5 Mar
2002
5 Mar
'02
8:23 a.m.
--- John Chris Wren <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote:
This sounds like a machine I used to work on.
PDP-8/a, two floppy
drives, a VT-50 terminal that looked like it could have been provisioned
for an internal thermal printer, and ours had a LA-36.
Yep... they sold a bunch of them. The printer inside the VT-50 case
wasn't thermal, BTW. The "1976-1977 pdp-8/a minicomputer handbook" calls
it an "electrolytic copier" under the entry for the VT-61. My memory of
working with them was that they used funky paper and there was a wet
wiper brush that moistened the paper as it exited the printer. Perhaps
it squeegeed it. I don't recall any more.
We ran two OS's in it... It was pretty neat, at
the time. I don't miss
it at all.
I can understand that, but still; I wish _I_ had had the opportunity to
have been paid to work with PDP-8s.
-ethan
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