Re: Looking for a document regarding PDP8

2020-04-22 Thread Doug Jackson via cctalk
Is it possible to share the link. On Wed, 22 Apr. 2020, 3:38 pm Bob Smith via cctalk, wrote: > I found the referenced paper, wrong authors - it was Bell and > Casasent, in a cache paper, a bit earlier than 78 > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:17 PM Bob Smith wrote: > > > > Nice! > > BUT no my

Re: Looking for a document regarding PDP8

2020-04-21 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
I found the referenced paper, wrong authors - it was Bell and Casasent, in a cache paper, a bit earlier than 78 On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:17 PM Bob Smith wrote: > > Nice! > BUT no my BigMac is a Mac Pro 1,1 tweaked with TB of disk with my old > files on it. > I call it BigMac cause it is about

Re: Looking for a document regarding PDP8

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
thanks! On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 5:48 PM Len Shustek via cctalk wrote: > > At 10:00 AM 4/17/2020, Bob Smith wrote: > >...I believe sometime in the late 70s, maybe as late as 1980, a prof > >associated with UMass wrote a paper describing an extension of the > >PDP8 called 8/X or 8X. > >...I

Re: Looking for a document regarding PDP8

2020-04-16 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
Nice! BUT no my BigMac is a Mac Pro 1,1 tweaked with TB of disk with my old files on it. I call it BigMac cause it is about the same weight as the full chassis PDP8/e I had at DEC that I lugged from one spot to another. I did power it up and ran a number of searches, two more machines and 8 more

Re: Looking for a document regarding PDP8

2020-04-16 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/16/20 10:12 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: I am bout to pull out my BigMac that might have the data in it. As in the Apple 68020 Rich Page computer? If so, I'd REALLY like to get a copy of the disk image to use on the BigMac that the museum has.

Looking for a document regarding PDP8

2020-04-16 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
I have posed this question to the 8lovers list, and folks seemed to misunderstand. So let me try here. I believe sometime in the late 70s, maybe as late as 1980, a prof associated with UMass wrote a paper describing an extension of the PDP8 called 8/X or 8X. THIS IS NOT the Pre Nova/DG machine