Re: Availability of PDP-8i Front Panel

2016-09-26 Thread Marc Howard
Ray, A worthy undertaking. However "I volunteer to accomplish the building of the prototype system using only the parts available at the time the orginal computer were built." is going to be problematic. The 8/I only came with core memory; you'd have to be a glutton for punishment to do that fro

Re: Availability of PDP-8i Front Panel

2016-09-26 Thread Rod Smallwood
has all of these > items taken care of. But there does /not/ exist one for the PDP-8/e. > > I await your wisdom, > > -- > Anders Nelson > > +1 (517) 775-6129 > > www.erogear.com > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Ray Neal > To: cctal

RE: Availability of PDP-8i Front Panel

2016-09-26 Thread Anders Nelson
rogear.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Ray Neal To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:59:24 -0700 Subject: Availability of PDP-8i Front Panel Sir; I working on a project to build a PDP-8i for a combined Compute Science/Electronic Engineering course on design. T

Re: Availability of PDP-8i Front Panel

2016-09-26 Thread Rod Smallwood
Hello Ray I have plenty of PDP-8/i front panels. I also make and stock front panels for PDP-8/e , f and m. The panels are made by the exact same process as the originals. They are designed as replacements for front panels on original systems. I worked for digital when these syste

Availability of PDP-8i Front Panel

2016-09-25 Thread Ray Neal
Sir; I working on a project to build a PDP-8i for a combined Compute Science/Electronic Engineering course on design. The purpose of this course is to teach the basic of computer design, build and Programing a computer they must build. This course is still a year down the road. I volunteer to