Subject: Random PDP8 stuff for sale
From: "Stanley (S.T.H.) Chow" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 09:23:00 +0000

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From: "Stanley (S.T.H.) Chow" <[email-masked]>
Sender: "Stanley (S.T.H.) Chow" <[email-masked]>
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Subject:  Random PDP8 stuff for sale 

I finally got around to sorting out the boxes of PDP8 stuff.
Here is the complete list. I am quite willing to sell almost
any pieces. (My intention is to have one functional system
which I will turn into a coffee table - complete with a
program that flashes the front panel lights. It would be
nice if I can get a RS-232 port so I can use my 386 as a
terminal emulator :-)

Any way, here is the list (the stuff came from a DEC field
eng who was putting together a personal system. Most of
the H/W work, but I don't know which. No gurantees). All
the stuff appears to be for the PDP8/A.

 1) Frame:  paper label: Processor type PDP8A500
                         Serial #  4089
            slots:
                   m8315   1000950    
                   m8317   1087150
                   m8316   1015826
                   g650    PR6081449 ] X 2
                   H219B             ]
                   m8655
            regulator board G801B  rev 17M  ECO 09
            front panel, "limited function"
            front panel, with number pad, home brew mounting

 2) RX01:  PN70-13077-04 SN 18-038444-842
           rev C

 3) individual boards:
                 M8650
                 M9202 (Unibus inverter?]
                 Bus extender
                 H219A SN 7525-B-218   8KX12 core stack, in foam case
                 H219A SN 7502-898 8KX12 core
                 M8417 [looks like semi memory], in foam case
                 M8357
                 M8315 Hex OMNI CPU (does not boot)
                 H9194 (board says "Con block assy 12 slots")
                 54-14025
                 M7744 RX02 floppy controller,
                 M7745 RX02 R/W controller,
                 M8655
                 NPG and BUS Grant continuity card 
                 M7700
                 a long ribbon cable labelled M8357 at one connector

 4) doc:  VT10-0 field maintenance print set
          PDP8/a 8A500 Engineering Drawings
          1974 field service manual (thick book, seems to cover everything)
          PDP-8 handbook series:
              programing languages 1972
              introduction to programming 1972
       2X laboratory computer handbook (talks about pdp-12)
          copmuter lab workbook
          RT-11 system reference card (actually a booklet)

 5) 8 inch floppies:13 total, lots of interesting labels

I also have a complete functional PDP8/M S/N AG09231? that I intend
to keep, but I am open to selling pieces that I don't need. Here are
the boards starting from closest to the front panel:

     a big board (don't know what it is)
     M8330?1 YB
     M8340
     M8341
     M8310
     M8300
     M837
     M849
     Plessy P/N 700168-100 S/N 1343 8KX12 core memory?
  2X wirewrap boards
     G111 triple board
     M8320 
     wire wrap board connected to the "J1 option conn"

There were also some non-PDP8 stuff in the boxes:
 1) Paper tape labeled:
     MAINDEC-11-DZPRB-A-PT   10/11/77 NR
     PRS01-TOGGLE IN TEST PROGRAM

 2) 3 scope pouches with Tektronix 442 books and many P6106
    and P6108 probs.

 3) Diable power board? P/N 40530

Make me an offer, I will package and ship them any way you
want (you pay the cost). (For the person in Japan, I can
arrange to ship it after I relocate to China).

Stanley Chow            InterNet: [email-masked]
Bell Northern Research  UUCP:     ..!uunet!bnrgate!bqneh3!schow
(613) 763-2831
Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 93 08:18:05 JST
From: [email-masked] (Gavin Thomas Nicol)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Random PDP8 stuff for sale

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 93 08:18:05 JST
From: [email-masked] (Gavin Thomas Nicol)
Return-Path: <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Random PDP8 stuff for sale

I was hoping I'd be able to buy some of the parts Stanley Chow had for
sale, but after talking to my wife, it seems she's not happy about the
idea of having a PDP8 in our apartment, so I'll have to pass it up for
now.

