Running A PDP-8 From 1965
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In the 80's I worked with a Tandem NonStop II machine. It had one light per CPU instead of this PDP 8 christmas tree. Progression? :-)
Toon van der Pas
2024-04-17 08:09:11 +0000 UTCVery cool! Brings back memories, for sure. I worked on an HP 2100 computer (16 bits, 32k core!) in the 70s. Someone at HP had programmed a similar music program that played Hora Staccato by vibrating the paper tape reader clutch (probably didn't do the clutch any good). You had to insert a 3x5 card in the tape reader, which served as a diaphragm.
Rob Hamilton
2024-04-17 02:19:56 +0000 UTCThis is a bit more my era, when I started Uni in 1983ish the computer science departments PDP-11 had just been replaced by a VAX 11/750.
Dr Andy Hill
2024-04-16 19:37:52 +0000 UTCBefore I worked with mainframes, I was using PDP-8s and PDP-11s. Like Mark Shaum, it was how I entered the world of octal and machine code programming. We used a Teletype with paper tape reader to load programs.
Bob Pockney
2024-04-16 17:51:03 +0000 UTCWatching this was fun! I learned octal math on a pdp-8e around 1972. I already knew binary code pretty well, having toggled in a Z-80 program in machine language. No compiler, just me. And then came Hexadecimal machines and they remain with us today.
Mark Shaum
2024-04-16 16:20:40 +0000 UTCDitto!
Fred Patton
2024-04-16 16:10:54 +0000 UTCEarly computer goodness - I have a magnetic core memory plane from a Russian PDP-11 clone in my technology tchotchke display case. I am older than the PDP-8 but some days my memory core plane seems to be less than 4K.
Bill Karkula
2024-04-16 15:28:15 +0000 UTCThis one's only a year younger than me and will soon have more memory than I have left!
David Peaker
2024-04-16 14:08:32 +0000 UTCSweet!
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