Gawd, I know that feeling.

I just trashed a PDP8/I, 8/M, and 480 cu ft of associated peripherals
this
past January. (Had to demolish the shed they were in because a PITA
neighbor complained to the City. Over area allowed).
The cost of shipping this stuff out from the 'Great White North'
just wasn't worth the effort.
That PDP 8/I was the machine I first learned how to program (BASIC
of course...). I still have the PDP 11/05 I did second year on.

Nice thing about core memory. It STILL has the cassette tape bootstrap
in it, 20 years after it last booted. Surprising, considering that
a fried sense amp would have killed it. (Read of core memory is
destructive).

R


Chris Loiacono wrote:
>
> You guys almost got my eyes wet this time.
> I used to have a couple of Dyna/Pert DIP Inserters that were controlled by
> PDP8's. When these became obsolete around 1980, I sold off the machines for
> parts and nobody wanted the PDP's. I gave them away, and wish I had them
> now.
> The photo's at one of the links at the PDP site really got me choked up.
>
> Thanks for coaxing the good memories....
>
> Chris

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