AteEm - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Expensive?? (Score 1) 92

by AteEm on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:18PM (#49359321) Attached to: Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi

These days $2000-$3000 will get you a somewhat running PDP8/e/m (SSI/MSI); the 8/a is much cheaper ($1000) as its processor is LSI.

Comment Re:He was a little too late (Score 1) 92

by AteEm on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:15PM (#49359295) Attached to: Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi

DANG! Even three or four years ago the '8 would have fetched over $1000, easy.

Comment Re:Why would a PDP8 be expensive? (Score 1) 92

by AteEm on Friday March 27, 2015 @10:10PM (#49359287) Attached to: Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi

As an owner of a real PDP8/m, I can assure you that spare parts are available. The beauty is, you can actually troubleshoot down to part that can be purchased off the shelf; today's systems are fixed by board swapping, lest you waste your time finding out the problem is in some custom IC. Of course, I'm not sure anyone does that kind of troubleshooting anymore :(

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