https://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&feed=atom&action=historyMain Page - Revision history2024-03-28T08:55:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.41.0https://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1595&oldid=prevMargy: /* What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? */2019-04-01T12:19:59Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.?</span></span></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Here is a handout explaining "[[Who Are the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.?]]", written for the Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1971.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Margyhttps://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1594&oldid=prevMargy: /* What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? */2019-04-01T11:57:19Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.?</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped, the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed. The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing. Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)]. This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis. Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner? Judge for yourself. </del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household. Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users. Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right. Then both were proven right.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The dogs mostly. A breeding pair of malamutes. Every spring they produced a litter of 7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125. They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming. Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black. One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway. No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The dogs mostly. A breeding pair of malamutes. Every spring they produced a litter of 7 to 9 puppies. Each sold for $125. They did have to be bailed out occasionally after a night spent roaming. Because the fines were less than the puppy price, they kept us in the black. One of the malamutes destroyed a model 33 ASR Teletype as it flew through a doorway. No lives were lost, but the model 33 was never the same.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">= Stories? =</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped, the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed. The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing. Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)]. This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis. Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner? Judge for yourself. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped, the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed. The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing. Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)]. This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis. Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner? Judge for yourself. </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household. Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users. Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right. Then both were proven right.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household. Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users. Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right. Then both were proven right.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)]. When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)]. When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while. Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8. Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor. The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?" Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while. Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8. Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor. The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?" Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year. Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known. On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin. I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>We took a bus ride up to New York for the IEEE show one year. Although we did not mount a formal exhibit such as the hallway terminal shown at the SJCC, we nevertheless made our presence known. On the long bus ride up, JB had brought a can of peanut brittle. She offered some to fellow RESISTORS and then walked up the aisle of the bus holding out the can to the other passengers. One kindly looking gentleman saw the outstretched can, reached in his pocket and then dropped in a coin. I don't recall if the coin went into the RESISTORS treasury!</div></td></tr>
</table>NatKuhnhttps://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1577&oldid=prevNatKuhn: /* Who were the RESISTORS? */ got rid of italics2013-07-28T17:54:11Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Who were the RESISTORS?: </span> got rid of italics</span></p>
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</table>NatKuhnhttps://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1573&oldid=prevNatKuhn: /* What did the RESISTORS do? */ added info re: Ted and the Software show2013-07-28T17:00:55Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">What did the RESISTORS do?: </span> added info re: Ted and the Software show</span></p>
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</table>NatKuhnhttps://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1570&oldid=prevNatKuhn: created a link to a page on The RESISTORS and Trac, and removed the SAM76 blip2013-07-28T16:15:40Z<p>created a link to a page on The RESISTORS and Trac, and removed the SAM76 blip</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house. The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity! We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the Trac language, and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time. After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages. The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second. It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house. The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity! We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[The RESISTORS and Trac|</ins>Trac language<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, and also into a PDP-6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time. After Digital Equipment Corp. donated a PDP-8, a lot of the computer use happened in the Barn, using Trac and other languages. The only way to load a program into the '8 was via the paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second. It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.</div></td></tr>
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</table>NatKuhnhttps://www.resistors.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=1569&oldid=prevNatKuhn: /* What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.? */ : added link to the History Page2013-07-28T16:11:22Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">What was the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S.?: </span> : added link to the History Page</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exhibited </del>at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">computer shows</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we taught each other </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">program [http://www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">resistors.org/images/RESISTORS_using_TRAC.html </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">picture</del>)<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we fooled around</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The stuff we did with computers would be perfectly normal for kids to do now</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but we did it before personal computers existed</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some of our programming used paper tape and punch cards!</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">met every Saturday </ins>at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Barn and in Claude's house</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">often from 11 am </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10 pm or so</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> The group was as much social as it was technically-oriented, there was a lot of folk music </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dave Theriault and later Lauren Sarno did a lot of folk music on guitar and vocals</ins>)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. We didn't</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">uh, exactly 'fit in' at school </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for many of us this was the center of our social</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> A number of RESISTORS became close</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life-long friends</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On a Saturday night</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when the temperature dropped</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jam up with every character printed. The best thing to do was go inside </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">discuss the future of computing. Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner </del>[http://www.resistors.org/images/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">homereckoner1</del>.html (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">notes</del>)<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This multi</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tentacled creation served as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">home controller</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">entertainment for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">owners</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Did today</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s Personal Computer evolve from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Home Reckoner? </del> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Judge for yourself</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The two principles of the group</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">undoubtedly formulated by Claude</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were "hands on" (as opposed </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most museums' "hands off" policies) </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>[http://www.resistors.org/images/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">RESISTORS_using_TRAC</ins>.html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">each one teach one]" </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">once you learned something, you should be willing to pass it on, and teaching was generally one-on-one rather than in classes</ins>).</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the early days, computer use centered around the massive ASR-35 Teletype dial-up terminal in Claude's house. The teletype was upper case only and ran at 10 characters per second, so early programming had a premium on brevity! </ins> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We dialed in to Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric to program in the Trac language, and also into a PDP</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6 (and later PDP-10) time-sharing system run by Applied Logic, Inc., a local company which donated time. After Digital Equipment Corp. donated </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PDP-8</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a lot of the computer use happened in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Barn</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">using Trac </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other languages</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The only way to load a program into the </ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8 was via </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paper tape reader on its ASR-33 Teletype, also at 10 bytes per second. </ins> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It took about 20 minutes to load the Trac processor, before you could start programming.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Princeton University also donated computer time on their IBM mainframes</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We hated IBM, which dominated the computer industry at the time, but that didn't stop us from making up our decks of punched cards!</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home </del>computer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Others maintained that all an individual needed </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">home was a simple dumb terminal </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">powerful processing resource</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">large quantities </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">memory and the ability to interact with other users. Until </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">internet took off</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it looked as if the proponents </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the home computer had been right</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Then both were proven right</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We exhibited at several </ins>computer <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shows</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Claude engineered a major coup at the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)]; </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">conference coincided </ins>with a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">telephone company strike</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so none </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exhibitors could get phone lines installed</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which meant that a high proportion </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exhibits were completely dead</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We set up a terminal by a phone book [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)] and dialed into Claude's PDP-8 at Western Electric</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ''Trenton Times'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/trentontimes.html article] about the club in 1967. The ''Newark Sunday News'' wrote an [http://www.resistors.org/old/newarknews.html article] in May 1967.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We went to the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC%20SHOW%20FLOOR.jpg (picture)] and provided a remote terminal over a phone connection in a phone booth to a PDP-8 [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCCPhoneBooth.jpg (picture)]. Our remote connection was the only one at the show that worked, because a phone strike prevented the exhibitors' phones from being installed. Although computer time was offered free at the SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)]. When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Contribute your own stories here. (good taste is necessary, historical accuracy is less important)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Contribute your own stories here. (good taste is necessary, historical accuracy is less important)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On a Saturday night, when the temperature dropped, the cold grease in the Friden Flexowriters caused them to jam up with every character printed. The best thing to do was go inside and discuss the future of computing. Many lively discussions revolved around the concept of a Home Reckoner [http://www.resistors.org/images/homereckoner1.html (notes)]. This multi-tentacled creation served as a home controller, entertainment for the owners, and a tool for everything from baby sitting to stock market analysis. Did today's Personal Computer evolve from the Home Reckoner? Judge for yourself. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many of us argued that the future lay with an in-home computer which would permit the user to write programs, play solitary games, and control the household. Others maintained that all an individual needed in the home was a simple dumb terminal with the capability of connecting to a large central computer which provided a powerful processing resource, large quantities of memory and the ability to interact with other users. Until the internet took off, it looked as if the proponents of the home computer had been right. Then both were proven right.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Although computer time was offered free at the [1968] SJCC, you did have to take a number [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC_take_a_number.html (picture)]. When you got your turn, and your program didn't run immediately, then you had to think [http://www.resistors.org/images/SJCC,%20thinking.jpg (picture)].</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while. Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8. Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor. The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?" Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At a show where we exhibited the PDP-8, a well dressed man walked up and watched the RESISTORS program for a while. Then he asked what the "PDP" stood for in PDP-8. Bob explained that it stood for Programmed Data Processor. The man paused for a minute and then asked, "What does the Programmed Data Processor do in relation to the computer?" Bob said "That is the computer". Without a word the man walked off.</div></td></tr>
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