If you would like to experience for yourself how a computer such as a PDP-8 looks and feels, there are several possible avenues to choose from:
get in touch with a museum, friend, or hobbyist who has “The Real Thing”, and see if you can get a demo or schedule a session look for old equipment dumps, maybe some company, university, or individual wants to give, sell, or lend such a machine to you get hold of schematics, spare parts, and go try and build one yourself, possibly re-using any original parts available to you download a software simulator for the computer model you’re interested in, and have a go at running this virtual environment design your own emulation, possibly adding some fancy lights and switches to make it more realistic and tangible than a software-only emulation look for a kit and build it yourself, knowing that others have done the same, with support from the kit maker and/or other builders who went before you This article is about that last option.
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