if ya all are patient folk I know I have an extra frontpanel for a straight
8 in one of our buildings that could be for trade. as I recall it is nice.
Thanks!
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
See the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
online at:
http://www.smecc.org
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Straight 8 -- front panel repair
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, ben franchuk wrote:
>
> > > Nisler's PDP-8 is scrap. It can be restored, but I think it makes no
> > > sense whatsoever to take apart Pete's PDP-8 to supply parts for
Nisler's
> > > machine. It should be the other way around if anything.
> >
> > I beg to differ. Both people need a front pannel to say the least.
> > Both people have talents skills and hardware that need to shared.
> > While Nisler's PDP-8 is only a pile of parts right now, Kermit
> > may still live if he can compare it to a working 8. Pete lacks the
> > hardware know how to get his 8 working. Fixing Kirmit and Pete's
> > 8 togther gives both people a chance to learn more.
> > I posted this message to cctalk in the hopes of people with
> > straight 8's and other 8's to share knowlage and information.
>
> Ben, PA-lease! Have we both seen the same photos of Nisler's PDP-8? His
> machine got CREAMED. As I stated before, it can be restored, but I would
> NOT take parts from another machine (as you seemingly suggested in your
> last message), such as Pete's, which, from the description, sounded like
> it was 1,000,000 times more readily restorable than Nisler's. It just
> had paint peeling off the front panel glass. Nisler's is a pile of scrap
> sitting amidst the rubble of a condemned house.
>
> "Kermit" is not a person, it's a computer. A smashed computer. And no
> matter how you want might want to personify it (calling it Kermit is cute
> but doesn't help) it still doesn't change the fact that it has one foot
> in the scrap bin.
>
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