From: William_Ericson@tivoli.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] I have PDP8E's
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:09:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF3B2F9482.BAAB5C79-ON86256993.005E3DAC@tivoli.com> (raw)
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William Ericson
11/10/2000 11:06 AM
To: johnb@teachers.org
cc:
Subject: I have PDP8E's
I have an extensive collection of DIgital Equipment machines - including
two PDP8E's, and manuals and software and many such things.
Feel free to write me to discuss your interests....my machines could be
possibly be available.
FYI - I worked at Digital for 20 years (badge 42305) - in the groups that
designed the PDP8E and LSI-11.
I also was #945 at Data General - started by Edson DeCastro who designed
some of the earlier PDP'8's at Digital before starting Data General.
At Digital - John Clark was the manager of the PDP group and John Kirk -
was one of the superstar designers.
At Data General - I was in the team of 3 that designed the Eclipse - the
follow on machine to Ron Gruner's Nova 1200 at Data General. Larry
Seligman had designed the Nova 800.
Naturally I have all of the schematics, manuals, books etc and am very
skilled at fixing PDP8 machines. All this was done in the old Mill
building in Maynard Mass in ML1-2 (building 1 floor 2).
The PDP 8 may be one of the last machines that was truely easy for one
person to understand completely - to the last bit.
It is easy to design IO boards for it. The evolution to Data Generals
Nova was just an incremental step - but familiarity with the logic design
would show you what an elegant evolution it was - with everything on one
card instead of the PDP8E big chassis and 3 board CPU.
At Digital - I was a logic designer in for the LSI-11, for the PDP
terminals, for the VT100 video terminal and was a software engineer on the
X Windowing terminals.
Tell me about your desire to acquire PDP8E's.
I am also williambericson@yahoo.com
William B. Ericson
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