Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds terribly familiar, Douglas. I went: analog, 6400, 6600, 7600, Cray-1S serial 1 (I think), masses of Cybers etc etc, Big Vaxes, PDPs (I handbuilt some of the early micro-PDPs) and loads and loads of others. Rei's Hollertith card sounds interesting/amusing ;_) well if you get amusement out of such things!!!! Isn't the LUG wonderful Peter Douglas Sharp wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >