Ooops, looking at the picture, I remember that it was *octal* numbers we=20
keyed in, not hex.

On 3/2/2015 7:58 AM, Joe Wronski wrote:
> Sprague Electric (now Allegro) used them as part of a Teradyne test=20
> system when I started there in 1976.  I didn't know a thing about=20
> programming then, but there was a series of maybe 20-25 hex numbers=20
> that needed to be entered in binary on the front panel to get the=20
> paper tape reader loaded. Later on, I took a PDP8 assembly language=20
> course and I used a cpm machine connected by 300 baud modem to the=20
> college's PDP11 which ran a PDP8 emulator.
>
> Joe W
>
> On 3/1/2015 9:54 PM, John Gardner wrote:
>> PC's for everyone !
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8
>>
>> Anyone with $20K, that is, in 1965 dollars...  :)
>>
>> A bit of perspective on the meaning of RISC, and perhaps also
>>
>> the meaning of money - Roughly $200 K in today's greenbacks...
>
>


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