PDP-8.co.uk » TU56 http://pdp8.co.uk A guide to the preservation and restoration of PDP-8 computers Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:39:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Latest Haul – Saved from Scrap http://pdp8.co.uk/2009/07/10/latest-haul-saved-from-scrap/ http://pdp8.co.uk/2009/07/10/latest-haul-saved-from-scrap/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:59:21 +0000 Toby Russell http://pdp8.co.uk/?p=158 8-m-console.jpgI’ve just taken possession of a great haul which was literally sat on a scrap heap ready to go to PDP heaven. Highlights of the find include most of a PDP-8/M, a PC04 paper tape drive, a TD8E simple DECtape controller, an ASR-33 and a H960 rack. Whilst pretty rusty having lived in a barn for a while, most of the bits look to be restorable.

The sad news is that the TU56 that was with the machine got scrapped (brings tears to my eyes!) a few weeks ago although I did manage to recover a pair of motors and the chassis.

Unfortunately the core memory sets have gone from the 8-M, although there is a slight chance I might be able to regain one of them. If not, I will have to build up a solution using SRAM/NVRAM, which whilst not exactly authentic, will get the machine back into the land of the living.

Also, amoungst the haul were a PDP-11/40 chassis, a PRIME rack and disk and a TI-990 mini computer. You can read about these on my other blog

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