11 Oct
2002
11 Oct
'02
10:09 p.m.
Hans B Pufal wrote:
For the PDP-8 we have the CPU box, no terminal. I
loaded a 30
instruction program to calculate the average of a sequnece of numbers
entered on the keys. It takes about 15 minutes of so to teach a group
of kids to enter binary numbers and read the result. The most common
comment (before we start) is : "Where's the screen and keyboard?"
I
can understand why :-)
OTOH, I do like the glow of a set of blinkenlights while I'm coding. Shame I
still need a few bargraph LED displays and a random number generator to
duplicate the effect on my PC...
Later.
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Phil.
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