household archaology

[rmd]

so, as part of clauclauclaudia's imminent move-in, i'm outcrufting, which includes going thru a crapload of books.

found in the pile of books: one 1979 "advanced d&d" dm's guide. with a computer punchcard in it as a bookmark.

ETA, additional things: DEC's "introduction to minicomputer networks" (1975). 20 year old issues of OMNI magazine. 20 year old issues of "on our backs" (yum).

Comments

I'll see your 10 and lower it to 8!

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= My high school had a PDP-8. I had no idea that it was a really old machine until I went looking for some documentation. Somewhere in the back of the school's textbook supply room was a manual from 1969.

It was so old, the pages were yellowed. It was so old, "documentation" meant learning the assembly language (BASIC was added later).

The book had a very welcoming title, though (Introduction to Programming), and was extremely well-written. Somehow it made one of the nuttiest assembly languages seem easy.