Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ho!, history lessons - takes me back a while, really nostalgic we ran CDC 3000 series, moved on to 6600, and had a pile of PDP-11s and later VAXs for small stuff, then a Cyber (780?)and, before they closed us down, one of the first Cray XMPs. The PDPs were the only machines that would still run in a container in a damp field in Holland without a cooling system, tough machines. My computer life started with punched tapes and cards, often the rubber band holding the card deck together snapped on the way to the input room, (wasn't it just fun resorting them to get your job back together), went on through tapes to cartridges and exabytes and even CDs - now the whole geophysical stuff is done on clusters, as much number crunching capacity as the Cray but about the size of the old tape drive cabinets we used on the PDPs. An ex-colleague now has the Cray gracing his party cellar - it always did look like a piece of modern furniture anyway. Douglas Richard wrote: > You have punch tapes? How advanced! We only program in 1s and 0s, and > sometimes we run out of 1s!!! > > At 06:55 PM 12/6/2005, you wrote: > >> Youngster....PDP-8. Rocker switches for the BIOS, Punch tape for the >> program. >> >> Frank Filippone >> red735i@earthlink.net >> >> Ah for the joys of PDP-11 >> assembler! >> >> adam >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, > please use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >