For The PDP-8 Folks

[Ethan Dicks]

On Apr 12, 2005 1:31 PM, David Gesswein <djg at drs-c4i.com> wrote:
> I have a bid in and I will be scanning it and putting it on my site if I win.
> Since I have an AX08 with a fault in it I would really like to win it.

Good luck with winning.  I was not planning on bidding because I do
_not_ have an AX08.  Do you have any photos on your site of the
innards of your AX08?  I'm curious what modules go into it.

Someday, I'd like to have a suitable output device (and possibly an
EAE) for an appropriate -8 so I could set up a Spacewar machine.  I've
often mused what it would take to implement suitable analog output
hardware on my SBC6120/IOB6120 (there are 36 general-purpose I/O pins
off the FPGA), but I'm pretty sure an EAE is out of the question,
based on the fact that there's no hooks on the IM6120 processor.  That
leaves my -8/i or my -8/e (possibly an -8/a if I can get my second
KK8E board set up and running).  At least with the -8/i, the EAE is
all M-series boards.  I don't have any parts for the OMNIBUS EAE.

So my best chance is a VC8I + EAE...

-ethan