Ugly Me wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Post" <davep...@earthlink.net>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.
Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations
and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang
programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the
ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2! We were agog.) cards on which you'd
record programs by punching holes in them with a stylus?
Um -- frightening. I don't know what my mom and her sister used. PDP-8?
Might have been a PDP-10. I'd ask if we were still on speaking terms. She
never told me. Her ex husband did when I made enquiries as to who my real
father is.
But that's way OT. I may have downloaded a user manual for one of those.
Not QUITE as intimidating as the user manual.... I forget. Some monster
neanderthal from the 1950s. Excuse the brain fart. I should know what it is
called.
Before my time. Sorry. I was only (???) born in the sixties.
Could have been either PDP-8 or PDP-10. Basic difference was that the
PDP-10 was 36 bit time share machine whereas the PDP-8 was a single user
mini-computer. The operating system for the PDP-10 was a superset of
OS-8, the PDP-8 operating system.
Been a lot of years since I played with either.
Keith
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