On Jan 25, 18:56, David V. Corbin wrote:
> Actually that (I am pretty sure) is a version that focuses mainly on
the
> PDP-8/a which was microprocessor (rather than discrete component)
based.
>
> Earlier editions (which had more information on Flip-Chip based
designs),are
> much more useful to those intersted in older PDP-8's (/I /E /L /M
/S).
Nope, I have a copy of that handbook, and it is definitely the one for
the PDP-8/E (and 8/F and 8/M), not the 8/A (which followed). And as
has already been pointed out, those machines are all TTL. It was the
VT/780 and DECmates that used microprocessors.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
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University of York
Received on Mon Jan 26 2004 - 06:02:36 GMT