(If you know anything about Japanese housing, you'll understand the
problem. Later this year we may be moving into a bigger place. I'll
work on her again when that happens.)

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            DIRECTION INFORMATIQUE, 6(5) mai 1993 p. 1

     INFORMATION INTERCHANGE / ECHANGE DES DONNEES

          The enemy is us. [Implementing EDI means bi changes in key business
            relationships. In fact, the changes in organizational structure for
            the initiating company as well as its suppliers and customers can
            be overwhelming. But the payoff can also be big as our case studies
            of R. J. Reynolds and Egghead Software show.] / Haight, Timothy --
            In: NETWORK COMPUTING, 4(5) May 1993 p. 102-116

          Getting an electronic bulletin board system up and running / Delfino,
            Erik -- In: ONLINE, 17(3) May 1993 p. 106-108

     INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL / STOCKAGE ET REPERAGE DE L'INFORMATION

          CD-ROM sales balloon, up 300% from Christmas -- In: MULTIMEDIA WEEK,
            2(20) May 17, 1993 p. 3

          Natural language comes of age. [West Publishing Company's WIN (Win Is
            Natural) is the first natural languageinterface to an online
            database (Westlaw).] / Pritchard-Schoch, Teresa -- In: ONLINE, 17
            (3) May 1993 p. 33-43

          Photo CD and other digital imaging technologies : what's out there
            and what's it for? / Ching-chih Chen -- In: MICROCOMPUTERS FOR
            INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 10(1) Mar. 1993 p. 29-42

          Quality of abstracts / Tenopir, Carol ; Jacso, Peter -- In: ONLINE,
            17(3) May 1993 p. 44-55

          Understanding data compression / Prosise, Jeff -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12
            (10) May 25, 1993 p. 305-308

     INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT / GESTION DES SYSTEMES INFORMATIQUES

          A practical approach to information engineering / Kansky, Martin --
            In: DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4(3) Summer 1993 p. 42-49

          Building an effective workbench for data base administrators and
            application developers / Friedman, Ted -- In: DATA RESOURCE
            MANAGEMENT, 4(3) Summer 1993 p. 22-32

          Data administration for reluctant organizations. [This article
            presents one strategy--focusing on user data groups--for beginning
            the culture change needed to take advantage of the data resource.
            The University of Massachusetts Corporation and two of its campus
            divisions are used as a case study.] / Bosworth, Michael -- In:
            DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4(3) Summer 1993 p. 58-65

          Data administrators : guardians of the corporate data asset / Tucker,
            Judy -- In: DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4(3) Summer 1993 p. 17-21

          Organizing for quality information systems / Lambert, Bob -- In: DATA
            RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4(3) Summer 1993 p. 50-57

          Practical experiences using the information resource management
            methodology / Ray, David -- In: DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4(3)
            Summer 1993 p. 7-16

          Repository administration : where data and process responsibilities
            meet / Hudson, Debra L. -- In: DATA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, 4(3)
            Summer 1993 p. 33-41

     MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS / SYSTEMES MULTIMEDIAS

          Baud building : new digital phone lines pump up the transmission
            speed of your color files / Tynan, Daniel -- In: PUBLISH, 8(6) June
            1993 p. 46-51

          Cablers look to multimedia for 500-channel future -- In: MULTIMEDIA
            WEEK, 2(20) May 17, 1993 p. 7

          CD-ROM sales balloon, up 300% from Christmas -- In: MULTIMEDIA WEEK,
            2(20) May 17, 1993 p. 3

          La compression numerique de l'image / Blanc, Manuel -- In: QUI FAIT
            QUOI, mai/juin 15, 1993 p. 28-29

          Designing for the future : multimedia presents new opportunities and
            challenges for graphics professionals / Todd, Daniel -- In:
            PUBLISH, 8(6) June 1993 p. 40-44

