From sentto-2719433-12-980655188-gtoal=vt.com@returns.onelist.com Sat Jan 27 21:40:12 2001 Received: from hn.egroups.com (hn.egroups.com [208.50.99.199]) by admin.vt.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07256 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:40:12 -0600 (CST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-2719433-12-980655188-gtoal=vt.com@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by hn.egroups.com with NNFMP; 28 Jan 2001 04:13:08 -0000 X-Sender: gtoal@admin.vt.com X-Apparently-To: edinburgh-computer-history@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 28 Jan 2001 04:13:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 34909 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2001 04:13:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Jan 2001 04:13:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admin.vt.com) (204.117.188.10) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Jan 2001 04:13:07 -0000 Received: (from gtoal@localhost) by admin.vt.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id VAA07231 for edinburgh-computer-history@egroups.com; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:39:59 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200101280339.VAA07231@admin.vt.com> To: edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com From: Graham Toal MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com; contact edinburgh-computer-history-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:39:59 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ed-comp-hist] DJR's info Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO DJR wrote: > I just remembered I do have something machine readable - I have paper > tapes of the assembler source for my PDP8 music compiler which must > date from around 1966. The PDP8 itself is in storage in the Chambers > St. museum I think. Somebody should get it going - maybe Jimmy > Johnstone before he retires this summer! I second the latter sentiment with a proviso - we know we can't keep these old machines going for ever (my own year and Ian's year kept the 9/15 running for two years after the support budget for it ran out but even it eventually had to go. The power cost alone was too high) - so it would be great to get a machine like up up and running again just long enough to write an emulator and make sure it was a perfect match for the real thing. Then it would live on forever... (however this is not in the scope of our project) Graham ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> eGroups is now Yahoo! Groups Click here for more details http://click.egroups.com/1/11231/1/_/_/_/980655188/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: edinburgh-computer-history-unsubscribe@egroups.com