Sprague Electric (now Allegro) used them as part of a Teradyne test=20
system when I started there in 1976.  I didn't know a thing about=20
programming then, but there was a series of maybe 20-25 hex numbers that=20
needed to be entered in binary on the front panel to get the paper tape=20
reader loaded. Later on, I took a PDP8 assembly language course and I=20
used a cpm machine connected by 300 baud modem to the college's PDP11=20
which ran a PDP8 emulator.

Joe W

On 3/1/2015 9:54 PM, John Gardner wrote:
> PC's for everyone !
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8
>
> Anyone with $20K, that is, in 1965 dollars...  :)
>
> A bit of perspective on the meaning of RISC, and perhaps also
>
> the meaning of money - Roughly $200 K in today's greenbacks...


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