The retro computer hobbyist group MARCH hosted the Vintage Computer Festival East 2015. In the 60's and 70's a New Jersey high school computer club called the RESISTORS used several computers. One of them was the original model of DEC PDP-8. They used it from 1969 to early 70's. That computer was donated to the MARCH museum in 2008. It needed significant restoration which is discussed here.
I didn't have much time to prepare demos so used a block letter paper
tape punch program and luner lander game running in the
FOCAL language.
It takes the computer 13 minutes to load FOCAL and another 3 minutes to
load the game. When loading from a Teletype you have to have patience. The
reader on the Teletype wasn't 100% reliable so I actually loaded from a
modern computer.
The following picture links also have descriptions of what is shown in the pictures.
YouTube video of PDP-8 ceremony
Information on
Claude Kagan who mentored the group for much of its existence.
Other sites with pictures of the event.
Paper tape text punch program
Computer in use by RESISTORS ( 50K)
Talk ( 64K)
Exhibit ( 67K)
Toggle in ( 69K)
Results ( 65K)
Punching ( 65K)
Kyle Owen Starts with more PDP-8 pictures
CommodoreZ on this machine
CommodoreZ VCF
Herb Johnson
Bill Degnan
Mike Loewen
dmemphis
ASR-33 Teletype information,
Feel free to contact me, David Gesswein djg@pdp8online.com
with any questions, comments on the web site, or if you have related equipment,
documentation, software etc. you are willing to part with. I am
interested in anything PDP-8
related, computers, peripherals used with them, DEC or third party, or
documentation.
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