Lecture: Get to know the PDP-8 through emulation, 2021-04-10, 19:00

[Adrian Stoness]

you guys have a facebook group no? or am i thinking of another group?

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:09 PM Anke Stüber via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> you're invited to the Update computer club[0] public lecture series
> "Updateringar"[1]! Update is a Swedish computer club founded in 1983
> whose members tinker with all kinds of computers, from Raspberry Pi to
> PDP-12. The club has a big collection of historic computers. In this
> lecture series we'll talk about everything related to computers:
> Historic and modern computers, operating systems, programming, hardware
> projects, creating art with computers, building a computer museum, and
> more. We'll start with a classic: the PDP-8.
>
> When:  2021-04-10, 19:00 CEST
> Where: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8
>
> Get to know the PDP-8 through emulation
> An emulator is a program that pretends to be a computer different from
> the one the emulator is executing on. This allows execution of software
> intended for a physical computer that you do not have. In this talk
> Pontus will explain the basics by implementing a fully working PDP-8
> emulator and explaining each instruction and feature along the way. The
> end result is a working emulator in less than 1000 lines of C code. And
> hopefully you will walk away with both an understanding of the classic
> PDP-8 computer and emulation.
> Pontus Pihlgren (Update)
>
> The lecture is free and open to everyone.
>
> Upcoming: 2021-05-08, 19:00: Forth on microcontrollers. Crest (CCCHB)
>
> Hope to see you there,
> Anke
>
> [0] http://www.update.uu.se/index_eng.html
> [1] https://www.update.uu.se/wiki/doku.php/projekt:updateringar
>