The first computer I ever got to 'play' with was a PDP8/E in high school. 3 
teletypes and a dec writer for terminals. I loved the smell of paper tape in 
the morning!

-joe

On Monday, December 30, 2019 12:25:58 PM CST Nick wrote:
> Ooh. At 20:21 there's what looks suspiciously like a DEC PDP 8/E on the far 
> left...
> 
> On Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:53:32 UTC, Terry Bowman wrote:
> >
> > *What the Future Sounded Like* (twelve seconds in):
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkW8Ul7Q1I
> >
> >
> > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> > "The Mac Doctor"
> >
> > "For 30 years I have been trying to set the story straight about the name 
> > HAL coming from IBM with one letter added to each. That was 
> > pure coincidence. HAL stands for Heuristic Algorithmic computer."—Arthur C. 
> > Clarke, 2001
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


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