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Subject: Re: PDP-8
Message-ID: <380@ektools.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 08:12:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 08:12:06 1986
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Reply-To: john@ektools.UUCP (John H. Hall)
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In article <2007@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>This posting brought back many fond memories; the first machine I ever did
>any systems programming on was a PDP-8, and as an undergraduate I spent
>many hours disassembling a very primitive OS that ran on that machine in
>order to learn how it worked. (I was thinking the other day that I wished
>I had one of them now, in fact, just for sentimental reasons!)

I've been looking for a cheap, non-operational '8' in a 'desktop' cabinet.
I intend to gut the box, put legs on it, and mount a lamp sticking up from
the middle of the top.  It'll make a fine floor lamp for my computer room.
(My computer room already has an IBM 360/50 front panel hanging on the wall
--- 1960's industrial art!)



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