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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 145557" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Hey, yeah, I can remember when getting those pics from weather sats was the thing to do, lots of construction projects, etc. But, I certainly don't remember a PDP11 being required!</p><p></p><p>(then there were all those Morse TTY decoding projects ....).</p><p></p><p>Those were the days, (deep sighs) ......</p><p></p><p>PS, yeah, Alistair Sim. Green For Danger and Cottage to Let were on More4 the other week, but I forgot to mention it. Never mind.</p><p></p><p>(added) ooops sorry, when I said "pdp11", actually meant "pdp8", which had switch "triples" on front panel for entering Octal numbers.</p><p></p><p>PDP11 very different computer, Octal not much use with those ....</p><p></p><p>Here's a pdp8 pic, you can just about see that the switches are bunched into 3s .....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://pix.paip.net/Conferences/Hackers/pdp8.jpg" target="_blank">http://pix.paip.net/Conferences/Hackers/pdp8.jpg</a> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 145557, member: 192438"] Hey, yeah, I can remember when getting those pics from weather sats was the thing to do, lots of construction projects, etc. But, I certainly don't remember a PDP11 being required! (then there were all those Morse TTY decoding projects ....). Those were the days, (deep sighs) ...... PS, yeah, Alistair Sim. Green For Danger and Cottage to Let were on More4 the other week, but I forgot to mention it. Never mind. (added) ooops sorry, when I said "pdp11", actually meant "pdp8", which had switch "triples" on front panel for entering Octal numbers. PDP11 very different computer, Octal not much use with those .... Here's a pdp8 pic, you can just about see that the switches are bunched into 3s ..... [URL="http://pix.paip.net/Conferences/Hackers/pdp8.jpg"]http://pix.paip.net/Conferences/Hackers/pdp8.jpg[/URL] . [/QUOTE]
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