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Pat's Log: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 | PDP-8 Switches

posted Oct 24, 2009 7:11 AM by Jeremy Sharp

There's an entry on here about the creation of new front panel switches for a PDP-8

http://www.engsoc.org/~pat/log/index.cgi/2006/

A Few Impressions from Kiel

posted Oct 21, 2009 8:14 AM by Jeremy Sharp   [ updated Oct 21, 2009 8:15 AM ]

Until I get my own pictures put up, here are the best images I have seen from Kiel-- from Philip Hachtmann
http://picasaweb.google.com/iraeus/AFewImpressionsFromKiel

H316 sweetness

posted Sep 22, 2009 7:43 AM by Jeremy Sharp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxVbRz6udmI

Philipp Hachtmann's 1969 H316. Lovely machine.

Electrologica X8 back in NL

posted Sep 10, 2009 6:21 AM by Jeremy Sharp   [ updated Sep 10, 2009 6:24 AM ]

I'll be spending my Friday 11/9/2009 in Arnhem helping with getting the last bits of this system pushed into place in its new permanent home at HAN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCqyirfBZuY

vaxman.de

posted Sep 10, 2009 6:16 AM by Jeremy Sharp   [ updated Sep 10, 2009 6:23 AM ]

This site has nothing to do with PDP-8s, but the owner is a serious collector of PDP-11 and VAX hardware (and is actually the former owner, once removed, of my 8/M) as well as analog computers. There's far too much extremely cool stuff on this site to summarise - I'm still looking through all of it, myself - so just go and have a look:

http://www.vaxman.de/

MSc THESIS USB-enabled PDP8 computer

posted Sep 2, 2009 3:31 PM by Jeremy Sharp   [ updated Sep 6, 2009 10:54 AM ]

From the mighty TU Delft comes this USB-enabled FPGA re-implementation of the PDP-8.

http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/publicationfiles/924_507_thesis-1.pdf

PDP8RIC: An attempt to introduce a whole pdp8 in a small microchip

posted Sep 2, 2009 11:33 AM by Jeremy Sharp

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