--- Kevin Murrell <kevin_at_xpuppy.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> The boards were made specially for a pharmaceutical company in England.
> They were using several PDP8E in a Kent processes control system. They
> began to experience problems with the core memory cards, and had these
> produced specially to extend the life of the system.
That makes sense. *Somebody* paid a lot of money for them. It's
gratifying to see Linux drivers for the PC side.
> Some more information is on
> http://www.ps8computing.co.uk/PDP8/ram_board.htm
>
> Kevin Murrell
Nice page! I haven't seen this guy's stuff before. Makes me want to
go out and start fixing my pair of Straight-8s (need *much* cleaning
first - they used to run a typesetter at a newspaper).
I wasn't envisioning a card _that_ fancy, but it'll do. I'd be happy
with a simple, simple RAM card.
-ethan
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Received on Thu Dec 27 2001 - 11:43:04 GMT