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Article #620792Re: Nostalgia
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:01
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:01
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On 15/02/2018 19:47, Jon Elson wrote: > Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: > >> Gazing at my bookcase and noting a 1971 copy of the >> PDP8's Small Computer Handbook. >> >> That was 47 years ago, and then 47 years before then >> takes us back to 1924, well before the days of any >> working programmable machines (pace the Jacquard Loom) >> >> Now that the Raspberry Pi 3 gives us a quadcore 64 bit >> processor with 1GB of RAM for only a few £ / $, I realise that a lot of >> our nostalgia and folklore of those days is for something >> very primitive compare to today's offerings > Oh, yeah! I started out working on 12-bit discrete transistor minis like > the PDP-5 and LINC, and even fiddled a bit with a Bendix G-15 (vacuum tube > and drum memory). And, took programming classes on the univerity's IBM > 360/50, editing programs on punch cards. BLECH!! > > Even the uVAX-II I put together in 1986 and ran for about 21 years was some > 1000 X slower than an ordinary desktop PC. > ISTR some very slow instructions on the PDP11-20; my first hands-on experience as a paid university vacation intern in 1971 in the Scientific Services Department sited at Portishead Power Station ... HALT indefinite! RESET 20 milliSecs BICB @(REG)+ , @(REG)+ 18uSecs.
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