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Re: A naked PDP11

From Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: A naked PDP11
Date 2020-09-16 20:18 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:11:18 +0100, gareth evans wrote:
>
> I may have mentioned before (briefly, in passing :-)  ) that I
> cut my teeth on a naked PDP11 in assembler and machine code during
> a summer undergraduate internship in 1971. (45 minutes to load the
> assembler via the 10cps tape reader of the Teletype  :-(  )
>
> It is salutary to muse that this is now 49 years ago, and that
> 49 years previously it was 1922, before the days of regular
> radio broadcasting when the man-on-the-Clapham-Omnibus
> (John Doe to the Yanks) knew nothing of electronics*****, and
> certainly a decade and a half before electronic computers
> were even considered. For most people (here in Brit, at least)
> there were no telephones or motor cars.

Had a similar feeling about Back To The Future. It was set (and on the
big screen for the first part) in 1985. Then they went back 30 years to
1955. 2015 marked the 15th anniversary. 1985 doesn't felt so different to
2015 regarding existing 1985 technology. But technology made a big leap
between 1955 and 1985.
-- 
Andreas

https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/

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A naked PDP11 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-16 13:11 +0100
  Re: A naked PDP11 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-16 15:06 +0000
    Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 11:28 -0500
    Re: A naked PDP11 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-16 17:42 +0000
  Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-16 16:24 +0000
    Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 13:49 -0400
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-16 22:20 +0100
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-16 20:29 -0400
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-17 01:01 +0000
        Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 21:56 -0400
    Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-16 11:12 -0700
    Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-09-17 04:15 +0000
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-17 08:14 +0100
      Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 11:29 -0700
        Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 13:49 -0500
        Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:48 -0700
          Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:08 -0400
  Re: A naked PDP11 Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-16 20:18 -0400
    Re: A naked PDP11 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-17 07:11 +0100
      Re: A naked PDP11 Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-17 11:26 -0400
      Re: A naked PDP11 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2020-09-17 23:32 -0400
        Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 10:04 -0500
          Re: A naked PDP11 maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-18 16:44 +0000
          OT: sawing machines Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 11:22 -0700
            Re: OT: sawing machines Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:37 -0500
          Re: A naked PDP11 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-09-19 02:24 -0300
        Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:49 -0700
        Re: A naked PDP11 David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-10-06 00:21 +0000
          Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-10-06 10:27 -0700
            Re: A naked PDP11 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-10-06 17:45 +0000
              Re: A naked PDP11 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-10-07 15:48 -0700
                Re: A naked PDP11 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-10-08 08:23 +0000
          Re: A naked PDP11 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-10-07 15:45 -0700
    Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:39 -0700
      Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:41 -0500
      Re: A naked PDP11 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:12 -0400
        Re: A naked PDP11 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-18 22:41 +0100
        Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 16:43 -0700
        Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-19 11:50 -0700
          Re: A naked PDP11 maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-19 19:06 +0000
          Re: A naked PDP11 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-19 15:30 -0400
          Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 10:47 -0500
    Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:41 -0700
  Re: A naked PDP11 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 10:07 -0700
    Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-22 15:39 -0700

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