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Re: PDP-8 advertising

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: PDP-8 advertising
Date	2016-06-17 12:32 -0400
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Bob Eager wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:37:40 +0000, Questor wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:32:24 -0700 (PDT), hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 3:23:33 PM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>> Well, you just quoted advertisements; you didn't make any
>>>> controversial statements anyone would be inclined to correct.
>>>
>>> Years ago, some kids in school would somehow get access to a PDP
>>> machine.  I think it was the -8 (what was the most common PDP model 45
>>> years ago?)  They loved it.  Apparently, they could do a lot more than
>>> what we could do with BASIC or FORTRAN, or even mainframe assembler.
>>
>> Forty-five years ago the most common DEC machine would have been a
>> PDP-11.
>
> Not quite. It only came out 46 years ago, and wouldn't have been 'common'
> just a year later. There were more PDP-8s around.
>
I thought that time frame was wrong too, but wasn't certain.

I remember reading about 1975 an article in "73" about some high school 
kids who got the school's PDP-8 to send Morse code.  So I suspect if 
nothing else, by that time the 8s may have filtered down as the 11 came 
in, so the kids would have something to play with.

In my high school, when I arrived in 1972, or maybe shortly after, there 
was a computer class, taught by one of the math teachers.  But they had a 
TTY machine to a mainframe somewhere (perhaps the schoolboard owned it). 
I remember seeing the TTY machine, but don't remember much else, after a 
certain point I don't remember hearing about it, but I don't know if 
that's because things changed, or I just didn't hear anything.

   Michael

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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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