[GreenKeys] Happy birthday, PDP-8!

[Wa3frp]

Agreed! 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com>
To: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, Mar 21, 2018 6:49 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Happy birthday, PDP-8!

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./N4TTYSent from my iPhone> 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...)...______________________________________________________________GreenKeys mailing listHome: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeysHelp: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htmPost: mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net2002-to-present greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.htmlRandy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool: http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.htmlThis list hosted by: http://www.qsl.netPlease help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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