I mis-remembered about the PDP assembly course.  It was actually PDP11=20
emulator running on a VAX.   That was in the 80's.
And I had almost the same FORTRAN experience, but the turn around time=20
was about 3 days in 76.
Joe W

On 3/2/2015 8:11 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
> Joe,
>       That's ok! This isn't quite 50 years ago. When I was in high school
> in 1973 we were time sharing across a 300 baud modem that was connected
> to an IBM 370/70 if I remember the numbers correctly. Our programs were
> stored on paper tape. I learned how to read the characters on the tape.
> We were learning how to program in BASIC. Some of the students
> discovered the Star Trek program and used up all of our processor time
> in one night. They were expelled and the school had to buy some more
> processor time so that the rest of us could finish our programs. The
> computer room was locked from then on unless there was an instructor
> there. Another example of the majority losing some privileges because of
> what a few did. I don't even remember what program I was writing. I just
> remember that we were studying BASIC.
>       We were also learning FORTRAN. That was a lot of fun. We wrote out
> our program and then transferred the program on to cards. I believe that
> each card held 80 characters or one line. We then mailed the cards off
> to UNR were they would try to compile it. We would then get our cards
> back with a print out telling us where our errors were. We would fix the
> errors and send the cards back to UNR. The turn around time was about
> three weeks. None of us ever finished a program. Ten years later the
> VIC-20 came out and wow I was in heaven.
> Thanks,
> rich!
>
> On 3/2/2015 7:03 AM, Joe Wronski wrote:
>> Ooops, looking at the picture, I remember that it was *octal* numbers we
>> 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
>>> system when I started there in 1976.  I didn't know a thing about
>>> programming then, but there was a series of maybe 20-25 hex numbers
>>> that needed to be entered in binary on the front panel to get the
>>> paper tape reader loaded. Later on, I took a PDP8 assembly language
>>> course and I used a cpm machine connected by 300 baud modem to the
>>> 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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