I have a paper tape reader. Just the mechanical part no electronics On Tue, Mar 3, 2020, 9:23 PM Bill Trautman via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote:
> I think I still have a Paper Tape for a PDP8 from a summer class I took at > Lehigh University in 1978 as a rising Highschool Senior :-) > > On 3/2/2020 7:39 PM, Ken Boone via TriEmbed wrote: > > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > <[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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