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To: Kid Shelleen

Well, since we are talking about the PDP series, besides the BASIC language (and OBASIC), I used to program in a language called FOCAL (FOrmula CALculator). No lower case. The OS on our PDP-8/M was ETOS, and we booted from the front panel. Core memory, DEC Tape. Paper Tape. 150 baud acoustic modems. Lear-Siegler ADM3A consoles. Good times.


125 posted on 05/23/2017 6:08:35 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Oh, and the PDP8M was a 12 bit central processor, and Octal was used in the assembly language (PAL) The text editor was TECO.


127 posted on 05/23/2017 6:11:55 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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