          IMA bringing multimedia to industries at large -- In: MULTIMEDIA

            WEEK, 2(20) May 17, 1993 p. 1

          Multimedia a la conqute des marches / Bernard, Sophie -- In: QUI
            FAIT QUOI, mai/juin 15, 1993 p. 17-19

          Paramount interactive brings studio methods to multimedia -- In:
            MULTIMEDIA WEEK, 2(20) May 17, 1993 p. 4

     NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING / TRAITEMENT DES LANGUES NATURELLES

          A look at speaker-independent speech recognition / Marrowitz, Judith
             -- In: ISR, 10(4) Apr. 1993 p. 10-11

     REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS - COMPUTER HARDWARE AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT /
     RECENSIONS ET ANALYSES - MATERIEL INFORMATIQUE

          Array of SuperSPARC systems will highlight SunWorld expo / Fisher,
            Susan E. -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 6

          AV Image de Data General / Lombard, Estelle -- In: DIRECTION
            INFORMATIQUE, 6(5) mai 1993 p. 18

          Canon NoteJet combines portability, printing / Caton, Michael -- In:
            PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 87, 93

          Compaq, Dell leverage server savvy to develop range of Pentium
            systems / Zimmerman, Michael R. ; Boudette, Neal -- In: PC WEEK, 10
            (18) May 10, 1993 p. 1, 14

          Compatibles : lequel acheter? / Champagne, Marielle -- In: DIRECTION
            INFORMATIQUE, 6(5) mai 1993 p. 24

          Digitizing tablets : precision input. [Comparative evaluation of
            graphics tablets: AcecadD9000+; CalComp Drawing Board II; GTCO
            Ultima; Hitachi Puma Plus; Jameco KD4000; Kurta XGT; KYE Genius
            HiSketch 1212; Numonics GraphicMasterII; Scriptel RDT-1212;
            Summagraphics SummaSketch III; Wacom SD-421 E.] / Miller, Rock --
            In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 259-296

          First ThinkPad subnotebook due from IBM next month / Boudette, Neal
             -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 1, 14

          Graphics ASIC, reference design aimed at board makers / Schroder,
            Erica -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 27

          How PC week labs performs evaluations of notebook PCs / Berlind,
            David -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 17

          Microsoft, Intel unwrap spec for telephony API / Cortese, Amy -- In:
            PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 12

          Nouveaux lecteurs de CD-ROM MultiSpin chez NEC / Lombard, Estelle --
            In: DIRECTION INFORMATIQUE, 6(5) mai 1993 p. 18

          Storage dimensions' LANStor gains tape support : modules fit into
            company's RAID, NetWare offerings / Fisher, Susan E. -- In: PC
            WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 64

          ThinkPad 720C goes to heal of class / Berlind, David ; Yates, Chris
             -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 16

     REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS - SOFTWARE PRODUCTS / RECENSIONS ET ANALYSES -
     LOGICIELS

          Antivirus software : watch out for viruses the inexpensive shareware
            way. [Review of F-PROT 2.07; Integrity Master 1.41b; Viruscan Suite
            1.02.] / Rubenking, Neil J. -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993
            p. 56

          Apple hosts developers, releases new technologies CD -- In:
            MULTIMEDIA WEEK, 2(20) May 17, 1993 p. 8

          Crystal Reports 2.0 : sparkling interface for reporting / Plain,
            Stephen W. -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 46

          DOS 6.0 tests fail to show serious bugs -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May
            10, 1993 p. 8

          Lotus announces Notes release 3.0 / Del Nibletto, Paolo -- In: INFO
            CANADA, 18(5) May 1993 p. 1, 25

          Microsoft draws OLE road map / Cortese, Amy -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18)
            May 10, 1993 p. 12

          New writers' tools : better writing through electricity : correct
            spellings, better words, and pithy quotes all are available on
            demand. [Review of computerised writing tools: The American
            Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition 1.1 and Office Edition;
            The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Electronic Edition 1.0; Funk &
            Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary 2.0; Instant Definitions
            Dictionary Two-Pack; Key Dictionary Plus; MultiLex Professional
            Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.0; Oxford Writer's Shelf 1.0; Random
            House Webster's Elctronic Dictionary and Thesaurus, College
            Edition; Correct Grammar for DOS 4.0 and for Windows 2.0; Grammatik
            5 for DOS and for Windows; PowerEdit 2.1; The Random House
            Encyclopedia for Windows; RightWriter 6; The Writer's Toolkit 2.0
            for DOS and for Windows; Word Finder Plus for Windows.] /
            Rabinovitz, Rubin -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p.
            147-200

          PC Tools builds the most flexible Windows desktop / Mendelson, Edward
             -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 37-38

          Photoshop ushers in a new era in PC image editing. [Review of Adobe
            Photoshop for Windows 2.5.] / Simone, Luisa -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12
            (10) May 25, 1993 p. 37, 39

          Rival players spar over cross-platform Windows : Macintosh, Unix are
            latest targets of Microsoft thrust / Cortese, Amy -- In: PC WEEK,
            10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 1, 12

          Software-only protocol analyzers / Haugdahl, Scott J. -- In: NETWORK
            COMPUTING, 4(5) May 1993 p. 126-138

          Taking stock of automatic inventory software / Chroniger, Chris ;
            Cole, Shawn ; Drews, Jame ; Herling, Carl ; Nelson, Fritz ; Rizzo,
            Joe -- In: NETWORK COMPUTING, 4(5) May 1993 p. 28-54

          Turtle Tools makes editing sound files easier / Kendall, Robert --
            In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 49

          Ventura PicturePro : powerful editing and masking tools / Grunin,
            Lori -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 53

     REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS - TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES / RECENSIONS ET
     ANALYSES - SERVICES DE TELECOMMUNICATIONS

          AT&T, NCR to offer PC videoconferencing / Converse, Caryn -- In: PC
            WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 115

          Cabletron adds options for MMAC hubs / Loudermilk, Stephen -- In: PC
            WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 20

          Comm packages open up world of Windows / Safi, Quabidur R. -- In: PC
            WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 89, 96

          Desktop videoconferencing systems. [Directory of products and
            vendors.] -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 110, 115

          Lotus adds Notes allies, wireless gateway / Rooney, Paula -- In: PC
            WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 20

          Megahertz announces wireless modem to transmit data via Mobitex
            network / Loudermilk, Stephen -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993
            p. 49

          Peer-to-peer LANs : teamwork without trauma. [Review of peer-to-peer
            LAN operating systems: InvisibleLAN 3.3; LANtastic 5.0; Windows for
            Workroups 3.1; NetWare Lite 1.1; SilverNET 2.0M; 10NET 5.1; WEB for
            Windows and DOS 4.0.] / Derfer, Frank J., Jr. -- In: PC MAGAZINE,
            12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 203-257

          Vendors bridge data gaps of hosts, PCs at DB/Expo / Moser, Karen D.
             -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 18

     SOFTWARE ENGINEERING / GENIE LOGICIEL

          Developer adding object-oriented hooks to procedural language /
            Leach, Norvin -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10, 1993 p. 53, 57

          Developers to wed NT, video / Schroeder, Erica -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18)
             May 10, 1993 p. 53, 57

          Easy-to-use object-oriented parallel processing with Mentat /
            Grimshaw, Andrew S. -- In: COMPUTER, 26(5) May 1993 p. 39-50

          Example-based graphical database query languages / Ozsoyoglu,
            Gultekin ; Hyaqing, Wang -- In: COMPUTER, 26(5) May 1993 p. 25-38

          IBM won't ignore Win32s for OS/2 / Ferranti, Marc -- In: PC WEEK, 10
            (18) May 10, 1993 p. 53, 59

          Integrating a Windows help file into an application / Duncan, Ray --
            In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 343-354

