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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks Richard.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Four Yorkshiremen ? -- anytime.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/03/2020 9:30 PM, Richard Jones
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Mark,
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<div>A huge thank you for posting about the PDP8 restoration,
what an interesting read.</div>
<div>I had the privilege to use a PDP8 in the early 1970's.</div>
<div>To start the machine we loaded 17 words of 12 bits each
coded in octal on the front panel switches to install the
RIM loader by hand which would in turn install the binary
loader from paper tape. Then load in the Focal 8 programming
language (again on paper tape) to start writing programs in
Focal8 using the teletype. Our machine was located in the
Brunel University engineering tower where the starting surge
from the lift would often scramble the core memory and the
whole process had to be repeated...</div>
<div>When 100k byte floppy disks came along years later we
could not believe our good fortune.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at
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<p>oops.</p>
<p><a href="https://pdp-8.nz/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://pdp-8.nz</a></p>
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