I just got in!

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: John S. Yates, Jr. [mailto:john at yates-sheets.org]
> 
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:49:51 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant 
> Edwards) wrote:
> 
> >                                 and people start to roll
> >their eyes when you tell stories about PDP-11s and paper
> >tape...
> 
> Grant,
> 
> My PDP-8 experience followed a first addictive exposure
> to computers via PDP-11 assembly language.  I always
> love it when the PDP-11 gets mentioned.  So many fond
> memories...

Are you kidding? The Nova II was a *much* better machine than the PDP-11.
(The Nova line was also a descendent of the PDP-8, but went off in a
different direction).

No - I'm *not* old enough to have used one ... I wrote a software simulator
for a Nova II for my final uni software project. It was a lovely machine
though - flat memory space, etc. I had a front panel with switches, tape
loader, teletype ... all implemented in software. You needed to enter your
boot loader through the front panel switches before you could do anything
with it ... :)

Tim Delaney