I think I have an original PDP 8 front panel at home. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:16 AM Rodney Radford via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote:
> I am strongly considering buying one of these though... > > > https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/david-hansel/arduino-altair-8800-simulator-3594a6 > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed < > triembed@triembedorg <[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Everyone will want one of these! >> >> I used one of these computers in college. >> >> For those under the age of 50: to start up this gem, first introduced in >> the 1970's, you turn on the power and manually type in the 16 (or so) >> instructions that tell the machine to load the OS (operating system), using >> the toggle switches on the front. Yes, we were entering binary manually: it >> had no keyboard (or mouse) -- this part, plus a disk, is the whole machine >> [You could attach a terminal.] >> >> It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users could >> do it in 20 seconds. >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >>> >>> To post message: [email protected] >>> List info: >>> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >>> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org >>> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >>> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Gregg Tracton: tired, retired & inappropriately unattired (PJ's) >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: >> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > >
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