9 Jan
2007
9 Jan
'07
3:52 p.m.
Austin Pass wrote:
P.S. The guys at the museum have hooked it up to a PC,
so that programs
written on the emulator can be loaded into the baby to be run. Does this
qualify it as the world?s most ancient add-on / peripheral / co-processor?
;-)
I say dump the PC ... go for better I/O as we all know the PC has more
software/hardware down time than the Baby. I consider this a good way
to demo a computer system ... in this case a PDP 8. http://www.pdp8.net/
.
The main problem with machines like the Baby is that they need to be seen
live rather than some emulation on a PC to get the real feel for what was
done at the time.