[TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Interesting.
I know I've seen the Star system rig before. But the Xerox Alto one is
new to me. Wasn't the PDP-7 the fellow where UNIX really got its start
on before they moved it to a PDP-11?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM,  <iking at killthewabbit.org> wrote:
> Small correction: not a Star, an Alto.  :-)
>
> Sent from my android device.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org>
> To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Sent: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:19 AM
> Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, core dumped
>
> Jay Forrester, who invented core memory, first described it in
> a lab notebook 65 years ago today.
>
> (Thanks to the Living Computer Museum, through whose Twitter
> feed I learned this tidbit.  It's a place--the real museum,
> not just the Twitter feed--many on this list might enjoy:
> among their aged-but-working computers are a Xerox Star and
> a PDP-7.)
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
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