Re: Ah, the 'bad ol' days'

Dave, Jeff and the list,

Yep, I remember the PDP 8E. First machine I worked on after I got out
of the NAVY in '77. TTY's, LINC tape drives, later 8" floppies, 4K core
memory. I would have liked to had one of the old core planes! First
experience with stepper motors. We used them to drive a probe around in
a "water phantom" to plot radiation from medical 4Mev accelerator. 8080
Altair was MY machine!

Alan


dave engvall wrote:

>
> Jeff Barlow wrote:
>
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > There seem to be a lot of us walking antiques on this list. I go way
> > back to pre 8080 days, I'm afraid. 8 and 16 bit minis with real core,
> > etc. Same model 33 teletypes, though.
> >
> > BTW, I seem to recall 8" floppies, about mid 70's vintage, still have
> > some out in the garage somewhere, I think.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Age, what age, can't remember, can't count.
>
> My first attempt at programming was FORTRAN II on a PDP-8S with 4 K (words of 12 bit memory) and a ASR-33 as system, input and
> output device. Toggle boot, load loader, load system, load editor, edit , punch source, etc, etc.
> Still have 32 K board of REAL core from an '11-40' as well as a functional 11-23.
> So much for memory(s).
>
> Dave