Repairing core (was Re: How scarce (valuable) is core for the PDP-8?)

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Mon Apr 19 17:52:37 1999

At 03:27 PM 4/19/99 -0700, Sellam wrote:
>Unfortunately, my rant is not going to stop the lame-o's selling it from
>hyping it up as some cool collectable, and it's not going to stop the
>techno-wannabees from buying it to stick on their wall.

Recent experience,

Them: "We have a PDP 8/F."
Me: "Does it have any memory."
Them: "We think so, there are six boards in the back."
Me: (could be good, two core stacks..) "What are the numbers on the top?"
Them: "Three are labelled G104 and the other three are labelled G227."
Me: "No, you don't have any memory for this machine."

--Chuck
[For the record a 4K core stack in an 8 consists of a G104, G227, and H220
card. It was the H220 card that had the actual core "mats" on it. The H220
card is often "liberated" from PDP-8's as a trophy/display item.]
Received on Mon Apr 19 1999 - 17:52:37 BST