On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yea, I know the beast, I never got to play with one, but the PDP 8e was the
> same way, It had a bunch of switches on the front and you would enter your
> data through it. You also told it what address to load the data into if you
> were
> starting at a different address. Here is a pix of a PDP-8e.
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/DEC_PDP_8e.jpg
>
> The other one I worked on was the PDP-11, those were interesting times.
>
>
For those who wax nostalgic, you can build your own PDP-8 powered by a
Raspberry Pi. See
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pidp-8i-remaking-the-pdp-8i/ for details.

Michael

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