Christian Corti wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2003, Tom Jennings wrote:
>
>>... opens with some very pretty PDP-8 stuff, a VT52?, a woman mounting
>>dectapes....
>>The movie of course!
>
>
> What else ;-) I've recorded it on a SVHS tape for better quality. You can
> even see the woman verifying the start address of 7605 (or was it 7600?)
> before pressing CONT.
>
> Another interesting movie is "The angry red planet", a SF movie from the
> late fifties. The main computer on board of the space craft is a huge
> Borroughs tube computer, with operator console and reel tape drives. It's
> fun to see the tubes glowing, at least you get that impression and to
> watch the tapes moving.
> Does anybody know the model of the computer?
>
This is the classic si-fi computer. The B-205.
See link.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/B205/
BTW I have yet to find good programing information on it
as a classic computer.
Received on Mon Dec 15 2003 - 11:48:53 GMT