Busses vs no busses

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue May 9 13:50:33 2000

Allison wrote:
> Now that's a cool hack. I nelieve one of the stadiums used a PDP-8 to
> control a graphic scoreboard.

I suspect a lot of them did.

In 1983, Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas received
a donation of a PDP-8/e system with third-party RK05 clones, which had been
retired from running the scoreboard at one of the stadiums across the
border in Missouri. I was tasked with trying to figure out some practical
use for the machine. None of my proposals were accepted; admittedly they
weren't really very practical, since by that time microcomputers were
much more suited to most educational needs. The machine was apparently
scrapped. :-(
Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 13:50:33 BST