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Article #613Re: non-volatile core memory (was: PDP-8 hate)
From: Charles Green
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 22:07
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 22:07
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A fellow I knew in college (late 70's) had a Nova computer, apparently from
his high school (seems nobody else could run the thing so, when he left, he
got to take it!). He'd drag it out of his closet, hook it up to the ASCII
terminal (which was an RCA TV and a wire-wrapped board he'd built), power it
on, and there was his BASIC interpreter and everything else he'd had in the
machine the last time...
In article <129...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> acm@sun.UUCP (Andrew MacRae) writes:
>In article<1990Jan5.2...@cs.rochester.edu>k...@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>>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.
>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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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cucstud!c3pe!charles From: charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: non-volatile core memory (was: PDP-8 hate) Summary: Nova computers had 'em, too... Keywords: nova core basic Message-ID: <8275@c3pe.UUCP> Date: 6 Jan 90 22:07:07 GMT References: <129595@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3963@brazos.Rice.edu> <2787@client1.DRETOR.UUCP> <673@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl> <1990Jan5.221707.16918@cs.rochester.edu> <129948@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) Organization: C3 Incorporated, Herndon, VA Lines: 17 Posted: Sat Jan 6 23:07:07 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit