On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:16 -0000, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote: > mk wrote: >> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: >> >>> Makes me want to go down to the basement and fire up the Altair. :-) >> >> Please don't, or else I fire up that univ Yugoslavian copy of VAX with >> Pascal compiler (where I wrote my first program) and I will start my >> first program of ping-pong. >> >> It was a few hundred lines but took 5 minutes to compile; "VAX" was >> theoretically multitasking, but when more than 3 people were trying to >> do smth on it simultaneously, it was basically seizing up. >> >> Regards, >> mk >> > Puts me in mind of Mario Wolczko's early attempts to implement SmallTalk > on a VAX 11/750. The only bitmapped display we had available was a Three > Rivers PERQ, connected by a 9600bps serial line. We left it running at > seven o'clock one evening, and by nine am the next day it had brought up > about two thirds of the initial VM loader screen ... > > You tell these young kids, and they just don't believe you! There's old, and then there's old. http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/739532 is a film of EDSAC being programmed in 1951, with a commentary added by Maurice Wilkes in 1976. Maybe just a bit before my time (by a decade or so :-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses
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