Lester Caine wrote: > Kent A. Reed wrote: >> Stuart and Jon: >> >> You got me with your talk of PDP11 memory tests and "insanely complex >> systems with PDP-11s with hundreds of ISR addresses"...I was immediately >> transported back to the 1970s. I still have the tactile memory of keying >> in the bootstrap loader from the front panel, over and over and over, as >> we debugged our laboratory control programs, and keying in our patches >> because it was too time consuming to reassemble and link code in our >> "high speed" punched papertape environment. I have also worked with >> PDP8s, HP2100s, DG Novas, and even Interdata minis, but I loved the >> PDP11 the most. > > Some time ago I worked at Macro Marketing - a component distributor who > is part of Avnet now I think. > They had 120 terminals run by a PDP11/70 which ran the entire sales > floor and shipping process. It was at the limit of what it could handle, > but did work. > It was replaced while I was there by a 'little' Amdalh system - 4 linked > processors - I don't think they ever got some of the old facilities > restored on the new system ;) > The funny thing was, while the sales floor had the PDP11, I was running > a VAX for designing semi-custom product. That only had one user on it :)
All this nostalgia set me thinking .... I had a silly text graphic based Dungeon and Dragon game on the VAX. It used to while away the lunch hour ;) anybody know if it's still available. I can't even remember the name now :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
