Video documentary: Programming your PDP-11
DePauw University put together course materials on programming a 1970′s-era PDP-11 minicomputer. The materials fit into a larger course on computer organization and design. While the acting is sometimes corny, the technology is true. They demonstrate how computer programs were made thirty years ago: paper tape, toggled-in loaders and two-pass assemblers.
Read their article and papers here.
The videos, via Youtube:
January 27, 2009 at 3:42 pm
[...] Here’s a wonderful intro to a collection of videos and instructional materials from the 1970s on how to program and operate a DEC PDP-11. First, toggle in your loader, then boot from paper tape…. Very cool, in a retro way. I did a lot of PDP-11 stuff back in the mid-70s. [...]
January 28, 2009 at 8:27 am
[...] Geoff Arnold I learned of a series of YouTube videos (no ’series of tubes’ jokes, please) about how PDP-11 computers were [...]