use as
general purpose computers. For example, much of the Apollo software was
programmed on a Jacquard loom, by weaving the wires through the cores. Not
exactly flexible.

-John

philip wrote:

> Bob Camp was asking where the PDP8s went to.
> They were sent to the surplus market along time ago. From what I have
> heard, computer hobbests were purchasing them before 1975
>
> I have also heard that , computer hobbests were using the guidence system
> from missles. This was before the Intel 8080 was brought out.
>
> Going entirely from memory, which is not to good.
>
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