🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:11:06 +0000, jmfbahciv wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:49:01 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:54:14 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>>>>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 24/01/2018 20:45, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Although it doesn't hav ethat much practical use, this is my
>>>>>>> favourite,
>>>>>>> of the computers I own - probably because of the blinkenlights!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.tavi.co.uk/sbc6120.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've yet to assemble it (Never put off till tomorrow what you can
>>>>>> put off till the day after) but bought one of these ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> For some reason the -8 seems to be more of an object of nostalgia
>>>>> than the -11. I never warmed up to the -8, not so much because the
>>>>> instruction set was limited but because a lot of it seemed so
>>>>> random.
>>>>
>>>> I like the minimal instruction set.
>>>>
>>>> I've had so much to do with PDP-11s (and the big -11s, aka VAXes)
>>>> that the small, word oriented nature of the -8 makes a change. I
>>>> always wanted to play with one, and now I can.
>>>>
>>>> I wrote a lot of Macro-11 and Macro-32, not to mention compilers for
>>>> those machines. And I own four -11s and three VAXes.
>>>>
>>>> I really liked the -10. Want more time to play on that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> emulator available. Now there are so many emulators available it's
>>> hard to pick. Last year I played with TSS/370, this year Multics.
>>
>> Oh, I have the emulator. Just not the time. I had a year using a KA-10
>> many years ago. Did quite a bit of Macro-10.
> 
> Were you allowed to be in the machine room and play with the switches?
> Working by the KA-10 was similar to playing a piano.

Unfortunately not. But I have seen a real KA-10 console; it's exhibited 
in the Science Museum in London (I was allowed hands-on access, for 
another project, to a DDP-516 console in the same cabinet).

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