Sell's your 8's on Ebay

[ed sharpe]

for real fun write a Honeywell 1000 emulator

Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Sell's your 8's on Ebay


> >Some machines will never approach that sort of value. Picking on 
> >Honeywell
>>again, I doubt a Level 6 will ever be worth even a tenth of a PDP-8, even
>>in 50 years.
>
> Look at it this way, the PDP-8's and PDP-11's have an advantage over a 
> Honeywell system.  Even the rarer 8's and 11's probably are easier to get 
> parts for, and then there is the whole question of software.
>
> Of course what I'd really like is a DPS-8 emulator and a copy of GCOS-8 to 
> run on it (or a copy of Multics).
>
> Zane
>
>
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