<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jerry Rubinow</b> <<a href="mailto:jerrymr@gmail.com">jerrymr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/19/07, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:<br>> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:59:09PM -0700, Rich Wilson wrote:<br>> >> Yes, 11 megabytes _IS_ massive!
<br>> >> <a href="http://www.pdp8.net/dfds32/dfds32.shtml">http://www.pdp8.net/dfds32/dfds32.shtml</a><br>> >> I calculate 181 kBits/Sec from the info.<br>> ><br>> > Cut my teeth on a PDP-8/E; Cugir Edusystem 50 timesharing, BASIC and
<br>> > FOCAL; ASR/33s.<br>><br>> Ah yes, Focal (FOrmula CALculation). Written by Rick Merril of DEC.<br>> Basically (no pun intended) a clone of Basic, with overtones of Algol.<br>><br>> Took up a little over 3K of the 4K the 8/L had available, leaving about
<br>> 900 octal locations for your program.<br>><br>> It was written in the PAL-III assembly language IIRC.<br>><br>> Still hate the ASR-33s. We managed to get hold of some 35s, which held<br>> up better.
<br><br>I cut my teeth (and fingers) on a Digi-Comp, back in the day. 3 bits.<br><br>-Jerry<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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<br><br>Gary<br></div><br></div><br>