PDP8 spares required

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:31 PM +0000 1/5/09, SAS Ltd wrote:
>I am trying to keep a PDP8 computer alive which controls a measurement
>system. I have a need for spares for this computer, in particular 16k memory
>boards and all other boards. In fact the only parts I am now sure about are
>the power supply and backplane.

It would be necessary to know *which* model of PDP-8 you're talking 
about.  It should be fairly "easy" to find spares for a PDP-8/e/f/m 
or a PDP-8a, but for the other models it will be tricky.

One worthwhile option is to look into someone repairing any bad 
boards you might have.

Zane



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