you guys have a facebook group no? or am i thinking of another group? On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:09 PM Anke Stüber via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > you're invited to the Update computer club[0] public lecture series > "Updateringar"[1]! Update is a Swedish computer club founded in 1983 > whose members tinker with all kinds of computers, from Raspberry Pi to > PDP-12. The club has a big collection of historic computers. In this > lecture series we'll talk about everything related to computers: > Historic and modern computers, operating systems, programming, hardware > projects, creating art with computers, building a computer museum, and > more. We'll start with a classic: the PDP-8. > > When: 2021-04-10, 19:00 CEST > Where: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8 > > Get to know the PDP-8 through emulation > An emulator is a program that pretends to be a computer different from > the one the emulator is executing on. This allows execution of software > intended for a physical computer that you do not have. In this talk > Pontus will explain the basics by implementing a fully working PDP-8 > emulator and explaining each instruction and feature along the way. The > end result is a working emulator in less than 1000 lines of C code. And > hopefully you will walk away with both an understanding of the classic > PDP-8 computer and emulation. > Pontus Pihlgren (Update) > > The lecture is free and open to everyone. > > Upcoming: 2021-05-08, 19:00: Forth on microcontrollers. Crest (CCCHB) > > Hope to see you there, > Anke > > [0] http://www.update.uu.se/index_eng.html > [1] https://www.update.uu.se/wiki/doku.php/projekt:updateringar >
