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

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From: a... Andrew MacRae
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 01:27

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In article <1990Jan5.2...@cs.rochester.edu> k...@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>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.

I had heard a similar story, one where a PDP-8 arrived with the diagnostic
program still in core.  The guy telling the story had claimed to just start
it back up running fine after being shipped across the country.  I didn't
believe it at the time.

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From: a...@grendal.Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae)
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Subject: Re: non-volatile core memory (was: PDP-8 hate)
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Date: 6 Jan 90 01:27:19 GMT
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