It lives! Imlac PDS-1, serial #2 is running again.

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Sep 4 14:14:00 2002

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:

> Yep, this is the Imlac I got from Tom after seeing his PDS-1D at VCF.
>
> I traded an old PDP 11 and some spare boards for the PDS-1(a?),
> documentation and spare parts.

Don't tell Tom, but I definitely think you got the better end of the deal
;)

> Now I've got to get a way to load the 4K terminal program into memory
> quickly and reliably (my Imlac has had the core memory replaced with
> SRAM), and interface it to one of my HP minis!

The PDS-1D I got came with the software and documentation for
boot-strapping it off the serial port. Maybe you can do it that way? If
I can find where I stored this stuff I can lend it to you if it would be
helpful.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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