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I basically cut my teeth on DEC minicomputers from 1978 through 1996 on PDPs and the VAX. I have the PDP-11/70 emulated on a raspberry pi with an original DecW
by ChicagoDave 6y ago
I basically cut my teeth on DEC minicomputers from 1978 through 1996 on PDPs and the VAX.
I have the PDP-11/70 emulated on a raspberry pi with an original DecWriter III paper terminal connected.
It’s so much fun relearning TECO, a line editor that works off of ESC sequences.
Still looking for a cheap MicroVAX or a PDP-11/93.
- CalChris 6y agoYeah, TECO made learning VI trivial.
- WalterBright 6y agoI have idle thoughts about porting TECO to D so I can lord it over those IDE people.
- Blammar 6y agoI remember leaving off the initial "I" for insert-mode a few times when writing long TECO edits. Hitting the double escape and realizing in horror that the editor was parsing my assembly language program as editor commands wasn't fun. That got fixed eventually iirc by keeping your text input in a buffer. By the way, TECO was a CHARACTER editor, not a line editor!
- jmorrison 6y agoI dimly recall one was supposed to figure out what TECO would do when one typed one's name in (followed by the double-escape). Never did figure out what mine would do - was too afraid to try.
- Crashprofessor 6y ago>> Still looking for a cheap MicroVAX or a PDP-11/93. LSI 11/73? Hopefully, the SoL has arrived, I bought my 1st uVAX II motherboard, KA630 from a Field Service Engineer I Played Lax with for $500. Pulled out the 1/2 width PDP board, made a few console changes and voilla, VMS magic. In between was the interminable tape drive but it messes up the story. I left for Maynard/Nassau a few months later, the 6 best/worst years of my life. Watching us piss away the WS market to salvage big iron was the worst but as GB much later pointed up -- VMS was the gold and we had no idea how to mine it.