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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Cerebus:
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Oh dear.
I think I'll have to get an 8800A, just so I can fondle those switches.
I really wish people wouldn't post geekporn pictures.
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I always think those look like a stunted pdp-8 or DG Nova 820 front panel.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 27, 2018, 12:12:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 27, 2018, 06:27:20 am ---Oh dear.
I think I'll have to get an 8800A, just so I can fondle those switches.
I really wish people wouldn't post geekporn pictures.
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I always think those look like a stunted pdp-8 or DG Nova 820 front panel.
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Precisely :) Although I would have said a PDP-11, since some PDP8s had rocker switches rather than piano keys.
Brumby:
I thought PDP-8 as well.
It was the first computer to which I ever had hands on access.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Brumby on June 27, 2018, 12:54:04 pm ---I thought PDP-8 as well.
It was the first computer to which I ever had hands on access.
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Mine was one of these, with a 39-bit word (2 instructions, each 6-bit opcode 13-bit address, plus a "modifier" bit).
You can see one operating at TNMoC, which also contains the world's oldest operating computer.
bd139:
Glad I started in the microprocessor era. Hand me down ZX80 and what a pile of excrement that was. Managed to brow beat my parents into buying me a BBC in the end. Had to wait until a relative died before I could afford a disk drive for it.
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