          Modeling the user interface : object-oriented modeling of
            human-machine interfaces is appealing, but the generic network
            model may contain thousands of objects / Marchisio, Lucia ; Ronco,
            Enrico ; Saracco, Roberto -- In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31
            (5) May 1993 p. 68-74

          Object technology at Hewlett-Packard / Harmon, Paul -- In:
            OBJECT-ORIENTED STRATEGIES, 3(4) 1993 p. 1-15

          The path to advanced font techniques / Petzold, Charles -- In: PC
            MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 331-340

          Research directions for user interface software tools / Olsen, Dan
            R., Jr. ; Foley, James D. ; Hudson, Scott E. ; Miller, James -- In:
            BEHAVIOUR AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 12(2) Mar./Apr. 1993 p. 80-97

     STANDARDS AND STANDARDIZATION / NORMES ET NORMALISATION

          Analyzing network performance management : OSI management principles
            and tools make it possible to develop a performance management
            model powerful enough for the 21st century / Hayes, Stephen -- In:
            IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p. 52-58

          CMISE functions and Services : the Common Management Information
            Service Element was developed to monitor the health of OSI
            communications entities / Raman, Lakshmi -- In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS
            MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p. 46-51

          Desktop video has far to go : delayed standards slow penetration of

            videoconferencing / Kramer, Matt -- In: PC WEEK, 10(18) May 10,
            1993 p. 107, 118

          Implementing OSI-based interfaces for network management : a
            partially standardized network-management interface requires less
            effort to evolve than a completely proprietary solution / Serre,
            Jean-Marc ; Lewis, Pierre ; Rosenfeld, Ken -- In: IEEE
            COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p. 76-81

          Information et normalisation, deux ingredients d'importance
            strategique -- In: LES AFFAIRES, 65(19) mai 15-21, 1993 p. P3

          ISDN in North America : the North American ISDN Users' Forum is
            expediting the development of a national market-driven ISDN /
            Stokesberry, Dan ; Wakid, Shukri -- In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS
            MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p. 88-94

          Managing ATM-based broadband networks : industry is reaching
            agreements on standard ATM-layer operations early in the BISDN
            development process / Farkouh, Stephen C. -- In: IEEE
            COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p. 82-86

          The OSI network management model : balancing the responsibilities of
            OSI's agents and platforms and their interaction protocols is
            complex, but OSI helps by offering functions lacking in Internet's
            SNMP / Yemini, Yechiam -- In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31(5)
            May 1993 p. 20-29

          System management information modeling / Mark Klerer, S. -- In: IEEE
            COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p. 38-44

          Tips for testing on X.400 networks / Lombardo, Nick -- In:
            COMMUNICATIONS NEWS, 30(5) May 1993 p. 38-39

          Using SMI to model SNA networks : two new approaches help manage SNA
            networks from non-SNA systems / Fernandez, Joseph ; Winkler,
            Kathrin -- In: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 31(5) May 1993 p.
            60-67

     MISCELLANEOUS / DIVERS

          Bell proposes personal phone numbers and network portability access
            service -- In: CANADIAN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK LETTER, 13(15) May
            10, 1993 p. 3-5

          Ergonomics of input / Flynn, Mary Kathleen -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10)
             May 25, 1993 p. 126, 135

          Invisible divides : communication and identity in Canada and the U.S.
           / Ferguson, Marjorie -- In: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 43(2) Spring
            1993 p. 42-57

          It's alive. [If code can eat, reproduce, age, and die, then can it
            also be alive? Artificial life researchers wonder.] / Miller,
            Michael J. -- In: PC MAGAZINE, 12(10) May 25, 1993 p. 81-82

          The state of the neural and fuzzy marketplaces / Blanchard, David --
            In: ISR, 10(4) Apr. 1993 p. 1, 2

------------------------------
EXAMPLE NO. 1 

Telco Deals Start Paying Off
Source:  Computing Canada, April 26, 1993, pp. 32-34
by James Buchok

ABSTRACT:    As a result of alliances between Canadian-U.S.-based companies
such as the one forged by Stentor Alliance of Canada's and MCI Communications
Corp., telecommunication rates have been greatly reduced.  The two companies have
recently introduced the cross-border virtual corporate network (VCN), known as
the Advantage VNet, providing networking services to large Canadian businesses. 
Virtual networks allow sharing of long distance voice and data lines with other
customers bringing rates down by as much as 30 to 50 percent.  Further, high
volume users can also benefit from discounts of up to 22 percent off their total
bill.

