Subject: Anbody got a PDP-8s for disposal?

From: [email-masked] ("Stephen Walters")
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 18:41:27 GMT

Anbody got a PDP-8s for disposal?

I would like one of these. Incidentally, I could not tell from the FAQ, 
but what model was described as a table-top-8?

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Date: 10 May 1994 21:55:40 GMT

>From article <[email-masked]>,
> Anbody got a PDP-8s for disposal?

	You don't want to pay shipping from Iowa, and I don't want to
	part with mine just yet.

> but what model was described as a table-top-8?

	Probably the original PDP-8.  The key is not that it was
	described as a table-top machine, but rather the lack of
	a qualifier after the 8.  Most of the PDP-8 models came in
	table-top configurations; certainly, the classic 8 did, and so
	did the 8/S, the 8/L and the 8/E.  I think the 8/I may have,
	too, but I haven't seen one.  The only 8/A configurations I
	know of are rack-mounted, and after that, they were all
	essentially table-top machines.

				Doug Jones
				[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Tom F Karlsson)
Date: 11 May 1994 13:37:58 GMT

>   essentially table-top machines.

The 8/I machines I have seen, is rack-mounted and rather large
(read: not desk top size...) The CPU box itself is something
like 60cm high.

/Tom
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From: [email-masked] (Paul Pierce)
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 00:05:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
|> From article <[email-masked]>,
|> by [email-masked] ("Stephen Walters"):
|> > Anbody got a PDP-8s for disposal?
|> 
|> 	You don't want to pay shipping from Iowa, and I don't want to
|> 	part with mine just yet.

Besides, I will outbid you. And pay shipping. (But hang on to yours as
long as you like Doug. I know you won't throw it away. Unfortunately, I
recently learned of a local PDP-8 collector who got tired of it and did
toss most of his collection. A shame.)

Someone else posted in these pages last year (I think) about finding an
8s, but I don't think he will give his up either. Very few were made, I
only saw one for sale once, 20 years ago.

|> 
|> > but what model was described as a table-top-8?
|> ...  I think the 8/I may have,
|> 	too, but I haven't seen one.

The '68 Small Computer Handbook shows the 8/I in its rack-mount
configuration and in a sleek standalone configuration where it _is_ a
table.

-- 
Paul Pierce			[email-masked]
Disclaimer: I don't speak for Intel.

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From: [email-masked] (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Date: 12 May 1994 13:49:37 GMT

>From article <[email-masked]>, by [email-masked] (Paul Pierce):
> 

The sales figures reported in Computers and Automation give the total
production run as 1024 (why an exact power of two?).  In comparison,
the PDP-8/I run was listed as 3698 and the PDP-8/L run was listed as
3902.  That makes 8/S systems rare, but not that rare.  There were only
1440 straight 8 systems made, and only 142 LINC-8 systems.

The difficulty of finding 8/S systems may be related to the fact that
most of them were embedded systems and to the fact that they were
inexpensive and slow, and therefore easy to throw out.

				Doug Jones
				[email-masked]