You might want to check out the following project if you want to build your
own small PDP-8. David Conroy has implemented a PDP-8i in an FPGA.
http://surfin.spies.com/~dgc/pdp8x/
I might have some info on the 6100, I'll have to try and remember. I've got
databooks from them and I believe Harris that list it.
Zane
>
> I think it used unobtainium type RAM and ROM, being
> all early Intersil CMOS, so it might be very difficult
> to make an "authentic" one today even if you had a
> 6100. The 6100 was, given my limited knowledge, harder
> to make truly PDP8/e compatible than the later 6120.
> I've looked around for a ROM listing or front panel
> code for the 6100/Intercept with no luck.
>
>
>
>
> --- "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw_at_mesanet.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > --- Mike <dogas_at_bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I just had to nominate the Intersil Intercept
> > Jr. to the early laptop
> > > > catagory, Runs on batteries, fits in a lap.
> > > >
> > > > ;) - Mike: dogas_at_bellsouth.net
> > >
> > > Are there plans out there anywhere? I doubt I'll
> > ever run across
> > > a real one. They looked kinda cool back when I
> > was a kid, but at
> > > the time, I didn't understand what it meant to be
> > PDP-8-instruction-
> > > set compatible (i.e., the implications of it, not
> > the literal sense
> > > of "compatible").
> > >
> > > It had, IIRC, some toggle switches, LEDs, and 4KW
> > of SRAM, right?
> > >
> > > -ethan
> >
> > The intercept had those, the Intercept Jr only had a
> > keypad and numeric LED
> > display. It only 256 or 1K (12 bit) words of RAM
> > ISTR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 23:22:00 BST