[Tig] More memories please

[Michael Bittle]

On Dec 17, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Rob Lingelbach wrote:

> but there were DECs (the PDP 8 and 11) at this time... as Bob Lund
> points out in a subsequent post.
>

Ahhh, fond memories of the high school computer class field trip to  
DEC's mill building in Maynard MA.  After the tour, they let us loose  
in a lab and we each had our own PDP-8 to play with for the  
afternoon.  Scary thing... I think I still have the programmer's  
reference card.. along with some PDP-11/44 manuals from later  
endeavors at GenRad.

For years my dream computer was a PDP-8 w/64K RAM,  ASR-33 and a  
Fortran Compiler (anyone remember the Heathkit versions?).  You could  
do *anything* with that!!

This is fun ; )

Cheers,
Mike


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