On 2/18/2016 11:03 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Bill Horne <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Bill, who thinks that loading FOCAL from paper tape is the true
test of computer wizardry!
I guess i was pampered, the EDUSYS on which i ran FOCAL had a tiny
boot drive (and DECtape). It also had FORTRAN II, the one with the
ternary-branch IF.
(Rumor was this higher-end EDUSYS was actually a PDP-11 under the
hood, unlike the lower end EDUSYS educational-discount PDP-8's. One
had 3 ASR-33 s attached, and the 32k memorey was in two banks, so it
was assigned 6k ROM, 10K tty0, 8K+8K tty1+2; except the day i got in
first and booted it so TTY0 got all the high bank 16k and the other
tty's got 5k each. The T.A. was bemused and noted which projects had
so few comments they still fit in 5k.)
I did my first Assembler course on a PDP-8 Edusystem at UMass-Boston in
1977. Those were the days!
I was offered a job on the west coast, and I gave away my 8" floppy to a
friend. Wish I'd kept it. Come to think of it, I have a case of 5.25"
floppies somewhere - amazing what you find when you're moving. Anyone
interested?
Bill, who had to shovel snow last month.
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Bill Horne
828-678-1548
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