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Bringing Back the PDP8

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the arise-from-your-grave dept.

Anne Thwacks writes " Andrew Grillet has decided that the Digial PDP8 - the first ever minicomputer, will rise from the dead. He is calling it the PDQ8. Sure others have done software emulations, and even hardware clones, but he is not just building a hardware clone, but trying to revive the whole idea of 12 bit computers!"

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  1. OMFG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    MY ASS is like a SHIT SPUTTERING gun today!!

    I just blew shit all over the sides of the toilet bowl. A perfect mixture of gas and semi-loose stool! righteous dude!!

    I hope this isn't offtopic.

  2. What's a bit? Decimal only here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    People here are generally too stupid to comprehend anything other than decimal.