22 May
2020
22 May
'20
3:56 p.m.
On 5/22/20 3:24 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 5/22/2020 6:06 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
I would gladly catch it and put it to good use. I still have
PDP-11's, VAX, TRS-80's and Apple ]['s in my house. I have
had an Apollo, a Prime, a couple 3B2's, several 3B1's and other
systems I can barely remember. All were and still remain more
interesting and more fun that today's PC's.
bill
On 5/22/20 2:56 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
wrote:
Thows a PDP 8 to Bill. Batteries and BASIC not included.
Ducks. Now that is really cool. Good old MS
In '83 I was working for DEC and had access to things like BASIC+.
I was amazed at what they could do on a micoprocessor.
In my early days :-)? I was given a project to develop programs
for an LSI-11/02 with 28KW of memory and RX02 8" floppies.? I
got the project because the mainframe programmers I worked with
did not believe anything serious could be done in a machine that
small.? I developed programs that later e\went production using
MACRO-11, Pascal, Fortran and COBOL.? I doubt the products of
modern computer science education could duplicate what I did.
Efficiency is no longer a consideration.? Just throw more hardware
at the problem.
bill