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baking on Dec 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Have We Learned from the PDP-11?

Regarding the UNIBUS, this needs a picture of the wire-wrapped backplane of a PDP-8 (especially the denser later versions with the flip-chips.) The front looks neat and tidy, but opening the back is still a part of my nightmares.

hsnewman on Dec 7, 2017 [–]

I got a PDP-8 emulator with a really cool blinking lights display here: http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8 my friends think I'm a geek.

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