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Re: PDP-8 advertising

From	jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: PDP-8 advertising
Date	2016-06-15 13:05 +0000
Organization	"Have EDDT, will travel"
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Bob Eager wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:21:42 -0700, hancock4 wrote:
>
>> On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:37:41 PM UTC-4, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> C&A had numerous ads for the Digital PDP-8 computer and its variants.
>>> Some of the ad copy is shown here.
>>
>> Didn't anyone here ever program a PDP-8?  I thought this thread would
>> generate a lot more responses than the PL/I thread.
>
> I never programmed a real one. But I have built (and possess) two
> SBC-6120 machines. That's pretty real, as they use the same chip and run
> OS/8.
>
All of DEC's diagnostics were dup'ed on a PDP-8/I.  Some might remember
the trays which held 10 or 12 papertapes labelled with the DEC
retrieval number, name, etc.  I haven't seen one of those since I
made them.  It used a Burpee punch and I would swear that's the reason
I now alwyays hear peepers peeping.  Nobody liked that job; it was
so boring.  The 8/I was in the machine room across the hall from
Tape Prep offices in building 12-1.  If you walked into the front
door of DEC, Maynard, the machine room was straight ahead, Ken
Olsen was left and Tape Prep was along the hallway on the right.
At the end of this hallway were stairs which went up to 12-2
(Dave cutler's domain) and 12-3 which contained System 40's
operations, some diag people and small computer documentatino
people.

The top of the stairs led to a ramp which slanted up to
3-5.  The first set of offices on the right were diagnostics
and the rest of the floor was PDP-10 software development.

Sorry, got sidetracked trying to remember how we got from here
to there...

/BAH

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PDP-8 advertising hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-05-23 16:37 -0700
  Re: PDP-8 advertising hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-14 13:21 -0700
    Re: PDP-8 advertising Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-14 21:01 +0000
      Re: PDP-8 advertising jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-15 13:05 +0000
        Re: PDP-8 advertising Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-15 16:11 +0000
    Re: PDP-8 advertising "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-14 23:18 +0100
      Re: PDP-8 advertising Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-06-15 12:19 -0700
        Re: PDP-8 advertising "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-15 21:09 +0100
          Re: PDP-8 advertising Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-06-15 18:03 -0700
    Re: PDP-8 advertising Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-15 08:27 -0400
    Re: PDP-8 advertising Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-06-15 12:23 -0700
      Re: PDP-8 advertising hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-15 13:32 -0700
        Re: PDP-8 advertising Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-06-15 21:17 +0000
          Re: PDP-8 advertising Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-06-15 15:00 -0700
        Re: PDP-8 advertising "gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-06-15 22:24 +0100
          Re: PDP-8 advertising hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-16 13:29 -0700
        Re: PDP-8 advertising jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-16 12:30 +0000
          Re: PDP-8 advertising usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-17 07:37 +0000
            Re: PDP-8 advertising Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-17 08:27 +0000
              Re: PDP-8 advertising Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-17 08:31 +0000
        Re: PDP-8 advertising scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-06-16 12:48 +0000
        Re: PDP-8 advertising usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-17 03:37 +0000
          Re: PDP-8 advertising Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-06-17 07:40 +0000
            Re: PDP-8 advertising Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-06-17 12:32 -0400
              Re: PDP-8 advertising "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-06-18 09:41 -0500
                Re: PDP-8 advertising Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-06-18 15:34 -0400
                Re: PDP-8 advertising hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-18 13:25 -0700
          Re: PDP-8 advertising jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-06-17 12:53 +0000
            Re: PDP-8 advertising usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2016-06-18 07:10 +0000
              Re: PDP-8 advertising barrym95838@yahoo.com - 2016-06-18 01:07 -0700
    Re: PDP-8 advertising Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-06-16 10:03 -0400
      Re: PDP-8 advertising hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-06-16 13:33 -0700
        Re: PDP-8 advertising Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-06-16 17:24 -0400
        Re: PDP-8 advertising Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-06-16 18:28 -0400

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