On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 04:41:26AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: >John - Ref your 8S below - Happy to add this to the list. >any other good background info as to prior users etc? >yes if you can get the S/N will add that.
Will do on next visit. Dunno about past user (IIRC it has a DEC paper tape rig and some kind of homemade peripheral built onto a PT08 backplane). It came with a PDP-8/A system which also had some weird non-DEC I/O (my hazy memory says some kind of three-axis input with thumbwheels, but at least the disk is just an M8357/RX01). >something totally off topic from the 8S machines there are some >trs80 radio shack things that are huge like the MODEL 2 was but these were >later and had a 3 number designator ? there are many as I remember one >will be kept another kept for offsite displays but the others will >goooooooo........ I don't remember anything beyond the II/12/16 series, but no one tells me anything. Re theft: yeah there's no way a random house burglar would bother deinstalling something that size and then fence a machine where we just made a list of every surviving instance in the world. But ... we aren't talking about random house burglars ... (squints and glances suspiciously around the room :-). John Wilson D Bit
