[TriLUG] [TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own?

[Rodney Radford via TriLUG]

I am strongly considering buying one of these though...

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/david-hansel/arduino-altair-8800-simulator-3594a6


On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed <
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> Everyone will want one of these!
>
> I used one of these computers in college.
>
> For those under the age of 50: to start up this gem, first introduced in
> the 1970's, you turn on the power and manually type in the 16 (or so)
> instructions that tell the machine to load the OS (operating system), using
> the toggle switches on the front. Yes, we were entering binary manually: it
> had no keyboard (or mouse) -- this part, plus a disk, is the whole
> machine.  [You could attach a terminal.]
>
> It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users could
> do it in 20 seconds.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed <
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>> https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one
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