Feel free to talk about anything you have been working on as long as it is PDP-8 related. Software, hardware, restoration, maintenance, I am interested in all of it and what others are doing. And if I am interested in what you are doing, I am almost certain others are as well.
Really nice idea! It seems that there are a lot of people having fun with these machines
but don't post anything about it. Maybe because they think it is not special, maybe they
don't want to put much time to make a posting, or maybe don't want to show their collection...?
The last PDP8 thing I did is build another
TTL VC8E clone so all my Omnibus machines have the
graphics (SpaceWar!) capabilities. Since a few weeks I have also a PDP11/10, so four bits extra... Oh dear...
Recently I got some PDP8 paper tapes with some music software. So I want to see if I can
make an interface for that so I can run the music program. Would be fun to have a good
sound quality instead of that horrible AM radio sound...
I don't know how often you check the forum here. I have made a few (too much?) topics which
are PDP8 related. When you
check out my postings you will see quite a lot PDP8 related stuff...
I made some clone boards from several Omnibus boards. I have shared them all on my
GitHub.
A computer using tubes would be high on the wish list. But even a small hybrid machine like the LGP30
is not really suitable to handle at home. So I have
some Anita calculators which are hybrid with diode/Tube logic
and
diode/tube/transistor logic. Really fun to have a calculator with over 200 tubes in it :D
My fun is restoring and developing hardware. My biggest wish is to have a discrete computer
like the Straight 8 or a PDP8/S. Just because the beauty of the technique with discrete transistors...
Regards, Roland