Another anecdote from my college days in the early 1970s.
One of the graduate students spent some time overseas in France.
One day someone got a package from him containing a mysterious roll of paper
tape which was black. I don’t think that any of us had seen such.
So someone fed it into one of the teletypes and printed it, revealing the
message:
IL SEMBLE QICI LES BANDES DE PAPIER SOIENT NOIRES
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> On Mar 3, 2020 at 9:23 PM, <Bill Trautman via TriEmbed
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> 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 :-)
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> On 3/2/2020 7:39 PM, Ken Boone via TriEmbed wrote:
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> > I think I have an original PDP 8 front panel at home.
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> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:16 AM Rodney Radford via TriEmbed
> > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
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> > > I am strongly considering buying one of these though...
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> > > https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/david-hansel/arduino-altair-8800-simulator-3594a6
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> > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:46 AM Gregg Tracton via TriEmbed
> > > <triembed@triembedorg (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
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> > > > Everyone will want one of these!
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> > > > I used one of these computers in college.
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> > > > 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.]
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It took a few minutes to get that sequence right. Experienced users
> > > > could do it in 20 seconds.
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> > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed
> > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
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> > > > > https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one
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