Good question Dave.
These photos were from the ebay listing.
I'll take some better ones in the good lighting tomorrow, front and back, and post a link.
I'll make the ICs readable.
DC

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:23:06PM -0400, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

    That's a possibility.  I have thought it would be cool to make a
    core work. If its not a whole lot of
    analog conditioning I suppose its something I'd consider.  Just at a
    glance, I'd expect that its all digital
    on the connector, so there would be power and interface to deal
    with, only. Not too bad if that's
    the case.  It does have two broke ICs- smashed to the point of
    decapped, but that's easy to deal with.
    Other than that its in great shape.

If all the driver logic is with the board should be digital interface.
Looks like their may be a second layer of logic not seen in the picture.
PDP-8/A is a sandwich with core mounted to base board with all the analog
stuff.

Does anybody know why it looks like only X & Y wires without sense/inhibit?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RQUAAOSw1kxgujxP/s-l1600.jpg