Subject: Re: Anbody got a PDP-8s

From: [email-masked] (David Razler)
Date: Sun, 15 May 94 16:30:00 -0500

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

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

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

Doug:
   The 8-I was never offered as a tabletop model because of the way it was 
housed (see Computer Engineering/ a DEC view of system design)

   At least when I say tabletop 8 I'm referring to the first 8, the first 
full-fledged computer that could sit on a desk and supply someone with a 
relatively decent amount of relatively inexpensive computer power. I'm still 
hoping to finish getting all the material I need to reconstruct a 
PDP-8/stroke nought desktop frame. Right now all is rather precariously 
balanced while I gather prints for the base, walnut panels, and plastic 
wrap-arounds covering and directing cooling to the modules.
                                                   dmr
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