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| From | gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | A naked PDP11 |
| Date | 2020-09-16 13:11 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rjsvdd$jji$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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. What technical advances were made during that previous 49 years! Perhaps even greater advances have been made in computing in the next 49 years up till now such that those of us who were extant in 1971 have now been described, somewhat unkindly, as dinosaurs. Not during that internship, but in subsequent employment in the same place, when the first Decwriter was delivered, the pallet upon which it was attached was not some conglomeration of roughly cut timbers but was a two sheets of high quality 3/4" thick plywood. The pallet was scrapped and was mde by me and the wife into our first bookcase which we still have to this day. I did have cause to panic on one occasion when the covers were off, and I dropped a screwdriver onto the wire-wrapped backplane of the DecTapes when power was applied. On another occasion, I was in the processor box with a small screwdriver to adjust the clock that drove the Teletype serial port. ***** I did read somewhere that the seminal background work for the Field Effect Transistor happened in about 1910. Is this post a wind-up? Only to help your day go like clockwork! :-)
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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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