21 Feb
2008
21 Feb
'08
6:16 a.m.
Symmes, Dave wrote:
I tripped across this email link on a Google search.
I was the author of the original PDP-8 * "Introduction to
Programming", published in either late 1968 or early 1969. I hired
onto Digital straight out of college as a tech writer joining a
department of four writers for the whole company.
Almost 40 years later I am still with HP.
Great to hear from you.
My copy of "Introduction to Programming" shows:
First Printing, January 1969
Second Printing, July 1969
Copyright ? 1968, 1969
I found it a most useful book, though I had been programming PDP-8's
since 1965, even before the first PDP-8's actually appeared.
--
Alec McKenzie
alec at mckenzie.me.uk