Videos: Musical PDP-8s
Here are a collection of You Tube videos featuring PDP-8s playing music: Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video.
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PDP-8/E Documentation
The following documentation is available as PDFs for the PDP-8/E (source Bitsavers) DEC-8E-HMM3A-C-D_MaintVol3.pdf 04-Jul-2002 02:11 26M - DEC-8E-HR1C-D_8eMaint_Feb73.pdf 14-Oct-2003 23:39 13M -...
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PDP-8/L: Card Locations
This table details locations of cards on a PDP-8/L backplane. I’ve put it together to aid in working out what is missing from my 8/L. I believe it to be accurate but you are encouraged to double check!...
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PDP-8/L Documentation
DEC-8L-D0BA-D_KP8L_Power_Failure_Option_Functional_Description_Apr69.pdf 24-Aug-2007 19:21 204K DEC-8L-D4BA-D_MC8-L_FuncDescr_Jun70.pdf 22-Feb-2008 03:05 1.1M...
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Recent Sales
A few PDP-8s have come up recently on Ebay. Here is a summary of the highlights: PDP-8/L This PDP had lived its last 30 years on a barn, although the pictures don’t look too bad. Internally very clean...
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PDP-8/A Documentation
EK-8A002-MM-02_PDP8A_UsersMan.pdf 21-Apr-2003 02:21 37M EK-FPP8A-MM-001_FPP8-A_Maint_Sep76.pdf 24-Aug-2007 02:02 7.8M EK-FPP8A-OP-001_FPP8-A_UsersMan_Dec76.pdf 22-Jan-2007 00:45 1.0M...
View ArticlePDP-8/I and PDP-11/40 for sale on Ebay
A great looking pair of machines have come up on Ebay that should have all us enthusiasts salivating. A PDP-8/I and an 11/40. The 11/40 comes with a PC05 paper tape drive and both are in H960 racks...
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PDP-8/E Rebuild – Part 1 – Strip Down
A new arrival in my collection was a fairly clean PDP-8/E chassis. The box came with no cards but I have sufficient spares to populate. First step in rebuilding it is to strip it down and remove all...
View ArticleVIDEO: TMOC demonstration of their Straight-8
Some nice videos here on YouTube from the National Museum of Computing in Bletchly Park, UK demonstrating their Straight-8: Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video....
View ArticlePDP-8’s for sale
I’ve decided to sell of a few PDP-8’s as the hoard is getting rather large at the moment and so I’m prepared to part with the following: PDP-8/M, 8KW core, M8650 serial UART, very clean machine in...
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