The linking of Stentor's Impac service with MCI's HyperStream will create the
first international frame relay service available in the world.  HyperStream, as
the service has been named,  will provide a cross-border, high-speed frame relay
data network linking local area networks between cities.

Stentor's main competitor, AT&T which forged an alliance with Unitel in January,
has introduced a software package similar to  Advantage VNet, the SDN (Software
Defined Network).

------------------------------
EXAMPLE NO. 2

Tire-kicking Technology:  AMS' Chief Technology Officer Describes his Firm's New
Lab
Source:   Computerworld, May 3, 1993, pp. 28-29

ABSTRACT:  American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) is opening a Center for
Advanced Technologies as an applied research laboratory in Fairfax, VA. this
month.  The systems integrator and software house which aims at becoming a
technology leader will focus on the following research areas:

      1.    Applications architecture;
      2.    Client/server technology; 
      3.    Collaborative work environments;
      4.    Computer/Human interaction;
      5.    Mobile computing;
      6.    Multimedia;
      7.    Object technology;
      8.    Performance and measurement.

Topics emphasized will be object technology (development languages, tools and
DBMS), multimedia (applications with interactive video and audio), and mobile
computing (pen-based computing, wireless data communications and the integration
of mobile technologies with client/server systems).  Activities will include
software performance testing particularly in complex client/server applications
involving multiple systems and multiple servers.  The research focus, however,
is expected to change to match business needs.

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 16:27:42 -0400
From: esvax::mrgate::"a1::nicholsl"@esvax.DECNET
To: "[email-masked]"@esds01.dnet.dupont.com
Subject: RX50 for PDP8/E

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 16:27:42 -0400
From: esvax::mrgate::"a1::nicholsl"@esvax.DECNET
To: "[email-masked]"@esds01.dnet.dupont.com
Subject: RX50 for PDP8/E

From:	NAME: NICHOLS, LEE H III
	FUNC: CR&D
	TEL: 695-4432                         <NICHOLSL AT A1 AT ESVAX>
To:	"[email-masked]" AT ESDS01 AT MRGATE

	Has anyone designed a PDP8/E interface for the RX50 floppy
drive? How about an OS/8 driver for same?

	Reply to: [email-masked]

	It's good to know someone still remembers the "8"!!!

Thanks

Lee Nichols

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 08:49:49 CDT
From: Douglas W. Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: 8/E systems in Cleveland

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 08:49:49 CDT
From: Douglas W. Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: 8/E systems in Cleveland

I just got the following E-mail, and I thought I'd pass it on:

> Subject: PDP-8
> From: [email-masked] (George Roettger)
> Organization: PC-OHIO PCBOARD - Cleveland, OH - 216-381-3320

> Dear Mr. Jones,
>    I read a file about PDP-8's that you posted which included a
> section about where to find them.  I have (2)PDP-8e's along with
> with a rack and (3) Decpak RK05 and boxes of boards for the above.
> I paid $200.00 for the lot from SUN Newspapers and would be
> willing to sell them for that amount to a good home. If you know
> of someone who would be interested please give them my number.
>                     George Roettger
>                     (216) 632-5382
>                     Internet:[email-masked]

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 12:44:02 CDT
From: Douglas W. Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: George Roettger's surplus stuff

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 12:44:02 CDT
From: Douglas W. Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: George Roettger's surplus stuff

George Roettger in Cleveland has sent me a list of the parts he has,
and going over it, I've concluded that he has something like the
following available PDP-8/E systems and parts:

