David Williams writes:
> I have a PDP-11/60 available in Houston TX along with an HP 9836. If
> interested contact me off list. Looking to see if anyone is interested in
> them whole before parting it out. Seems most people just want bits and
> pieces.
If I were home, I'd give serious consideration to a road trip (from Ohio).
That's one of the models I've always thought was kinda cool, due to the
writable control store. I heard a story once that one of the DEC engineers
wrote PDP-8-instruction-set microcode for it as an exercise. Internal
lore held that it was the fastest PDP-8 ever made (dunno if it ran more
than FOCAL and paper-tape programs, though - interfacing devices would
be a bit of a hassle, I'd expect).
-ethan
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