Paging Toby Thain [was RE: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]]

2016-03-03 Thread Rich Alderson
Hi, Toby, I answered your private note, but Outlook/Exchange informed me this morning that it would not send the message for 48 hours and so was giving up. I just don't want you to think I'm ignoring you. My answer was that it's not for me to say, but the author is a friend.

Re: Algorithmic pricing gone critical - Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-02 Thread Warner Losh
Off-Topic Posts > > > > Subject: Re: Algorithmic pricing gone critical - Re: PDP-10 programming > [was > > RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development > > machine)] > > > > On Mar 1, 2016 8:19 PM, "Toby Thain" wrote: > >

RE: Algorithmic pricing gone critical - Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-02 Thread Robert Jarratt
mming [was > RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development > machine)] > > On Mar 1, 2016 8:19 PM, "Toby Thain" wrote: > > > > On 2016-03-01 7:36 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > >> > >> It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson

RE: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-02 Thread Rich Alderson
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alan Perry Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 7:22 PM > I was one of the first outside people to get an account on LCM's Toad, but > one day I found my account was gone, so I have been doing -20 work on SIMH > since then. ***

Re: Algorithmic pricing gone critical - Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread william degnan
On Mar 1, 2016 8:19 PM, "Toby Thain" wrote: > > On 2016-03-01 7:36 PM, Sean Conner wrote: >> >> It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson once stated: >>> >>> >>> For most hobbyists, even $100 is too much. I was simply astounded at the >>> chutzpah of the seller--right there on the Amazon lis

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Alan Perry
I loaned Rich my big bag of DECsystem-20 docs, including the Gorin book, from my days as a systems programmer on a couple of -20s in college. Guess I should have taken a deposit or some ID ;) I had some time to kill in SoDo and went to LCM for the first since it opened to the public. I tried to

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Ian S. King
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > On 2016-Mar-01, at 4:36 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > > It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson once stated: > >> > >> For most hobbyists, even $100 is too much. I was simply astounded at > the > >> chutzpah of the seller--right there on th

Algorithmic pricing gone critical - Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-03-01 7:36 PM, Sean Conner wrote: It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson once stated: For most hobbyists, even $100 is too much. I was simply astounded at the chutzpah of the seller--right there on the Amazon list--who was asking nearly $1500 for a copy. I think that comes

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2016-Mar-01, at 4:36 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson once stated: >> >> For most hobbyists, even $100 is too much. I was simply astounded at the >> chutzpah of the seller--right there on the Amazon list--who was asking >> nearly $1500 for a copy. > > I

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Rich Alderson once stated: > > For most hobbyists, even $100 is too much. I was simply astounded at the > chutzpah of the seller--right there on the Amazon list--who was asking > nearly $1500 for a copy. I think that comes from an unchecked computer algorithm, n

RE: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Rich Alderson
From: Glen Slick Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:43 PM > On Feb 29, 2016 5:07 PM, "Rich Alderson" > wrote: >> From: David Griffith >> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM >>> One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can >>> port Frotz to it. >> The canonical te

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-03-01 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:02:47AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > > On 2/29/2016 8:07 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: > >From: David Griffith > >Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM > > > >>One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can > >>port Frotz to it. > > > >The can

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-02-29 Thread Mark Wickens
There is a copy on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/introductiontode00step Regards, Mark. On 01/03/16 01:07, Rich Alderson wrote: From: David Griffith Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can port Frotz to it. T

Re: PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-02-29 Thread Glen Slick
On Feb 29, 2016 5:07 PM, "Rich Alderson" wrote: > > From: David Griffith > Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM > > > One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can > > port Frotz to it. > > The canonical textbook is Ralph Gorin's _Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20 > Assemb

PDP-10 programming [was RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)]

2016-02-29 Thread Rich Alderson
From: David Griffith Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:05 PM > One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can > port Frotz to it. The canonical textbook is Ralph Gorin's _Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20 Assembly Language Programming_ (Digital Press, 1981). Lots of examples