At 03:19 p.m. 19/01/2003 -0600, Andy Gardner wrote:
At 10:09 AM +1300 1/20/03, Richard Naylor wrote:
And for those of you who think "in car computers" (&MP3 players) are cool, I had an in car PDP-11 probably before you were born.
Cardboard box?
YOU WERE LUCKY!
there used to be a TI Silent 700 on the back seat. This was before "portable" teletypes like the LA34. It was silent as it was a thermal device. Problem was Westinghouse couldn't afford the thermal paper and that annoying problem with it missing the first character on each line. When you're debugging in machine code thats a real bugger !! But then I recall debugging Decnet/ddcmp with a scope on a 19.2k serial line. That was unreal as BT had'nt approved our 1200bps modems at that stage. 19.2 k devices were very fast and expensive. When I say debugging, it was teh firmware in the remote hardware. We built our own interfaces. r - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog