[mythtv-users] The Smaller... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 04:22:03 UTC 2007


On 10/19/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:59:09PM -0700, Rich Wilson wrote:
> >> Yes, 11 megabytes _IS_ massive!
> >> http://www.pdp8.net/dfds32/dfds32.shtml
> >> I calculate 181 kBits/Sec from the info.
> >
> > Cut my teeth on a PDP-8/E; Cugir Edusystem 50 timesharing, BASIC and
> > FOCAL; ASR/33s.
>
> Ah yes, Focal (FOrmula CALculation). Written by Rick Merril of DEC.
> Basically (no pun intended) a clone of Basic, with overtones of Algol.
>
> Took up a little over 3K of the 4K the 8/L had available, leaving about
> 900 octal locations for your program.
>
> It was written in the PAL-III assembly language IIRC.
>
> Still hate the ASR-33s. We managed to get hold of some 35s, which held
> up better.

I cut my teeth (and fingers) on a Digi-Comp, back in the day.  3 bits.

-Jerry


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