Computer exhibit and school lkids - was Re: Corn Puffs box misinformation

From: Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Sat Oct 12 02:09:01 2002

Hans B Pufal wrote:
> For the PDP-8 we have the CPU box, no terminal. I loaded a 30
> instruction program to calculate the average of a sequnece of numbers
> entered on the keys. It takes about 15 minutes of so to teach a group
> of kids to enter binary numbers and read the result. The most common
> comment (before we start) is : "Where's the screen and keyboard?"
I can understand why :-)
OTOH, I do like the glow of a set of blinkenlights while I'm coding. Shame I
still need a few bargraph LED displays and a random number generator to
duplicate the effect on my PC...

Later.
--
Phil.
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http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 02:09:01 BST

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