PDP-8

The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-8 family of computers.

Look at what UPS Brought Me Today!

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Feb 072014
 
Look at what UPS Brought Me Today!

Fresh off the truck comes this exciting eBay find: A Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-8/M! According to the seller, this particular machine originally controlled some sort of industrial sewing machine. The board numbers tell me that it should have 8192 words (12 bits each) of core memory. I’ll mate it up with my recently-acquired Teletype Model 33 ASR (commonly but incorrectly called an "ASR-33") which will provide a printing terminal with low-speed paper tape reader and punch.

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