[Milsurplus] Buying in Canada

[Greg Mijal]

PDP-8?

Years ago when I worked for Motorola in Feenix Arizona there was a diode, 
manual test station that ran with a PDP-8.  The program loaded via teletype 
tape and every time the computer had to be reset for another diode line. 
The girl had to re-load the program via the TTY tape.  All the other test 
stations were running PDP-11's. This was in 1982.  I don't think Moto threw 
anything away that could get their silicon out the door.  They just shipped 
it to Korea and the Philipines.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Pewitt" <garypewitt at centurytel.net>
To: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at arrl.net>
Cc: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Buying in Canada


> Ray and Mike, I was given a PDP-8 quite a few years ago.  It had an 8K
> "core " memory and was used for industrial machinery control.  I played
> around with it for a while when I was in my antique computer phase.  I
> eventually gave it to a friend who absolutely refused to use any
> computer more advanced than a  CP/M machine.  He used it with a Mod 28
> teletype for a terminal.  At that time I had several Chromemco Z80 rack
> mount computers with S100 bus racks.  They were also given to me by an
> ex dealer and were unsold stock.  I also got a Chromemco Chromix machine
> (Chromix was their version of Unix) with an 80 Meg hard drive and color
> monitor that would have cost well over $80,000.00.  The hard drive
> weighed about 45 lbs.
> Alas they are all gone.  I still have my original Exidy Sorcerer with
> 48K of ram and three 600K floppies.  How things have changed. :-)
> 73  Gary  N9ZSV
>
>
>
>
> On 4/1/2011 12:03 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Ray wrote:
>>
>>> Was talking with someone about buying a old PDP-11 computer system...
>>
>> The DEC PDP-11 series was a system that I dreamed (but not seriously)
>> about owning 40 years ago.  One of my labs at Ga. Tech in 1972 used
>> that system.  There were many variations possible, but IIRC the one
>> I would have liked was something like $20,000 1972 dollars ($100,000
>> today).
>>
>> I still wouldn't mind coming across an old 1977 Heath H-11 system with
>> floating point capability.  It was functionally a PDP-11/40 in a much
>> smaller (and at "only" $1300 for the basic CPU, cheaper) package than
>> most DEC PDP-11 configurations.  Who could ever use up all of the 32K
>> of 16-bit RAM and 256K 8-inch floppy storage that a complete H-11 system
>> offered?
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
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