Re: non-volatile core memory (was: PDP-8 hate)

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From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 22:17

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My friend Jack relates the story of the time he found a forlorn PDP-8
and powered it up. On an impluse he did a search of core memory, and
yup, the FOCAL interpreter was still there and could be run.

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From: k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: non-volatile core memory (was: PDP-8 hate)
Keywords: pdp-8
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Date: 5 Jan 90 22:17:07 GMT
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