Computer Technician's Handbook (1971) and Computer Automation PDC 808 (1968)

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Tue Nov 27 10:16:15 2001

Phil Guerney wrote:
>
> At a charity book sale I turned up this book* which promised to "turn an
> ordinary electronics technician into a computer maintenance specialist". And
> what a wide open field it was - as it says in Chapter 1:
<snip>
> The book used as an example of a "Typical Small Computer" the Computer
> Automation PDC 808. The picture of the roughly Altair/Imsai sized box was
> actually labelled "PDC 808 Controller". The CCC list says this box was
> released in May 1968 (4K of 8-bit core) and there are just a couple of
> references to it on the Web I can find, and none from recent years.
<cut>
Well put it on line as I expect then we would know alot more about this
computer and book.
-- 
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's -- 
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Received on Tue Nov 27 2001 - 10:16:15 GMT

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