No Ken Olsen thread?

[Churchill]

Wasn't a PDP 11/780 a VAX? It seems so long ago...

Dunno, I always thought the 11/780 was a VAX, not a PDP by virtue of the fact that it had the "Virtual Address eXtension".

[Doggy Styles]

Dunno, I always thought the 11/780 was a VAX, not a PDP by virtue of the fact that it had the "Virtual Address eXtension".

Ah, you're probably right. Whenever I see the number 11, I think of PDP.

[NickFitz]

New fangled Vaxen, bring back the PDPs!!!

WHS

This:

was what I started on

[zeitghost]

I started with one of these:



It's a Modular One computer.

(The one in Luffbra was rather smaller though. A whole 4k of core, ASR33, tape reader, tape punch, bistable screen VDU.

And FORTRAN loaded from paper tape.

Them were the days.

That's proper paper tape from the look of it.

The stuff that tears if you step on the end.

For programming test equipment, we used mylar.

One unfortunate purchasing disaster was the metallised stuff that would give you severe static shocks as it loaded.



Popular things these mod ones.

Impressive flares on the chaps in the first photo.

Some more on the CTL Modular One:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comput...nology_Limited

[Churchill]

I started with one of these:



It's a Modular One computer.

(The one in Luffbra was rather smaller though. A whole 4k of core, ASR33, tape reader, tape punch, bistable screen VDU.

And FORTRAN loaded from paper tape.

Them were the days.

Caption competition!!!


Oi Milan, sort that ******* tape out I can smell the Wumpus!