[TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own?

[Gregg Tracton]

Was it magnetic tape?


On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 2:01 PM Rick DeNatale via TriEmbed <
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> Another anecdote from my college days in the early 1970s.
>
> One of the graduate students spent some time overseas in France.
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> One day someone got a package from him containing a mysterious roll of
> paper tape which was black. I don’t think that any of us had seen such.
>
> So someone fed it into one of the teletypes and printed it, revealing the
> message:
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> IL SEMBLE QICI LES BANDES DE PAPIER SOIENT NOIRES
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> On Mar 3, 2020 at 9:23 PM, <Bill Trautman via TriEmbed
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> 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 :-)
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> On 3/2/2020 7:39 PM, Ken Boone via TriEmbed wrote:
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> 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 <
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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!
>>>
>>> I used one of these computers in college.
>>>
>>> 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.]
>>>
>>> It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users
>>> could do it in 20 seconds.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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