If you can find Art Snapper or Jeff Ingliss (Englis? Engliss? Inglis?) they
might have one they are willing to part with. I used an 8 for much of my
graduate career. When the thing crashed, you'd have to toggle a bunch of hex
code in order to load the OS from paper tape. We thought we were fortunate
when you could boot the thing on 8 ½ in floppies!
"O. Sharp" <ohh at drizzle.com> wrote in message
news:1062881417.813195 at yasure...
> Hello! I'm looking for an old Digital Equipment computer, a PDP-12, to
> purchase for a computer restoration project. Since they once had fairly
> wide use in neurological studies, I'm hoping someone here may know of one
> that may be available. If I'm too far off-topic here, I apologize.
>> The PDP-12s were built as laboratory instruments back in the late 1960s;
> they usually come in a cabinet about 6 feet tall, have one or two
> small magnetic tape drives on the front, and have an operator's console
> with several dozen impressive-looking lights and rocker switches on them.
> A picture of one, which I'm hoping some of you may find familiar, can be
> seen at:
>>http://flyingmoose.org/pdp12.jpg>> I'm hoping to find one that's in reasonably-restorable shape, and if by
> chance there's software and/or documentation as well that would be a
> great bonus. There's a restored PDP-8/I here to keep it company, too. :)
> Price is negotiable, depending on condition, and of course I'll be
> willing to arrange the shipping. (If it happens to be in or near
> Seattle, that would certainly make it easier.)
>> Does anyone know of (or, perhaps, even have) one that's available for
> purchase? If you do, please e-mail me. I'll be grateful. Thanks!
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>ohh at drizzle.com Um, yeah, I guess looking for thirty-year-old
> data processing equipment _is_ kind of an odd
> hobby... :)
