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Article #9Re: Scary Thoughts
From: Art H. Hurst
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:55
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:55
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In article <1992Nov05.143334.21226@bnr.ca> grier@bnr.ca (Brian Grier) writes: >I thought that the PDP-8 had long ago disapeared. I used to own >a PDP-8e with a dual DEC-Tape drive, OS-8, Fortran II compiler, >FOCAL, and assembler. I gave the system to a computer museum in >Westminster Mass about 6 years ago. > >I still have the IBM programming card for the PDP-8, sort of scary. > >Brian, WS1S >Bell Northern Research >Research Triangle Park, NC I had an 8/L!! donated to Ventura CA museum. Still have an 8a manual and programming cards. ASR33 I/O w/ paper tape --! 10 char/sec printout. Them were the good 'ol days! All day to get a 4k 12 bit program running -- if all went well. You prayed the paper tape wouldn't miss a punch on the 3 pass read. -- Art Hurst Email: ahhurst@mmm.com 3M Company Phone: (805)388-4170 Digital Storage Products Division FAX: (805)388-4804 Camarillo CA 93012
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Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.gtech.com!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!mmm.serc.3m.com!us048503 From: us048503@mmm.serc.3m.com (Art H. Hurst) Subject: Re: Scary Thoughts Message-ID: <1992Nov5.185507.10042@mmm.serc.3m.com> Organization: 3M Company References: <1992Nov05.143334.21226@bnr.ca> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 18:55:07 GMT Lines: 22