From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 3 08:44:27 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45C8C61950; Sat, 3 Dec 2016 08:44:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7684FB5F; Sat, 3 Dec 2016 08:44:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-230-194.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.230.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id uB38iLI2075499 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: FOCAL To: Larry Rosenman , Kevin Oberman References: <20161203015938.GE44284@eureka.lemis.com> <1fca9c334b64e9c1e9a7c64edb8723eb@lerctr.org> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Dave Horsfall , FreeBSD Ports From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <19663ef3-c389-be3d-0912-1bc046a90924@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 16:44:15 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1fca9c334b64e9c1e9a7c64edb8723eb@lerctr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 08:44:27 -0000 Some friends and I have a pdp8 here.. we replaed the bulbs with leds about 25 years ago, but last time we tried it, it still ran.. model number escapes me.. its currently at a friend's place. It was the controller for a DISTEC (?) display, the predecessor for the wonderful gt40 and used as a frontend for teh pdp10 (KA10, serial # 6) On 3/12/2016 12:07 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On 2016-12-02 22:02, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey >> wrote: >> >>> On Saturday, 3 December 2016 at 11:40:36 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: >>> > Be there an implementation of FOCAL? I have a hankering to get >>> back to >>> my >>> > early programming days :-) >>> >>> Heh. I have a paper tape from my first year at uni somewhere in the >>> mess on my desk. It's been there for at least 10 years, and it's >>> short enough for it to be practical to read it in by eye, but I >>> haven't got more than a third of the way through. It's in FOCAL-69, >>> and does some world-shattering calculations like mean and standard >>> deviation. It would be fun to run it again--once. >>> >>> Greg >>> >> >> Wow! Have not thought of FOCAL in years. Used to write a bit both >> when in >> college and, using FOCAL-11, in my early years at LLNL. Unlike >> FOCAL on a >> PDP-8, FOCAL-11 ran on top of DOS-11. (No relation to Microsoft >> DOS.) The >> PDP-8L was the only solid state computer in the lab. All of the others >> still had vacuum tubes and drum memory, though the Univac Athena >> had both >> drum and core. >> >> In college I wrote a simple craps game and, it it caught you trying to >> cheat, it zeroed your account and gave you the finger on the >> ASR-33. My >> computer logic prof (and department head) saw that trivial ASCII >> art and >> chewed me a new one for putting code to generate that gesture on a >> school >> computer. That was about 45 years ago. Memories! > > Brings back memories for me as well from high school. Back in 1972. > > PDP-8/L in the Levittown (NY) School District.