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I had to learn PDP-8 assember by reading the book.

On 02/18/2016 12:03 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
> On 2/18/2016 11:03 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net
>> <mailto:bill at horne.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Bill, who thinks that loading FOCAL from paper tape is the true
>>     test of computer wizardry!
>>
>>
>> ? I guess i was pampered, the EDUSYS on which i ran FOCAL had a tiny
>> boot drive (and DECtape). It also had FORTRAN II, the one with the
>> ternary-branch IF.
>>
>> (Rumor was this higher-end EDUSYS was actually a PDP-11 under the
>> hood, unlike the lower end EDUSYS educational-discount PDP-8's. One
>> had 3 ASR-33 s attached, and the 32k memorey was in two banks, so it
>> was assigned 6k ROM, 10K tty0, 8K+8K tty1+2; except the day i got in
>> first and booted it so TTY0 got all the high bank 16k and the other
>> tty's got 5k each. The T.A. was bemused and noted which projects had
>> so few comments they still fit in 5k.)?
>
> I did my first Assembler course on a PDP-8 Edusystem at UMass-Boston
> in 1977. Those were the days!
>
> I was offered a job on the west coast, and I gave away my 8" floppy to
> a friend. Wish I'd kept it. Come to think of it, I have a case of
> 5.25" floppies somewhere - amazing what you find when you're moving.
> Anyone interested?
>
> Bill, who had to shovel snow last month.
>

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