WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:

 Vintage> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
 >> Even where IBM cards of that era used 'commodity' components, they
 >> were usually completely house-marked and impossible for a mere
 >> mortal to figure out.  This goes all the way down to resistor
 >> networks and resistors/capacitors (except those few that have
 >> color-code bands.)

 Vintage> DEC used standard components.

Sort of -- if you ignore the bus transceivers.  And of course the
ASICs starting around 1980 or so.

      paul