>
> One other thing.... you mentioned you wanted to add more memory to one of
> your straight 8s. I have two studies done by the McMaster University on
> building core memory expanders for the 8,8/s using straight 8 memory (8/s,8
> used the same kinds) and some flip chips. You might want to kill one of your
> straight 8s for the memory and ebay/keep the rest of it. I am picking up at
> least one straight-8 over the next 3 weeks and if I end up with two (looks
> that way) I have the one sold (have to quickly restore it first) and the
> other I will butcher for memory for my 8/s. A straight-8 still isn't worth
> as much whole as it is in parts.. Ugh.. You might want to think about doing
> that as it is nice to keep the same boards/technology in a transistor
> computer like that.
>
I remember that particular 8s from when I was an undergraduate. I
did my undergraduate degree at McMaster, at a time when they were
still running PDP 8 machines. That probably ages me :-). At one
point it was a server for a group of DG Novas (I think the
original ones).
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 15:21:48 GMT