[GTALUG] Laptop recommendations?
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri May 1 14:45:16 EDT 2020
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:14:11PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Yeah. I only used PDP-8 computers before floppies had been invented.
>
> You didn't have to remember the RIM loader for the PDP-8/I, it was
> silk-screened onto the console.
>
> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/PDP-8_I_Bedienfeld_%28simuliert%29.png>
>
> You didn't often need to use it since its only purpose was to load the
> BIN loader, and that usually persisted (core memory FTW!).
I wonder if the developers had competitions on who could write the
shortest working loader program.
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Len Sorensen
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