The 8 was a great system but the 11 was far better.
Just checking ebay, this guy selling the 8E is smoking something [ebay.com]. He thinks it's a mainframe.
However this PDP-11 [ebay.com] can be had for a reasonable price.
The point being, you can run emulation software [vandermark.ch] on commodity hardware but I guess as the TFA indicates he wanted the nostalgia look. He could have easily just mounted an LEDs behind the panel with small pattern generator circuit instead of using the Pi.
Why not a PDP 11? (Score:2)
The 8 was a great system but the 11 was far better.
Just checking ebay, this guy selling the 8E is smoking something [ebay.com]. He thinks it's a mainframe.
However this PDP-11 [ebay.com] can be had for a reasonable price.
The point being, you can run emulation software [vandermark.ch] on commodity hardware but I guess as the TFA indicates he wanted the nostalgia look. He could have easily just mounted an LEDs behind the panel with small pattern generator circuit instead of using the Pi.
Re:Why not a PDP 11? (Score:2)