From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, PDP-8!
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:52:13 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1803220840570.36168@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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."
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2018-03-21 21:52 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-03-21 21:59 ` George Michaelson
[not found] <mailman.659.1490686648.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-03-28 22:10 ` Johnny Billquist
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2017-03-28 2:38 Noel Chiappa
[not found] <mailman.1.1490580001.4973.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-03-27 23:30 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-03-27 23:33 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-27 23:49 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-03-27 1:24 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-27 14:07 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-27 0:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-27 0:37 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-27 12:05 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-03-27 13:35 ` Tony Finch
2017-03-27 21:37 ` Terry Smith
2017-03-21 23:57 Atindra Chaturvedi
2017-03-21 21:34 Dave Horsfall
2017-03-22 16:34 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-26 19:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-26 20:11 ` Paul Winalski
2017-03-26 22:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-03-26 22:25 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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