8 Feb
2016
8 Feb
'16
1:01 p.m.
This reminds me that last year when MARCH (Mid-Atlantic Retro
Computing Hobbyists) restored a PDP-8 that had come from a high school
computing club, they dumped the magnetic core memory and found three
programs:
1. A program to dump memory contents to paper tape
2. Some common utilities for debugging
3. At address 200 there was a program that had a fatal bug in it, but
had the young high school programmer been successful in fixing it, it
would've printed out the string "COMPUTERS ARE SHIT."
-Dan
On 2/8/16, Christian Groessler <ccmpcpg at yahoo.de> wrote:
On 02/07/16 09:31, nico at farumdata.dk wrote:
I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it
it never does quite what I want
but only what I tell it
I'm still working on a "do-what-I-want" program. It's difficult to
implement...
But I already have a good idea of the layout of the GUI version:
Just one big red button in the middle of the window with description "Do
what I want".
:-)
regards,
chris