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And yet here we are. It appears that all roads lead to hacker news. > "Four Yorkshiremen" Zero computers? Ok, you win. This is a later version of our compute
by musesum 9y ago
And yet here we are. It appears that all roads lead to hacker news.
> "Four Yorkshiremen"
Zero computers? Ok, you win.
This is a later version of our computer https://youtu.be/NtAF-WfWyGU https://youtu.be/NtAF-WfWyGU
To load the OS, you first had to hand key in a bootstrap loader in octal (base 8) on the front panel. The loader would then read the OS from paper tape into magnetic core.
Our computer was a PDP-8/i. Someone mentioned that the PDP-8/i was about as powerful as a Raspberry Pi. So, imagine a half dozen schools timesharing a Raspberry Pi.
Currently, I'm writing for the Apple Watch, which is more powerful than a Cray-2 -- a supercomputer that cost $16 Million in 1984.
- defined 9y ago> This is a later version of our computer... Nice YouTube video, thanks. > To load the OS, you first had to hand key in a bootstrap loader in octal (base 8) on the front panel. When I eventually got to university in 1978, we had a PDP-11 of some sort, and I recall entering the boot program by setting the address and data toggle switches and booting from paper tape. I have no idea if it was core memory. Those were the days :)