<div dir="ltr">The PDP-8 was the heart of Steve Skirpan's "Autocue" in the 1970's<div>Steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Dan Sheehan via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">DEC PDP-8's in GenRad 1790-series board testers.<div>12 bits wide, octal notation for 4 3-bit groups.</div><div>Hand-toggled in a few machine code instructions to boot it up.</div><div><br></div><div>That was well back in BC </div><div><br></div><div>(Before Children)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the late 1970s I ran a couple of PDP 11 systems to control<br>
semiconductor testing in a pilot line. I still have the hard disk from<br>
the first IBM 286 sold out here sitting on my shelf next to the<br>
prototype for the first mass-produced computer voice board.<br>
<br>
Ah, history. That and $12.95 might buy me a soda.<br>
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On 11/26/2015 10:49 PM, Steven Santos via Stagecraft wrote:<br>
> I used a PDP-11 in high school back in the early 1990's. One of my<br>
> after school jobs at the time was assisting a friends father<br>
> installing and maintaining Digital Alpha and Sun Solaris servers, as<br>
> well as the workstations that went with them. Had one client that had<br>
> 3 PDP-11's (a 55, a 65 and a 70 IIRC), 2 racks of Sun servers (6ish)<br>
> and and 8(!) digital alpha servers (2100 series I believe it was) and<br>
> a home-brewed box they called "big bertha" that had a ton of hard<br>
> drives in it and wired to it. No one ever told me what these guys<br>
> did, but we spent a LOT of time making network authentication work<br>
> right. The PDP-11's did not want to work with Sun's network<br>
> authentication. Neither did the Windows for Workgroups (3.11)<br>
> machines want to do it.<br>
><br>
> I still remember being blown away that an office of 12 would have this<br>
> many servers running, and that each of these guys had a bleeding edge<br>
> W4W 386, a DEC term and a Solaris box (with 2 screens!) sitting on<br>
> each desk. My whole school had 1 pdp-11 that powered 2 classrooms of<br>
> workstations, plus the school admin terminals.<br>
><br>
> Now my phone has more computing power than that whole office did.<br>
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Kristi R-C via Stagecraft<br>
> <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> DEC made tanks. I used to program on a PDP 11/70. I think you could have bombed it and it would have been fine.<br>
>><br>
>> Kristi R-C<br>
>><br>
>>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Chip Wood via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Did that in '75 when NSA retired their PDP-1 (Serial # 1) for a PDP-10 back when core was core and NSA was only a little paranoid. Ran a million cycles of random data thru it and they said that wasn't enough. So we yanked it and put it on a shelf. That thing could still be there after 40 years.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Chip 1<br>
>>><br>
>>>> On 11/24/2015 8:41 AM, Alf Sauve' via Stagecraft wrote:<br>
>>>>> On 11/23/2015 10:36 PM, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft wrote:<br>
>>>>> volatile core memories<br>
>>>> Never heard of "volatile" core memory. One of the advantages, possible the only one, of 'core" memory was that it was not volatile. It actually was a real pain if you were trying to scrub it clean of classified data. Been there. done that.<span class=""><br>
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