[TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own?

Wed Mar 4 14:35:08 CST 2020

French to Googlish: "IT SEEMS THAT THE STRIPS OF PAPER ARE BLACK"The strangest paper tape episode I had was coming into a Uni lab after a weekend to find an ASR33 bolted to a wall below the ceiling. A giant loop of tape (ends taped together w overlapping sprocket holes) was fed through the reader. It was being used as a ROM with a computer that had no other memory apart from core.  I swear it's true. About 1973.Pete
-------- Original message --------From: Rick DeNatale via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> Date: 3/4/20  2:01 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: Wft <wft at nc.rr.com> Cc: Triembed <triembed at triembed.org> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own? Another anecdote from my college days in the early 1970s. One of the graduate students spent some time overseas in France.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:IL SEMBLE QICI LES BANDES DE PAPIER SOIENT NOIRESOn Mar 3, 2020 at 9:23 PM, <Bill Trautman via TriEmbed> wrote:
   
    
    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. 
      
      
        On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:16 AM
          Rodney Radford via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org>
          wrote:
        
        
              I am strongly considering buying one of these
                though...
              
              
              https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/david-hansel/arduino-altair-8800-simulator-3594a6
                
              
            On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at
              10:46 AM Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed <triembed at triembedorg>
              wrote:
            
            
                  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 <triembed at triembed.org>
                  wrote:
                
                https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one
                  
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                      inappropriately unattired (PJ's)
                  
                
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