He has 2 PDP-8/E systems with the following approximate configurations
(approximate because his list of board numbers appears to have been in
error in a few places, and because some boards are un-numbered):

  M8300 -- CPU registers
  M8310 -- CPU register control
  M8330 -- CPU timing control
  M8655 -- console terminal interface
  M8655 -- printer interface
  M8655 -- modem interface
  M7104 \
  M7105  > 3 board set for RK8E disk interface (for RK0x disk drives).
  M7106 /
  M837  -- memory management unit
  M860  -- RFI shield
  G111  \
  G645   > 3 board set for 8K of core memory
  G233  /  (the G111 is the only one with it's name on the handle)
  G111  \
  G645   > 3 board set for 8K of core memory
  G233  /  (the G111 is the only one with it's name on the handle)
  M8320 -- Bus Loads

I have recommended to him that he try to dispose of the above as systems,
and not break them up.  In addition, he appears to have the following
OMNIBUS boards which I have recommended that he make available separately
from the systems from which they were taken:

  G104  \
  G619   > 4K memory, 2 spare sets.
  G227  /

  G111  \
  G645   > 8K memory, 2 spare sets. (I made an offer on one set!)
  G233  /

  M518  \  Programmable realtime clock, 3 spare sets.
  M860  /

  M8340 \  Extended Arithmetic Element (multiply/divide hardware)
  M8341 /  2 spare sets.  (I made an offer on one set!)

  M8350 -  External I/O bus interface, 2 spares.

  M841  -- Line printer control, 1 spare.

  M847  -- Bootstrap loader, 1 spare, programmed for RK8E?

  M8655 -- Serial port, 14 spares.

In addition, he has two VT05 terminals, a TTY, some RK04 drives, and a
boatload of FlipChip logic cards.  I suspect that the cards were pulled
from whatever the M8350 was interfaced to, but it's apparently a bit late
to figure out what was there.  Here is his list of flip-chip boards:

   G180  G380  G381A G736  G890  G936  G938  M101  M103  M105  M111
   M112  M113  M115  M116  M117  M119  M121  M133  M135  M137  M139
   M155  M155  M162  M169  M205  M216  M238  M243  M302  M306  M405
   M523  M597  M606  M611  M623  M697  M783  M784  M796  M798  M908-YB
   M910  M921  M983  M984

In addition, he has some boards I don't recognize.  Has an old PDP-11
system been mixed into the pile of surplus he bought?  Here are the
odd ones:

   M1103 M1713 M7000 M7001 M7002 M7004 M7007 M7286 M7700 M7700J
   M7701 M7702 M7710 M7712 M7713 M7715 M7716 M7717 M7721 M7724
   M7760-P3 REV F    M7761 M7821 M7821

If you can use any of this stuff, please contact George
Roettger at (216) 632-5382 after 6:00 PM or send him E-mail
at [email-masked]

My advice to him was that it would be fair to ask about $5 per omnibus
circuit board to cover shipping of individual boards.  I didn't suggest
any prices to him for the other stuff.  My guess is that if you showed
up on his doorstep, he'd be perfectly willing to give you a complete
PDP-8 system configured as listed above for under $100, including a
rack, a vintage VT05 or Teletype, and more.

					Doug Jones
					[email-masked]

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 16:47:01 CDT
From: Douglas W. Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Software

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 16:47:01 CDT
From: Douglas W. Jones <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Software

I am building an emulator, and I need software to test it with.  Currently,
the emulator runs FOCAL-1969 quite nicely; for example, it says:

*TYPE 10E615,!
= 0.99995900E+616

This takes 11 seconds on my emulator running on an IBM RT workstation, and
it takes 5 seconds on my Tadpole SparcBook, both trying to emulate 1200
baud console terminals.  This reveals that FOCAL uses a 12 bit signed binary
exponent for floating point, and most of the time delay is in the decimal
to binary and binary to decimal conversion.

In any case, what I need is something that tests the extended memory
addressing.  Any help with this would be appreciated!

					Doug Jones
					[email-masked]