From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:59:36 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, PDP-8! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I briefly, at the age of 7 had a dual-processor cardboard pdp-8. IFIP68 was held in edinburgh, and my dad was on the organizing committee. So I got to go to the trade show alongside, and Dec had cardboard 8's they handed out as a promotional freebie to anyone who signed up. I got two. But I'd had the wooden crate a PDP-1 came in for a backyard tank before that so I was kinda- downsizing. -G On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Let's see how much this thread can drift... > > The venerable PDP-8 was introduced in 1965 today (or tomorrow if you're on > the wrong side of the date line). It was the first computer I ever used, > back around 1970 (I think I'd just left school and was checking out the > local University's computer department, and played with BASIC and FOCAL). > > And (hopefully) coincidentally the Pentium first shipped in 1993; the > infamous FDIV defect was discovered a year later (and it turned out that > Intel was made aware of it by a post-grad student a bit earlier), and what > followed next was an utter farce, with some dealers refusing to accept the > results of a widely-distributed program as evidence of a faulty FPU. > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will > suffer."