http://www.retrotechnology.com/pdp11/pdp8.html



Here's some images, info, and notes about the PDP-8 my friend Claude

Kagan provided to MARCH. Photos courtesy of myself and Bill Degnan,

who I presume permits this use. I think this provides VERY brief

background about the PDP-8 in general, the RESISTORS, Claude, and the

first time the 8 has been shown in many years.



Contact me for any simple corrections. But MARCH should really have

this info and these images on their Web site. MARCH can take this

material and images with my permission, and work with it on their site

as they wish.



I've done this bit as a courtesy to MARCH and to Claude; I'm not

responsible for any exhibit plans for the '8. Also the notes are a

kind of a response to some reactions I got about the '8 when it was

shown at TCF; and to that poor PC World blog-up of TCF that Evan

posted about here in this list. (I responded with my own post on that

site, find the posts hear for details.)



Herb Johnson

retrotechnology.com

http://www.retrotechnology.com/pdp11/pdp8.html



On the Web page I constructed about Claude Kagan's and the RESISTOR's

PDP-8, I've added information and photos about the box of papertapes

and manuals Claude provided to MARCH with the '8. These paper tapes

represent his work on "Hershey fonts", character fonts created by Dr.

Hershey in the 1960's. Check that page for details. The box of

materials was tagged by me during my visit to InfoAge this weekend.



Herb Johnson

retrotechnology.com

Additionally, I picked up the Calcomp plotter pen mechanism, to work

on it at home and to combine it with the parts obtained by David

Gesswein. He had these constructed and he tested them on his plotter.

I'll return the assembly after testing and documenting their

construction, with the hope of making more for myself and others.



Herb Johnson

retrotechnology.com

Additionally, I picked up the Calcomp plotter pen mechanism, to work
on it at home and to combine it with the parts obtained by David
Gesswein. He had these constructed and he tested them on his plotter.
I'll return the assembly after testing and documenting their
construction, with the hope of making more for myself and others.

Herb Johnson
retrotechnology.com

http://www.retrotechnology.com/pdp11/pdp8.html

On the Web page I constructed about Claude Kagan's and the RESISTOR's
PDP-8, I've added information and photos about the box of papertapes
and manuals Claude provided to MARCH with the '8. These paper tapes
represent his work on "Hershey fonts", character fonts created by Dr.
Hershey in the 1960's. Check that page for details. The box of
materials was tagged by me during my visit to InfoAge this weekend.

Herb Johnson
retrotechnology.com