Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 12/6/2005 8:55 PM Frank Filippone said the following: > Youngster....PDP-8. Rocker switches for the BIOS, Punch tape for the > program. ... PDP-8 used dang modern transistors - useless. The IBM 704 had real valves - glowed in the dark, too. 36 bit words - none of these sissy 8-bit bytes. Valves sound better, film looks better. In 1962 it was the biggest computer in South Africa. All 8K words of it. -- Clive Blog: http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html