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

[Rick DeNatale via TriLUG]

 When I was in college about, gulp, 50 years ago. I had access to a few DEC minicomputers.    One of my classmates took a summer job at a company which had a PDP-8. They were loading their entire program using the front panel switches. He introduced them to the idea of using a short program to load their program from a paper tape. That earned his pay for the summer!
 

 
 

 
 
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> On Mar 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM,  <Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed (mailto:triembed at triembed.org)>  wrote:
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>  Everyone will want one of these!
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>  I used one of these computers in college.
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>  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.]
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>  It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users could do it in 20 seconds.
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed  <triembed at triembed.org (mailto:triembed at triembed.org)>  wrote:
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> >   https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one
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> Gregg Tracton: tired, retired  &  inappropriately unattired (PJ's)
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