Come on Warren...I've heard that story 50 times already :-)
Happy New Year
Willie
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1 - PDP stood for personal data processor. The PDP-1 was advertised w/a
teddy bear which I believe was delivered with it. So it depends how big
your desk was.
2 - In the 1960s @ Oak Ridge it was common to order equipment, including
computers, by adding parts of the product specs into the bid
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:31:27 -0500, Kirk Talman wrote:
$)C1 - PDP stood for personal data processor. The PDP-1 was advertised w/a
teddy bear which I believe was delivered with it. So it depends how big
your desk was.
Programmed Data Processor, I heard at MIT circa 1962.
2 - In the 1960s @ Oak
Kurt Talman wrote
| 1 - PDP stood for personal data processor.
John McCarthy insisted that it was an acronym for Programmed Data
Processor and objected to it as all but vacuous, too generic because
it described any computer.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
In
ofca19006c.9b43266e-on85257c54.006478fb-85257c54.0065c...@tsys.com,
on 01/02/2014
at 01:31 PM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com said:
PDP stood for personal data processor.
Programmable.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
Actually, there was a desktop computer called GENIAC which came out in 1955.
Quite crude but it worked fine. I got an unmolested one off ebay about a year
ago. I first saw one when I was an IBM CE in the sixties.
Heathkit had an analog computer in 1956. Again I got one off ebay two years
In article p06240802cee6934cf57b@[192.168.1.11],
Robert A. Rosenberg IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote:
[Arthur C Clarke] also invented/predicted the synchronous satellite
being used for communications. I saw a picture of him at a Science Fiction
Convention wearing a T-Shirt which read I
In 1388417488.11875.16.camel@localhost, on 12/30/2013
at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com said:
Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is
that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user.
Anybody remember/use that?
Remember.
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Shmuel
In m3zjnjsodg@garlic.com, on 12/29/2013
at 09:50 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said:
note that (at least low-end and mid-range) 360s 370s were emulation
on some native microprocessor ... so 5100 wasn't all that different.
The data paths on the 2030, 2040, 2050, 2065 and 2085
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 09:50 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
total kernel time ... moved to microcode gained approx. 72% of kernel
time.
Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that
Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody
remember/use that?
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 14:30 -0600, Andy Wood wrote:
HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a marketing ploy
Heh. Bob Brigham once told me that the Bell System made electronic
switching systems (ESS) because they were prohibited from marketing
computers.
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David Andrews
A. Duda
David,
I remember the magnuson, it was PCM for IBM s/370s, I *think*..
Scott ford
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'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
On Dec 30, 2013, at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote:
On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 09:50 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler
In 1974, when that video was taped, a desk would fit on a computer. :-)
Bill Fairchild
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From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org
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Subject: Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) -
On 30 December 2013 10:31, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote:
Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that
Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody
remember/use that?
Much earlier the 370/165 and /168 had a Load MicroProgram
That could make for some VERY interesting results from a bad branch...maybe
that's why modern PCs sometimes wedge to the point of needing a power
cycle: they've reimplemented this technology! :-D
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote:
On 30 December 2013 10:31,
On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 14:55 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
Much earlier the 370/165 and /168 had a Load MicroProgram instruction
that loaded microcode from main storage. X'B9', iirc. Used by OLTEP
tests, I think.
I have a hazy memory of the /145 having a similar instruction (possibly
a variant of
Ed Gould wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA
My, oh my! Thanks Ed. That bold claim came true at all! ;-)
Nice vid, I must admit!
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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It shows how hard it is to predict the distant future. Predictions either come
sooner than predicted, or not at all. The Altair 8800 was only one year away;
the TRS-80 only three years distant.
Charles
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He also predicted home networking. That was quite a while later.
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:26:12 -0500 Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
:It shows how hard it is to predict the distant future. Predictions either
come sooner than predicted, or not at all. The Altair 8800 was only one year
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA
IBM 5100 1973 at Palo Alto Science Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100
enuf of 1130 emulation to run apl\1130 (SCAMP)
product out in 1978 was enuf of 360 emulation (on PALM) to run apl\360
note
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:50:03 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote:
IBM 5100 1973 at Palo Alto Science Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100
Besides the IBM 5100, there were other desktop machines that could be called
computers.
Two that I personally encountered were the
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:30:52 -0600, Andy Wood wrote:
Some may say that the HP 9100 was only a calculator, but Bill Hewlett himself
supposedly said that HP called it a calculator rather than a computer as a
marketing ploy (knowing that potential customers could more easily justify the
purchase
At 15:28 -0600 on 12/29/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: ñ One
day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - You:
In context of that video, the HP 9100 is particularly significant
- Athur C. Clarke had been presented with one by HP in 1970.
Is that Clarke? I'm not entirely familiar
AMAZING
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Subject: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTdWQAKzESA
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