#pdp 8

[dinosaurspen]

DEC PDPs & friends at the System Source Museum (Maryland Technology Museum)

Visited earlier this week. It was thrilling to see so many of my favorite computers in-person, and even see the LINC in operation!

Definitely recommend checking it out you're in the Baltimore area!

[commodorez]

PDP 8/L Restoration with FPGA-based Disk - Mike Rieker, Chris Randall

VCF East XX

[flowers-that-sing]

anyone interested in seeing me shoot a bb gun for the first time?

in case ur worried i do know about safety and i am well researched i’ve just never had my own and never had a chance to actually shoot one. i’m not like totally inexperienced/know absolutely nothing about guns.

[hardcoregamer]

PDP and Turtle Beach have launched six new Tekken 8 fight sticks that feature different characters from the hit Bandai Namco title. Costing $499.99, these sticks seem to be the top of the line with an integrated 6.28° wrist slope that reduces fatigue.

[sonsofks]

¡TEKKEN World Tour 2024 Regresa con TEKKEN 8 y Nuevas Alianzas con Grandes Marcas!

La emoción de la nueva era de TEKKEN llega con el torneo mundial 2024 y asociaciones innovadoras con Chipotle, Venum, Uniqlo y Victrix by PDP. En una apasionante competencia que tuvo lugar el 16 de enero de 2023 en Nueva Orleans, Louisiana, Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. coronó a un nuevo campeón en las finales del TEKKEN World Tour 2023. Arslan Ash emergió como el vencedor en una final…

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

PDP-8 MiniComputer family advertisement

[oldguydoesstuff]

The KFKI TPA-1001 , a Hungarian PDP-8 clone (circa 1968). Built entirely with transistors and other discrete components, as even SSI ICs were not available at the time in Hungary.

[vax-official]

You might have heard of 32-bit and 64-bit applications before, and if you work with older software, maybe 16-bit and even 8-bit computers. But what came before 8-bit? Was it preceded by 4-bit computing? Were there 2-bit computers? 1-bit? Half-bit?

Well outside that one AVGN meme, half-bit isn't really a thing, but the answer is a bit weirder in other ways! The current most prominent CPU designs come from Intel and AMD, and Intel did produce 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors (although 4-bit computers weren't really a thing). But what came before 4-bit microprocessors?

Mainframes and minicomputers did. These were large computers intended for organizations instead of personal use. Before microprocessors, they used transistorized integrated circuits (or in the early days even vacuum tubes) and required a much larger space to store the CPU.

And what bit length did these older computers have?

A large variety of bit lengths.

There were 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit mainframes/minicomputers, but you also had 36-bit computers (PDP-10), 12-bit (PDP-8), 18-bit (PDP-7), 24-bit (ICT 1900), 48-bit (Burroughs) and 60-bit (CDC 6000) computers among others. There were also computers that didn't use binary encoding to store numbers, such as decimal computers or the very rare ternary computers (Setun).

And you didn't always evolve by extending the bit length, you could upgrade from an 18-bit computer to a more powerful 16-bit computer, which is what the developers of early UNIX did when they switched over from the PDP-7 to the PDP-11, or offer 32-bit over 36-bit, which happened when IBM phased out the IBM 7090 in favor of the the System/360 or DEC phased out the PDP-10 in favor of the VAX.

[jhavard]

That time I had a dream about a PDP-8

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[dinosaurspen]

A PDP-8 computer used for calculating missile trajectory aboard the USS Oklahoma City.

[commodorez]

PDP-8 Computer Art – David Gesswein

And is that @regretsretrotech talking to David in one of those photos?

VCF East XIX

[krjpalmer]

People's Computer Company February 1973

This issue of People's Computer Company included a type-in program adapting one of Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" from Scientific American and an article about buying a PDP-8-based "EduSystem" from DEC (the $8370 EduSystem 20 was held much superior to the $6960 EduSystem 10), with a mail-away coupon to be sent to Dave Ahl.

[trickiwooao3]

WIP Title Game

Thanks for the tags, @beaiola and @tyfinn. RULES: Reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit! I use writing software. (It's lovely. You should try it!) My color-coded writing files are all like this:

Scene 1, Wed., Sept. 7, PDP, Assignment

Scene 2, Thurs., Sept. 8, PDD, Lunch

On through 23, which I’m working on now. Below that are my research and notes files, which are, uh, numerous and, I fear, diagnostic: scenes numbered, scene summaries, beta summary, tags and acknowledgements, add to notes, Ray’s jobs, word count, repeated words, dialogue snippets, college info, progression of affection, need to research, David background, Patrick background, theatre ideas, theatres, timelines, Wendy’s house,  Babes and A Star, Fox Theatre, 2005 calendar, writing reminders, Patrick, David black jacket, David hair, David apartment, Positions [yes, body positions, but not the ones you’d assume]. I also have dozens of Word files with titles like “Compiled March 7, 2023,” “Scene 20, May 27, 2023,” “Scenes 1 – 7 for [Beta 1],” “Scenes 1-7 for [Beta 2]," "Scenes numbered and dated."  Obviously I'm not going to tag as many people as I have documents. But surely someone out there will confess to having files as, uh, thorough, as mine. @rmd-writes, @mostlyinthemorning, @jamilas-pen, @demora00, @likerealpeopledo-on-ao3, @dinnfameron, @smallumbrella369

[nimhmistsong]

'OS/8 is the primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.'

I don't know any of these words. Whelp! What's the worst that can happen?

What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what

[digipubl6]

Deadline for A2: Fanzines project, Thursday 22nd May.

IMPORTANT: Submitting your work

For submission, you will need to create a folder which includes ALL of the following:

Supporting Document (1x PDF)

PDP Document (1x PDF)

Fanzine 1 (package)

Fanzine 2 (package)

Fanzine 3 (package)

Fanzine 4 (package)

Fanzine 5 (package)

Fanzine 6 (package)

Fanzine 7 (package)

Fanzine 8 (package)

Extension Fanzine 9 (package)

Extension Fanzine 10 (package)

That is a total of 10x separate files/folders (or 12x if you did the extension fanzines).

This folder must then be compressed into a ZIP file. 

You will then upload the ZIP file to Moodle for submission. 

The deadline for submission for this project is Thursday, 22nd May at 10pm. 

Any submissions not uploaded by this deadline will be deemed as late, and you will be marked down on Professional Practice.

How to create an Adobe InDesign Package

How to Compress Your Final Outcomes for Submission