PDP-8 available in NJ

From: Jack Peacock <peacock_at_simconv.com>
Date: Tue Jun 16 17:31:51 1998

> What's with all this rhetorical nonsense about going on long treks to
acquire PDP-8s? Here's a real -8 for some lucky resident of New Jersey.


Long treks? I thought it was only a few hundred miles. Around here
(Mojave desert) that won't even get you to the next town. Heck, in the
right direction that won't even get you out of the county.

There are plenty of surplus PDP-8s and PDP-11's only a hundred miles
from here. Practically new, but one catch: Slightly used....only nuked
once.

As a bit of trivia, PDPs (8s/10s/11s) were the preferred machine at the
nuclear test site in Nevada. They were used for (expendable)
instrumentation very close to ground zero. Quite a few were converted
into plasma.
        Jack Peacock
Received on Tue Jun 16 1998 - 17:31:51 BST