French to Googlish: "IT SEEMS THAT THE STRIPS OF PAPER ARE BLACK"The strangest paper tape episode I had was coming into a Uni lab after a weekend to find an ASR33 bolted to a wall below the ceiling. A giant loop of tape (ends taped together w overlapping sprocket holes) was fed through the reader. It was being used as a ROM with a computer that had no other memory apart from core. I swear it's true. About 1973.Pete -------- Original message --------From: Rick DeNatale via TriEmbed <[email protected]> Date: 3/4/20 2:01 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Wft <[email protected]> Cc: Triembed <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Need a PDP 11 of your own? 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 NOIRESOn Mar 3, 2020 at 9:23 PM, <Bill Trautman via TriEmbed> 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> 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
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