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- Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!batcomputer!reed!bob
- From: bob@reed.edu (Robert Ankeney)
- Subject: The good old days.
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:54:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.235407.12864@reed.edu>
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- Gosh, this group reminds me of the good old days. I used to work
- at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), the folks who
- brought you OMSI-FOCAL and other oddities. The machine they had there
- was a Straight/8 with a serial number of (if I recall correctly) 138,
- which replaced the original one they had that had a 2-digit number.
- One thing I was just remembering was a wonderful puzzle from way
- back when. It was a challenge to write a program that zeroed memory.
- It had to be written in the first 4K and would zero the entire 4K,
- including itself. So, if you're feeling bored, you might see if you
- can do it! Sadly, I don't remember any solution, but if I recall,
- the auto-increment registers at 10-17 might have been useful.
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- Robert Ankeney
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