[GreenKeys] Happy birthday, PDP-8!

[Steve Garrison]

I'm like Paul (and probably should not have done a reply all) but can't see a shred of evidence of how this could be "on topic" for Greenkeys.

Let's keep it TTY related.

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On Mar 21, 2018, at 6:07 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>   Well, my introduction to computers was not much later. It was the Hewlett-Packard small main frame meant to compete with the PDP-8 or maybe it was the PDP-11. It rand on Hewlett-Packard Basic. It used an ASR-33 as the terminal although I think the one in our shop used a KSR-33 with separate tape punch and reader in the rack. I taught myself to program it using this machine. It had 32 _kb_ of memory. Could be expanded to 64 Kb with a second rack. Had flashing lights and toggle switches on the front to wake it up and tell it where the tape reader was. -hp- got into making them because it wanted something better than the PDP for automated measurement systems.
>   Teletype machines are really sort of elementary computers, converting serial to parallel and then to analog.
>   Unfortunately the computer "expert" in our facility was a psychopathic bully so I had to learn whatever I knew on my own.
> 
>> On 3/21/2018 2:48 PM, Paul Heller wrote:
>> I hate controversy, but much as I like the PDP-8  I really do believe it’s not appropriate for this board. (Gil did ask us to self regulate...)...