{"id":2594,"date":"2012-05-19T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2012-05-19T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T22:20:39","slug":"artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run:\u00a0 7 miles]<\/p>\n

Every once in awhile I’ll be in an on-line group,\u00a0 usually an email list, and a computer nostalgia can-you-top-this war will break out.<\/p>\n

My problem is that I came to computers at the end of the punch card era, after toggle switches and bubble memory were already gone.\u00a0 There just wasn’t that much happening.<\/p>\n

Any email list I am likely to be in probably already has some baby-boomer retired guy who used to wire up memory cores or fix coffee for Grace Hopper.\u00a0 Either that or everyone has moved on to iSomethings and 4G phones and consider pre-internet computing as on a level with\u00a0 PICs and Arduinos.\u00a0 They may have a point.<\/p>\n

I found this artifact of my college education the other day.\u00a0 It is an instruction card for the PDP-11 family of computers.\u00a0 I came in toward the end of the PDP-11 days, but I had one class, a summer class, in PDP-11 assembly language programming.\u00a0 I still have the book too.<\/p>\n

If you really want to read this, I recommend that you do a google search for PDP-11 Programming Card <\/a>. More than one has been scanned, much prettier than this one.<\/p>\n

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