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Willard Goosey<p>Finally found lunarlander.foc again!</p><p>Running Lunar Lander on the PDP-8 Using Paper Tape FOCAL - Computer History Wiki</p><p><a href="https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_Lunar_Lander_on_the_PDP-8_Using_Paper_Tape_FOCAL" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gunkies.org/wiki/Running_Lunar</span><span class="invisible">_Lander_on_the_PDP-8_Using_Paper_Tape_FOCAL</span></a></p><p>(Edit this is actually a different version!)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/focal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>focal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LunarLander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LunarLander</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a></p>
Stewart Russell<p>Perfect colours...</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 02.05. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
iotar<p>Okay, the Minitel 1 is connecting to the PiDP8-i as a terminal. That wasn't something I was expecting to figure out before lunchtime.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pidp8i" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pidp8i</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minitel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minitel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Stefan Wolfrum :mastodon:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kenshirriff</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@rzbrk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rzbrk</span></a></span> Ohhh, thanks so much for answering, Master Ken! Made my day! 🤩🙏 So, the PDP-8/e is still there in the exhibition? Cool! Wouldn‘t that be a nice project with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CuriousMarc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CuriousMarc</span></a>, making it run again? 😉 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pdp8e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8e</span></a></p>
Stefan Wolfrum :mastodon:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@rzbrk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rzbrk</span></a></span> Look what I found in my photo library – photos of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a>/e and a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pdp11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp11</span></a>/20 I took in 2013 at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistoryMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistoryMuseum</span></a> in Palo Alto! 😍<br>I wonder if <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kenshirriff</span></a></span> could tell us more about these, if they’re still there today and if they actually work?!</p>
Jan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@metawops" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>metawops</span></a></span> <br>The <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> was discontinued in 1979. We are both "late to the party"! 😂 </p><p>I am currently very busy with RL things. But it would be awesome to exchange and to explore this beautiful machine together!</p><p>And I also plan to visit the Computer Museum in Stuttgart and to see a "real" PDP-8 at least once in my life:<br><a href="https://www.f05.uni-stuttgart.de/informatik/fachbereich/computermuseum/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">f05.uni-stuttgart.de/informati</span><span class="invisible">k/fachbereich/computermuseum/</span></a></p>
Stefan Wolfrum :mastodon:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@rzbrk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rzbrk</span></a></span> Yeah! 🤩 I‘d say „welcome to the club“ but I was late to the party and built my own <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PiDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PiDP8</span></a> kit just a few weeks ago. Love programming it via the front switches in octal machine code! 🤓 <br>The 3D printed stand (designed by Dan Novak) can be downloaded from my account at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MakerWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakerWorld</span></a> here 👉 <a href="https://makerworld.com/en/models/561418#profileId-480815" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makerworld.com/en/models/56141</span><span class="invisible">8#profileId-480815</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3dprinting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a></p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 03.05. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 06.10. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
bitsavers.org<p>DEC PDP-8 Space War listing ca. 1971<br><a href="http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/decus/pdp8/8-395_Space_War_Listing_197101.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/decus/pd</span><span class="invisible">p8/8-395_Space_War_Listing_197101.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/bitsavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bitsavers</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a></p>
Minty<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalEquipmentCorporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalEquipmentCorporation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceWar</span></a> </p><p>Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/I running Space War by David Gesswein at VCF East XVII</p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 02.06. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
µP<p>The nearly finished <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiniComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiniComputer</span></a> room in the Oldenburger Computermuseum with running <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> machines.</p>
Stewart Russell<p>Why yes I did recreate period-correct FORTRAN code for plotting the Mandelbrot set before it was known as the Mandelbrot set ... even got it running on a PDP-8</p><p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4674800/578897" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">math.stackexchange.com/a/46748</span><span class="invisible">00/578897</span></a></p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/mandelbrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mandelbrot</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/FORTRAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FORTRAN</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a></p>
Randy "DUO" Mongenel<p>Picked up a little restoration project from a local: A PDP-8A/420, complete with 20-slot OMNIBUS backplane, PSU, CPU, serial, and 16KB of core memory. The story is that it had been used with a CNC machine at some point, and it is quite filthy. <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a></p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 03.02. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
Space Hobo Actual<p>OK, so where did all of this <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/LINC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LINC</span></a> and <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> stuff from this whoooole thread end up? Well, Dick Clayton from <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a> explains in this short interjection at the DigiBarn event:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/xT_5PcrVI9Q?t=5810" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/xT_5PcrVI9Q?t=5810</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Basically Digital made a weird hybrid LINC/pdp8 system called the LINC-8, but it wasn't that great. So while he was on jury duty, he sketched out the Right Way to do it so that the system could switch between "8 mode" and "LINC mode" *in software*. The result was the <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pdp12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp12</span></a>, which sold more units than all the previous LINC systems combined.</p><p>And that takes us to tonight's thread from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://teh.entar.net/@tastytronic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tastytronic</span></a></span>, where the <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/umdpdp12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>umdpdp12</span></a> has just had its first successful verification tests of some of its 60-year-old flipchip cards: <a href="https://teh.entar.net/@tastytronic/109644812161500698" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">teh.entar.net/@tastytronic/109</span><span class="invisible">644812161500698</span></a></p>
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Christopher Masto<p>PiDP-8 tour and demo</p><p><a href="https://diode.zone/videos/watch/e847d73b-d03f-4a24-b320-6f55c7150807" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diode.zone/videos/watch/e847d7</span><span class="invisible">3b-d03f-4a24-b320-6f55c7150807</span></a></p>