Re: (ET) Walking down memory lane on old stuff

[Steve Welch <oneoldbird icloud com>]

Surely there's an app for that...?

:^)

On Jun 16, 2014, at 6:43 PM, CZ Unit <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:

> On 6/16/2014 6:31 PM, Neil Dennis wrote:
>> Ain't it fun reminiscing, Max ?  PDP8's were the first computers we used
>> as work related controllers for testing ignition system stuff.  I
>> scrounged up Fortran for programming, yup, paper tape and teletype to
>> input code  - neat at that time. Remember the bit switch settings to
>> "boot" ??
> 
> 
> That would be the RIM loader. Yep. You would use RIM to load the BIN 
> loader which could then load just about anything. I have to get this 8/E 
> running, so much simpler than an 8i it's amazing. I could probably key 
> it in from memory on a rocker switch set 6014, 6011, 5357, 6016...
> 
> The real fun system though was the KA10 series of mainframes. The first 
> 18 words of memory were the register, and they could be addressed *as* 
> memory. Since they were bipolar flip flops, you would code your central 
> subroutine in <18 words (36 bit words) and run in the registers instead 
> of core. 10 times the speed :-)
> 
> C
> 
> 
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