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Subject: Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration
From: Josh Dersch via cctalk <cctalk () classiccmp ! org>
Date: 2020-03-30 19:02:56
Message-ID: CADBZjLafs9MyP11OBrvE==4d3tWOvFPx+RPzqFC5H9RV-ey0zg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:48 PM Brendan McNeill via cctech <
cctech@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Here in NZ and around the world many of us are in lockdown and spending
> more time on our computers, if that were possible. I have just completed
> the restoration of a PDP-8 Straight 8 which I believe is the only one in
> New Zealand. You can view the restoration story and find appropriate
> resources here: https://pdp-8.nz <https://pdp-8.nz/>
>
Very nicely done, and an excellent write-up. That core memory repair was
amazing. It's interesting to read about a PDP-8 with such a high failure
rate -- I've personally worked on two straight-8 systems (one at LCM+L, and
one in my personal collection) where relatively few component failures were
found. I wonder what accounts for the difference -- batches of diodes more
prone to failure, the environment the machines were stored in, or the
number of years of service...
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> While it plays Chess, it would be great if someone wanted to write (say) a
> Prime Number Generator, or some other application and email it to me off
> list. I have Focal-69 and can probably source other languages for this
> wonderful old machine with 4K of memory.
>
There's a 4K LISP as well, though it's a pseudo-LISP-1.5 dialect so it's a
bit different.
- Josh
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> brendan@mcneill.co.nz
> +64 21 881 883
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