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Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
Date: 21 May 2014 10:33:46 GMT
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On 2014-05-20, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2014 23:10:34 +0200
> Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
>  
>> That is very similar to the first PDP I worked on, and coincidentally that
>> was 1978 as well.
>> 
>> Ours started out with 64KB, two RK05 disks and 3 VT52 terminals.  By
>> Christmas 1979 we had upgraded it to 192KB, 6 terminals, another couple of
>> RK05s and an RL02.  No tape though, we did our backups to RK05s.
>
><snippage>
>
> Fascinating to hear from someone who had experience with one of these
> things.  This picture of the sequence of byte-by-byte instructions for
> booting the machine blows my mind.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/osr/14043526294/in/set-72157644327706146
>
> Kind of puts into perspective PC users who are having trouble with
> GRUB2 or think their BIOS sucks, etc.  Here, I'll transcribe it:
>
> LA 010000
> DEP 012737
>     000005
>     177404
>     000777
> LA 010000
> START
> WAIT 1 SEC
> LA 0000000
> START
> .   P4
>
> Wizardry, total wizardry.  I'm in awe.

How old are you? This kind of stuff was pretty standard when I started.


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