Notices by Lars Brinkhoff (larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org)

@jxself I'll tell you in eight hours.

@amszmidt Sounds like a Zelazny novel.

@brouhaha We still have copies of TECO for the MIT AI lab PDP-6 that uses 175/176 as altmode.

The Stanford AI lab also got started with the old character set and retained 175 as the escape character in their system. 33 was reused as the mathematical symbol ≠.

This is the proper way to console a child.

@amszmidt You built a shrine now?

@loke You think that's an outrage? I ate a semla the other day.

I have an 1:3 scale VT100 keyboard attached to my laptop. Should make typing 33% faster.

@vitaut Why, did you hire a language hitman?

How to play Zork closest to the original experience.

@norootcause @unnick PDP-10 has entered the chat.

#OnThisDay The PDP-10 family was cancelled 41 years ago at DECUS.

@mwichary For a small, but illustrious, set of people, the XGP fonts are probably etched into their memory. The XGP printer was made at Xerox PARC and distributes to handful of academic and research institutes in the early 70s. Many computer science and artificial intelligence papers and theses were printed on the XGP. The fonts were jointly maintained between MIT, CMU, Stanford, ISI, etc.

Congratulations to all Data General fans for making those great jokes yesterday.

In response to

If your computer is riddled with minicomputer software from Bell Labs, get yourself a PiDP-10.

Happy birthday, PDP-10!

@stephenrkell Good article! Reading it was an hour well spent. This growing trend of knee-jerk reactions against C never sat too well with me.

#OnThisDay 45 years ago, the MIT
AI Lab PDP-10 magic switch was removed.

@mitexleo @jxself You guys have language in your dreams?!?

Building the PiDP-10.