14 Dec
2003
14 Dec
'03
8:59 p.m.
... opens with some very pretty PDP-8 stuff, a VT52?, a woman mounting
dectapes....
The movie of course!
15 Dec
15 Dec
1:01 a.m.
On 14 Dec 2003, Tom Jennings wrote:
... opens with some very pretty PDP-8 stuff, a VT52?,
a woman mounting
dectapes....
The movie of course!
What else ;-) I've recorded it on a SVHS tape for better quality. You can
even see the woman verifying the start address of 7605 (or was it 7600?)
before pressing CONT.
Another interesting movie is "The angry red planet", a SF movie from the
late fifties. The main computer on board of the space craft is a huge
Borroughs tube computer, with operator console and reel tape drives. It's
fun to see the tubes glowing, at least you get that impression and to
watch the tapes moving.
Does anybody know the model of the computer?
Christian
6:48 a.m.
Christian Corti wrote:
On 14 Dec 2003, Tom Jennings wrote:
This is the classic si-fi computer. The B-205.
See link. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/B205/
BTW I have yet to find good programing information on it
as a classic computer.
... opens with some very pretty PDP-8 stuff, a
VT52?, a woman mounting
dectapes....
The movie of course!
What else ;-) I've recorded it on a SVHS tape for better quality. You can
even see the woman verifying the start address of 7605 (or was it 7600?)
before pressing CONT.
Another interesting movie is "The angry red planet", a SF movie from the
late fifties. The main computer on board of the space craft is a huge
Borroughs tube computer, with operator console and reel tape drives. It's
fun to see the tubes glowing, at least you get that impression and to
watch the tapes moving.
Does anybody know the model of the computer?
10:58 a.m.
I assume we want actual computers, not S.F. fakies.
a couple more:
Gog
Supposedly an evil IBM, haven't seen for years.
Charly
The main character becomes aware of his mortality,
so takes up programming a big mainframe to find a
cure.
John A.
11:30 a.m.
You mean Hal-9000 is not a real computer?
Yeah and those tablet computers (Chess player, Status
monitor, etc) in '2001' are almost exactly what we have
now today as the next-new thing, basically just rotate
the 2003 version 90 degrees and Kubrick was right
~35 years early.
John A.
11:59 a.m.
Yeah and those tablet computers (Chess player, Status
monitor, etc) in '2001' are almost exactly what we have
now today as the next-new thing, basically just rotate
the 2003 version 90 degrees and Kubrick was right
~35 years early.
The unique mistake was to believe in one continous interest
in the moon. But it was so logical in the sixtees...
With independence of this, I believe in a HAL's replica more
everyday.
CHeers
Sergio
12:24 p.m.
SP wrote:
The unique mistake was to believe in one continous interest
in the moon. But it was so logical in the sixtees...
With independence of this, I believe in a HAL's replica more
everyday.
So where will you find a guy named Dave to test it on.
Anyhow I thought Hal-9000 was self programing.
Ben.
7:48 p.m.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, John Allain wrote:
We had the knowledge and the drive to make his vision a reality but we
decided to put our efforts into other things (i.e. war).
Gee, times have not changed one bit since then.
<sigh>
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You mean
Hal-9000 is not a real computer?
Yeah and those tablet computers (Chess player, Status
monitor, etc) in '2001' are almost exactly what we have
now today as the next-new thing, basically just rotate
the 2003 version 90 degrees and Kubrick was right
~35 years early. 
1:07 p.m.
What else ;-) I've recorded it on a SVHS tape for
better quality. You can
even see the woman verifying the start address of 7605 (or was it 7600?)
before pressing CONT.
[Looks to right hand end of desk]
My 8/e's panel swtiches are currently set to 7600, which IIRC is the
re-entry point for OS8
-tony
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allain＠panix.com -
ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk -
bfranchuk＠jetnet.ab.ca -
Christian.Corti＠studserv.uni-stuttgart.de -
spedraja＠ono.com -
tomj＠wps.com -
vcf＠siconic.com