From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregg.drwho8@gmail.com (Gregg Levine) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:01:38 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped In-Reply-To: <21ae9091-baed-493a-b84f-ec96efc66955.maildroid@localhost> References: <1402856379.23321.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <21ae9091-baed-493a-b84f-ec96efc66955.maildroid@localhost> Message-ID: 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? ----- 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, wrote: > Small correction: not a Star, an Alto. :-) > > Sent from my android device. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Norman Wilson > 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 > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >