[TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own?

[Bill Trautman]

I think I still have a Paper Tape for a PDP8 from a summer class I took at Lehigh University in 1978 as a rising Highschool Senior :-)

On 3/2/2020 7:39 PM, Ken Boone via TriEmbed wrote:
> I think I have an original PDP 8 front panel at home.
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:16 AM Rodney Radford via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org <mailto:triembed at triembed.org>> wrote:
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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 <triembed at triembedorg <mailto:triembed at triembed.org>> wrote:
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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 <triembed at triembed.org <mailto:triembed at triembed.org>> wrote:
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>             https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one
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