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How much memory is in these CNC 8M's? The G104-G227 modules would indicate 4K, so why would they have a KM8-E (M837) installed? What...

There is a sudden "oversupply" of PDP-8/M machines: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235452128279 (1 available)...

Back in last century, we would take and leave off the front panel and carefully swap disks in and out of the RK05-F. The disks used...

Nope. RM03 could run on a 15a 120 volt circuit. If you had two of them you could hook up the spindle delay line and run two on a 15a...

Track alignment was too challenging to accomodate pack swapping on the RK05-F. Didn't the RM03 need 'data center' AC power?

"One is not DEC, I have no information on it." One is not like the other two, but there's 3 DEC drives there. Maybe he's confused by...

Well, there are things you can do to improve your homebrew enclosure. For example, it appears to be entirely missing the Digital...

I recently bought a PiDP-10 from Oscar Vermeulen at: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp10. He also makes replica...

Quite rare. Can't find any sold items on e-bay. Price depends on condition but if you want one buy it as you are unlikely to get another...

Hello Friends I've been reading about memory failure modes, especially for dynamic RAM, and wanted to hear from people about what...

Here is PDP-8 paradise - Hideehoo's FP6120/SBC6120-RBC on top of Oscar's PiDP-8/i on top of Spare Time Gizmos SBC6120 on top of a real...

WOW-how about a PC8E/PC04 paper tape reader/punch for $15k ...

It's on Craigslist, but may be of interest to someone in the area. - DEC PDP8/A Vintage Computer by Digital Equipment Corp .. and eBay...

Thanks for the reference. I was looking to be more precise about the delay. Basically emulating the functions in this chart in the Nov...

Transmission line theory and bus termination = magic 😉! Dave