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Churchill replied

9 February 2011, 09:21
Originally posted by zeitghost View Post

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!
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zeitghost replied

9 February 2011, 09:18
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

Last edited by zeitghost; 25 April 2017, 11:32.
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NickFitz replied

8 February 2011, 18:12
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

New fangled Vaxen, bring back the PDPs!!!

WHS

This:

was what I started on
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Doggy Styles replied

8 February 2011, 13:53
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

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.
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Churchill replied

8 February 2011, 12:55
Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

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".
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Doggy Styles replied

8 February 2011, 12:50
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

New fangled Vaxen, bring back the PDPs!!!

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

8 February 2011, 12:18
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

q!

:q!
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Churchill replied

8 February 2011, 12:07
Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

Remember vi? I'm still using the perishing thing.

Wasn't TECO supposed to be the really horrific one? Never used it, but I heard you could easily wipe a text file beyond recovery by a single misplaced comma or full stop.

q!
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OwlHoot replied

8 February 2011, 11:46
Originally posted by pacharan View Post

Remember Eve and Vi?

Remember vi? I'm still using the perishing thing.

Wasn't TECO supposed to be the really horrific one? Never used it, but I heard you could easily wipe a text file beyond recovery by a single misplaced comma or full stop.
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Flubster replied

8 February 2011, 11:25
Originally posted by pacharan View Post

Remember Eve and Vi?

EDT all the way. Editing with the 'Gold' button. Magical days...
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pacharan replied

8 February 2011, 11:24
Remember Eve and Vi?
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stek replied

8 February 2011, 11:08
VAX was ace!!

We had them on the reactors when I was in the nuclear industry, along with some VAX-ELN things - embedded VAX in 1992....
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Churchill replied

8 February 2011, 10:56
Originally posted by singhr View Post

All the heroes of my youth are slowly dying off.

Programming DEC-Vax's in the 80's - happy days.

New fangled Vaxen, bring back the PDPs!!!
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singhr replied

8 February 2011, 10:06
All the heroes of my youth are slowly dying off.

Programming DEC-Vax's in the 80's - happy days.
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lilelvis2000 started a topic No Ken Olsen thread?

8 February 2011, 09:39
No Ken Olsen thread?

Founder of DEC dead

Computer pioneer Ken Olsen dies - The Boston Globe

Wikipedia already updated - damn they are fast.
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