On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:11:41 +1300 (NZDT) Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > luxury, the first computer i used had to be bootstrapped with a hex > > keypad then loaded from hand fed punch cards or a paper tape reader. the > > output was a row of led's until you got the os loaded, then you got a > > teletype. > > http://www.pdp11.org ??? > > Those were the days. burble burble... real computers... burble... youth of > today... it was a computer built by engineering dept at Auckland uni and donated to nelson college (presumably by an old boy engineer). Lissajous patterns on a 80 column teletype *sigh* (we used a lot of the rolls of teletype paper) Actually the real gun on it was Tim Bell, now an Assoc Professor of Comp Sci at Canterbury Uni, and i understand a friend of this group when it comes to installfests etc :-) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
