[TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own?

[Ken Boone]

I think I have an original PDP 8 front panel at home.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:16 AM Rodney Radford via TriEmbed <
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> I am strongly considering buying one of these though...
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> https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/david-hansel/arduino-altair-8800-simulator-3594a6
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed <
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>> Everyone will want one of these!
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>> I used one of these computers in college.
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>> For those under the age of 50: to start up this gem, first introduced in
>> the 1970's, you turn on the power and manually type in the 16 (or so)
>> instructions that tell the machine to load the OS (operating system), using
>> the toggle switches on the front. Yes, we were entering binary manually: it
>> had no keyboard (or mouse) -- this part, plus a disk, is the whole machine
>> [You could attach a terminal.]
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>> It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users could
>> do it in 20 seconds.
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>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed <
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>>> https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one
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