[vcf-midatlantic] Museum 3B1 & PDP-8

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Nov 1 12:34:55 EDT 2019


On 11/1/19 12:18 PM, Kenneth Gober via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>   Also, emacs can be built on the 3B1, though it takes awhile.  It runs
>> well on that platform but you'll want additional memory; do you have a
>> 1.5MB RAM expansion board installed in that system?  I think the version
>> I built on the 3B1 (when it was new) was 18.59, the source code for
>> which is still available.
> 
> If you have gnu emacs, you have something interesting to look at that's good
> for demos: ^U 10 Esc x hanoi Enter
> 
> 10 might be too low, so if it finishes too quickly give it a bigger number
> like 15 or 20.

  There are many other good ones in GNU emacs too, like M-x doctor.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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