From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:01:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC5iaNFwjb9m7g-Uj2D9Vb4514ku9QBuEX7--kyjU0JOkzHBaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21ae9091-baed-493a-b84f-ec96efc66955.maildroid@localhost>
Hello!
Interesting.
I know I've seen the Star system rig before. But the Xerox Alto one is
new to me. Wasn't the PDP-7 the fellow where UNIX really got its start
on before they moved it to a PDP-11?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, <iking at killthewabbit.org> wrote:
> Small correction: not a Star, an Alto. :-)
>
> Sent from my android device.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org>
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Sent: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:19 AM
> Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
>
> Jay Forrester, who invented core memory, first described it in
> a lab notebook 65 years ago today.
>
> (Thanks to the Living Computer Museum, through whose Twitter
> feed I learned this tidbit. It's a place--the real museum,
> not just the Twitter feed--many on this list might enjoy:
> among their aged-but-working computers are a Xerox Star and
> a PDP-7.)
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-16 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-15 18:19 Norman Wilson
2014-06-16 16:13 ` iking
2014-06-16 22:01 ` Gregg Levine [this message]
2014-06-17 1:38 ` John Cowan
2014-06-17 1:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-06-17 3:13 ` iking
2014-06-17 12:14 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 16:21 ` Ian King
2014-06-18 11:06 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-18 14:43 ` iking
2014-06-18 14:48 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 18:21 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-18 15:03 Norman Wilson
2014-06-18 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 16:58 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 15:55 ` Larry McVoy
2014-06-18 15:14 ` Dan Cross
2014-06-18 16:50 ` scj
2014-06-18 18:43 ` John Cowan
2014-06-18 17:48 Douglas Comer
2014-06-18 22:38 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-06-18 21:21 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-18 22:55 ` John Cowan
2014-06-19 1:49 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-20 13:05 Douglas Comer
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