WTT: MITS Altair 8800 for DEC PDP-8

From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Sat Jan 3 01:06:48 1998

> Three more saved from the brink...
>
> > Also a Linc, which I'm ashamed to
> > admit I'm much less familiar with though I have seen mention of it on
> > some of the other web pages. (I'll be researching that!)
>
> A LINC!!???!?!?!
>
Like I said....I'd heard of it...didn't realize that only 40 some were
actually ever built. I *WILL* be grabbing that for certain! =-)

It sounds like I can grab

3 - PDP-8/i
1 - PDP-11/34A
1 - Linc or Linc-8 (wasn't clear which)
 
> If it is an honest to goodness original LINC (made by DEC or someone
> else), get that before the PDP-8/Is! They are incredibly rare. A bit later
> DEC merged a LINC with a Straight-8 to make a LINC-8, also a very rare
> machine (I know of three survivors of a little over a hundred made, all
> around 1967). Those in turn begat the PDP-12s, esentially PDP-8/Is merged
> with LINCs.

I'll be grabbing it but I don't want to act TOO excited about it to the
guy I'm getting it from. He offered it all to me for free. I think I'll
take him a bottle of champagne to share with his wife or something. =-)

Wirehead - Anthony Clifton

PS: Notice I haven't WHERE I'm getting the stuff from. I'll just keep
THAT little secret until they're safely in my basement. ;-D
Received on Sat Jan 03 1998 - 01:06:48 GMT