My PDP-8 Cards

[Joe R.]

Jos,

   Thanks for the info. Can you tell me what the cards that I have do? I'd
like to be able to tell something about them. As far as OCR is concerned,
at least part of this stuff came from a "DECStation 310" that was used for
word processing. I have the Engineering Drawings for the DECStation 310 (I
THINK that is the correct name) and a plastic rack panel marked "WPS-8".

   Joe


At 10:23 PM 7/3/05 +0200, you wrote:
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>Am zondag, 03.07.05, um 16:09 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Joe R.:
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>>    I spent a big part of yesterday sorting out the DEC cards that I've 
>> been
>> picking up the last couple of weeks. This morning I photographed SOME 
>> of
>> the PDP-8 cards. Take a look
>> <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/> there's definitely 
>> some
>> odd stuff there! This is just a small part of the ones that I got. 
>> I'll add
>> more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If anyone wants to 
>> take a
>> stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
>> description I'll be glad to post it.
>>
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>The ECRM cards you've got are hardware speedups for OCR scanning.
>Yes PDP8's were used for OCR !
>  Some ECRM cards are very usefull, but those aren't.
>Nevertheless I have all info on those boards should you want do do 
>something with them.
>
>
>ECRM has a two card 24x80 VDU option and a multi-io ( RS232, PPT, 
>printer) all one one omnibus card.
>That are the truly usefull ones.
>
>btw ECRM is still in business...
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>				Jos Dreesen
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