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Article #625614Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Bill Findlay
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:49
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:49
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On 10 Aug 2018, Huge wrote (in article <ft6eqe...@mid.individual.net>): > On 2018-08-10, Bob Eager<news...@eager.cx> wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:45:34 +0000, Huge wrote: > > > > > On 2018-08-10, Bob Eager<news...@eager.cx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:46:30 +0000, Huge wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 2018-08-10, David Wade<g4ugm@dave.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > [24 lines snipped] > > > > > > > > > > > If one is looking for elegance in early machines, then the Ferranti > > > > > > Pegasus is an interesting starting point. According to Simon > > > > > > Lavington's book > > > > > > > > > > > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pegasus-Story-History-Vintage-Computer/ > > > > dp/1900747405 > > > > > Fascinating. Thank you! > > > > > > > > Must get that. Simon is great fun, and we have spent time in the pub > > > > together on more than one occasion. > > > > > > > > (Computer Conservation Society, monthly meetings near Covent Garden) > > > > > > When and where? I might be persuaded to schlep in from Norfolk for that! > > > > Southampton Street (BCS London offices). > > > > http://computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm > > > > I quite often go. Whatever the talk is, it's interesting. And so are the > > people. Sometimes end up in the pub afterwards. > > Ta! There will be a talk on ICL 1900 Series resurrection next month: Title: ICL 1900 Software Recovery Speaker: Bill Gallagher, Delwyn Holroyd & Brian Spoor Date: Thursday 20th September 2018 Time: 14:30 Location: BCS, 5 Southampton St, London WC2E 7HA I will be in the audience, having contributed to the restoration of 1900 Pascal: <http://www.findlayw.plus.com/ICL1900/index.html> -- Bill Findlay
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