Re: [amsat-bb] IPS and Amateur Satellite Software

["Gunther Meisse" <gjmouse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Awwww, Paper tape. It went well with the new DEC printer that could print 35
get it 35 cps. We were in pig heaven....
See ya,
G. Meisse
W8GSM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604" <faunt@panix.com>
To: <gjmouse@neo.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IPS and Amateur Satellite Software


> We ran Focal on our PDP-8S, loaded by the paper tape reader on the
> ASR-33.
>
> Yeah, we do, but I've run across four references to 1401s or 7040's in
> the past two weeks.
>
> 73, doug
>
>    Reply-To: "Gunther Meisse" <gjmouse@neo.rr.com>
>    From: "Gunther Meisse" <gjmouse@neo.rr.com>
>    Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 08:44:19 -0400
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>    Hay, How about Dibol-8 on a DEC PDP-8m with 8k of ram. We went all out
and
>    added an additional 4k. The max size a program was 32k. Did a lot of
>    chaining in those days.
>    Well, we sound like a bunch of old men in the park on a summer day.
>    73
>    Gunther Meisse
>    W8GSM
>
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: "Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604" <faunt@panix.com>
>    To: <rdwelch@swbell.net>
>    Cc: <gregory.beat@home.com>; <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
>    Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 2:06 AM
>    Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] IPS and Amateur Satellite Software
>
>
>    >    Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 03:51:06 +0000
>    >    From: Roy Welch <rdwelch@swbell.net>
>    >
>    >    Anyone ever hear of Autocoder Assembly language on an IBM 1401?
No
>    CRT, no
>    >    keyboard, and only tape or punched card input!  A four foot square
box
>    with
>    >    8k core RAM expandable to 16k.  No multiply feature unless you
paid $4k
>    >    more.  Otherwise you wrote your own add and shift stuff to
multiply.
>    My
>    >    first experience was in 1963 with this thing.  We wrote 200k
programs
>    with
>    >    tape overlay routines and extended memory out onto tape.  Some
fun!
>    >
>    >    Gregory Beat wrote:
>    >    >
>    >    > No, I still slash my zeroes, (and not the "ohs" which is another
>    story)
>    >    > great for the ham radio calls, but gets strange stares from our
Java
>    >    > programmers   :-)
>    >    >
>    >
>    >
>    > Heh, I wrote SPS programs, with overlays that were read in through
the
>    > card reader, because I was using all four 7330 drives for data.
>    >
>    > I also wrote code on the 7040, and we could put a 1401 on channel A
>    > of the 7040 and use the 1403 to replace the console typewriter.
>    > It made WatFor jobs run a LOT faster.
>    >
>    > Usually we used the 1401 to make SYSIN tapes offline.
>    >
>    > 73, doug
>    >
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