There were a bunch of different systems in DEC’s PDP line, many mutually-incompatible (e.g. the PDP-1, 6, and 10 were somewhat compatible, the PDP-8 and PDP-11 were each their own complete universe, and then there were the 5, 9, 12, and 15, etc.) but they were all very well-designed.
My friend @fvzappa has a listing up on eBay for a PDP-8/m, which is a complete PDP-8/m minicomputer: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116163448173 This is an excellent turnkey system for joining the 12-bit world!
@eschaton@fvzappa That brings back some memories. I spent a lot of time on a PDP-8 and taught computer science at Colby Commuity College using Basic and Fortran. I was pretty good with the teco editor.
@eschaton@fvzappa We had one of those in a corner of the CS teacher’s office in high school. It was an antique at the time. We much preferred the brand new Apple II computers down the hall.
@jbrewer_jera@fvzappa Ah, but if only you’d known. :) The PDP-8 is actually a really friendly machine! It’s practically the first RISC system, and the HP 2100 series is basically a 16-bit version of the DEC PDP-8, as were a number of other systems of the 1970s.
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