Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:41:19 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | [OT] PDP-8 - was: Re: time_t size: The year 2038 bug? |
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> A friend of mine is still occasionally making money with PDP 8 software. > Some of these systems are being used for control of industrial machines > which keeping up with the version number bloat of the industry was not > necessary and, the hardware seems to be rock solid so they're still > running the same software after all these decades. > > How old are these machines today?
Ah, nostalgia. My first operating system, with virtual PDP-8's on a PDP-8. That must have been around 1968-1973.
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