Ham sandwich navigation and radar failure

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Roy Smith wrote:

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Hamish Reid wrote:

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Roy Smith wrote:

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Hamish Reid wrote:

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Roy Smith wrote:

Hamish Reid wrote:
vi, humph. It's ed. Kids these days... :-). Anyone else for teco?

Never did any TECO, but I did use SOS, a close cousin. Used to be
pretty good at the 029 card punch too :-)

SOS? Luxury! I used to enter things with the front panel switches on
the PDP-11

Been there, done that.

Give me a nice G5 Mac any day

Like the 12" PowerBook I'm typing this on? It's actually quite a modest
machine by today's standards: 1 GHz G4 processor, 512 meg ram, 40 gig
disk, wireless ethernet, read/write CD/DVD, blah, blah, blah, but just
try and carry an 11/45 onto the subway and see how far you get.

I actually still have the "boot PROM" from an old PDP-11 (not sure
which model) -- it's just a standard Unibus board with 16 diodes and a
bunch of resistors on it. You cut the diode leads for a zero, left 'em
alone (or soldered them back) for a one. It's larger than your
PowerBook...

I'll see your boot prom and raise you a three-board core module from a
pdp-8 that's hanging on my wall.

Somewhere in the closet I've got some CDC-6600 memory. Probably more
interesting from a history of technology point of view, but not as
pretty, so it lives in the closet instead of on the wall :-)

Well, I can't beat any of this, but I do have -- somewhere in the tons
of junk I seem to have here -- a CDC COMPASS programming guide bundled
up with a type-written manual for a Simula-67 compiler on the 6600.
Wish I could find some of the card images I used to feed it -- give it
a thousand line program and at some indeterminate time later it would
simply say "Syntax error" and that was that. No hints what the error(s)
was / were or where it / they were...

Hamish