AVR-Chat

Ah yes, the old PDP11! I had forgotten!
I had some experience with one in 1978 when I worked at Channel 7. It
was purchased as the engine of a supposedly sutomatic presentation
controller (switching the commercials in on time automatically and
recording the events on a paper roll) but we never did get it to work
as well as a human and it was abandoned!
TV broadcasting is all so relatively simple these days with digital
video and huge data storage. Just about every piece of equipment has a
microcontroller in it.
Ted Smith
 
--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Zack Widup <w9sz@p...> wrote:
>
> > ( Potential candidate for "grumpy old men" )
> 
> One of the first computers I used was a DEC PDP-11 which we had to 
> initiate by loading a bootloader with the toggles on the front, which 
> then read our programs punched on reels of paper tape. The program 
> gathered data at a field station and punched it on paper tape, which
was 
> taken back to a lab to be stored on magnetic tape by a G-20 computer
(ever 
> hear of those?)
> 
> Ah, the good old days ...
> 
> Zack
>