22 Mar
2015
22 Mar
'15
4:15 p.m.
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