the 8L was a "real" machine, the 8S was a 12 bit plus parity SERIAL !!!
machine - e.g. the actual data path was one bit wide. there were no ICs,
all discretes, and a really bizarre schematic, totally unique logic
symbols -
"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
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william_b_noble wrote:
aaah, my first machine at home was a PDP8-S with 1K of 13 bit core
memory -
it was non-volatile, but certainly not ROM - and it had front panel
switches
for loading a bootstrap program

I still have a working PDP 8/L in the garage.


"Dave Martindale" wrote in message
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