10 May
2000
10 May
'00
7:12 p.m.
Well, I'm using a VAX to teach my daughter C programming. She likes
having the "weird" computer all to herself. (I'll have to get after her
about playing rogue though :-) I taught her binary/assembly on the
PDP-8. So far the ideal cirriculum seems to be:
Cardiac - basic computer concepts
PDP-8 - Cardiac in hardware :-)
VAX - High level languages
I'll probably use the PDP-11/23 to teach her about operating systems
because it has such an easy to use MMU that one can grasp it fairly
quickly.
--Chuck
George Rachor wrote:
The space heater concept isn't lost on me here. The machines would go in
a fairly large garage. Winters would be fine. It is the summer that I
would worry about.
George
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George L. Rachor Jr. george(a)racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
> >
> > Other ideas?
>
> Since the old computers will waste tons of electricity, while producing
> relatively no cpu power in comparison to a modern CPU chip, you should
> use your connected group as a space heater.
>
> >
> > Does this even make sense?
>
> Yes. The only 100% efficient electrical appliance, is a heater. Since
> by definition, it is supposed to convert electricity into waste, ie,
> heat or other forms that eventually will become heat ;)
>
> -Lawrence LeMay
>