25 Jun
2008
25 Jun
'08
3:49 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:11:12PM +0100, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 25/06/2008 18:44, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Wow! A school with -8s and -11s?!? All we had in the early-80s was
a couple of Trash-80s and an ancient Wang programmable calculator that
nobody knew how to get working (all replaced after I left with a room
full of DEC Rainbows :-/ ). I did get to play with an -8/L in High
School, but it was one I bought myself at Dayton that was just the
CPU - no TTY, no *anything* - just lights and switches - quite educational,
really.
I had some friends who went to a well-funded suburban school that had
their own HP1000, and some other friends had a couple of LA-36s with
acoustic couplers that dialed into a RSTS machine of some unknown sort,
but I think any of us would have been in heaven to have a DEC mini on
the premises.
*Four* -8s... what kind? Any disk or tape, or just TTYs and papertape?
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-333-S Current South Pole Weather at 25-Jun-2008 at 22:40 Z
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PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -85.4 F (-65.2 C) Windchill -118.2 F (-83.4 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 7.0 kts Grid 95 Barometer 680.4 mb (10613 ft)
Ethan.Dicks at usap.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html
I've finally dug my copy out... with the
Craigmount Secondary
School Library tag in the inside cover ;-)
I will have used that very copy at some point. I used to work at
Craigmount, and I remember the four -8s they had quite fondly. Andrew
Watt also had an HP2000 system, and later an Apple ][, a very early
Beeb, and after the -8s a couple of -11s.