23 Mar
2015
23 Mar
'15
11:59 a.m.
It was fun firing up a PDP-8e at my buddy's, the system had an RK-05j and we used a
VT-240 terminal.
I was amazed how fat OS/8 loaded and works.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 22, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Brian L. Stuart
<blstuart at bellsouth.net> wrote:
From what I've been able to find, it was 50 years ago today
that the PDP-8 was officially launched. So Happy Birthday
to a machine that had such significant influence on so many
of us. And a big Thank You to all those who helped to create
it.
In recognition of this anniversary, the PDP-8/M restoration
I'm doing (on S/N 07082) reached the stage today where I
connected a terminal and was able to push characters in and
out of it. Even as I type this, it's running the print test program
from the maintenance manual printing ASCII characters on
a terminal.
Happy PDP-8 Day, everyone!
BLS