PDP8a popped up for auction

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Jul 23 15:08:39 2001

On July 23, Bill Pechter wrote:
> The 8a at least had separate instruction data and bus address leds.

  Yeah.

> As far as the 11/60 at Pennington... must've been after I left DEC's
> Field Service in Princeton... or I would've probably gotten sent there.
> I used to go to Mobil in Pennington a lot.

  Oh DEC would never have been called on this system...My friend and I
picked up the pdp11/60 when it was decommissioned from Beaver College;
got it for a song...and very *unofficially* (hey, I was 16) sold it to
Pennington and did the installation over a weekend. We got the deal
because my friend had been a student there.

             -Dave McGuire
Received on Mon Jul 23 2001 - 15:08:39 BST