Well, I'm using a VAX to teach my daughter C programming. She likes
having the "weird" computer all to herself. (I'll have to get after her
about playing rogue though :-) I taught her binary/assembly on the
PDP-8. So far the ideal cirriculum seems to be:
Cardiac - basic computer concepts
PDP-8 - Cardiac in hardware :-)
VAX - High level languages
I'll probably use the PDP-11/23 to teach her about operating systems
because it has such an easy to use MMU that one can grasp it fairly
quickly.
--Chuck
George Rachor wrote:
>
> The space heater concept isn't lost on me here. The machines would go in
> a fairly large garage. Winters would be fine. It is the summer that I
> would worry about.
>
> George
>
> =========================================================
> George L. Rachor Jr. george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
> Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
> United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Lawrence LeMay wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Other ideas?
> >
> > Since the old computers will waste tons of electricity, while producing
> > relatively no cpu power in comparison to a modern CPU chip, you should
> > use your connected group as a space heater.
> >
> > >
> > > Does this even make sense?
> >
> > Yes. The only 100% efficient electrical appliance, is a heater. Since
> > by definition, it is supposed to convert electricity into waste, ie,
> > heat or other forms that eventually will become heat ;)
> >
> > -Lawrence LeMay
> >
Received on Wed May 10 2000 - 19:12:39 BST