We booted from disc, in 79. You needed to toggle boot register on the front of the panel, tho. So not much different than tape. Students rarely got to do this, tho' I got some privileges for the locked room with this stuff and had the 3-ring runbook, to do this some mornings.
In 79-82, we had the cake-lid drives, that resembled a top-load washer. I have no idea of the sizes, I'm guessing they were 20 MB? Different disc-pacs for our use, and that on the weekends, when the school district did processing.
We kept our personal files on 8" floppy disks, with a drive accessible in the common area of the lab, away from where the DEC and large peripherals were locked.
There are several stories from this school. One is that the exchange student we had, Marcus Hess, went on to Cuckoo's Egg fame...
Also? Three-phase power. We had a beast in a friends garage, in the early 90's. He needed to convince his wife to have the new run from the panel mains.
That was that last time I touched one of these, with a crappy Wyse 50 terminal, instead of the Honeywell Teleypes or Lear Seigler ADM-3 terminals we had in the labs, where I first used Unix and Berkeley extensions.
I was hoping to find that the project entailed interfacing an actual 11/70 front panel to a Raspberry Pi. Because--yep, you see guessed it--I have an 11/70 front panel and I've wanted to do something like that for ages.
There's a similar project that does just this. This is the Blinkenbone project, "historic Blinkenlight console panels controlled by simulators".
The creator references and links all of this on his obsolescence.wixsite.com page. He explicitly states that this is a scale recreation of the PDP-11/70 panel, and uses Blinkenbone simulator logic for the RPi to drive his kits. This is preferable than having it drive the on-screen java clients, and more accessible than locating a real discarded, vintage panel.
On eBay, I see panel switches for the PDP-11/70 listed for 75-100 USD each, so unless like YOU, you're blessed with a salvage find, this is super cool.
There's no room for any other conclusion. Extraordinarily well documented. Organized by "The Syria Campaign", a group of UK origin intelligence professionals, based in New York.
That's disingenuous and superficial. Where is "green"? The idea of "greeness"? Is "greeness" built anew, by every individual organism? These are simplistic questions, but they lead to important distinctions.
These arguments are all a rehash of Chalmer's Hard Problem of Consciousness. This has been covered and argued for and against ad infinitum. The self-driving car is Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment, on four wheels.
A good elementary reading here, and an understanding that "soft AI" is NOT consciousness, is basic for us to advance any meaningful conversation here. This itself involves familiarity - not necessarily mastery - of thought by Wittgenstein, Einstein, Heisenberg and in a particular way, Kurt Gödel. None of these will equip one to prepare an answer, Q.E.D.!
But I will revert to aphorisms and insist that "Materialism is for armchairs".
He postulates, with credible evolutionary game theory, that our entire mental construct of the physical universe is wildly inaccurate. It bears only an intersectional relationship with objective reality.
To over simplify, speaking of "particles" and "forces" is to speak of phantoms generated by consciousness, not vice versa.
Nobody knows shit about consciousness, and no physical model has ever explained it, despite some 150-200 years of scientific work on the problem – years which yielded countless discoveries in dozens of other fields, many presumably directly related.
How matter produces "awareness" is a question, not understood any better now, than in the time of Aristotle, or the dark ages.
Nor shall it ever be, I expect. Not as long as assumptions about the physical nature of the universe continue to remain as they have, from those ancient days, through the era of quantum mechanics. I'd wager consciousness is still a problem, unresolved, 150 years hence.
I do think that the work by Dr Donald Hoffman at UC Irvine is very interesting, at least in explaining how we are fundamentally wrong about consciousness and perception, because a real understanding of our environment can be demonstrated as evolutionary unfitness.
They should really rename this site to "Mandot". There's not a woman to be found here. Wonder why?
I remember the old days, when Taco started this in Uni. Women were rare enough then, but the journal feature was introduced and we used to have a dynamic, if still heavily gender-weighted community.
Over time, Slashdot pivoted technically towards site changes that were contrary to development of this community, and mod policies that generated resentment, without improving the quality of conversation.
Now, we are left with something with little else to offer than a particularly resentful little MAGA subreddit. "Open sores" indeed.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences of that speech. Not if you are a mediocre shithead bigot, with specious and easily disproven biased "arguments".
There's a reason guys like Damore know nothing about women. They are unlikable, elf important and delusional assholes, and women can and DO do much better.
If y'all hate women so much, go form your perfect man's homophilic Mars colony. The stars await, man-babies.
I'm perfectly willing to believe, the authors of the Symantec software and the owners of the company want to have to provide a good anti-virus and do not want to cooperate with United States' spies. But the decision may not be up to them — US government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries.
Yes, Russian government has some such instruments as well — just pick, who you trust more...
Slashdot Mirror
Rob was what you might call a real mensch. Smart and a real sweetheart. I knew him personally, tho' not exceptionally well.
We shared close mutual friends, some going back more than 30 years.
RIP, Rob. Thank you.
The United States has ceased to be a nation, and is now more accurately described as a continental labor camp.
Yes, but you run RSTS/E or Unix first, then load the BASIC interpreter. It's line-number stuff!
We booted from disc, in 79. You needed to toggle boot register on the front of the panel, tho. So not much different than tape. Students rarely got to do this, tho' I got some privileges for the locked room with this stuff and had the 3-ring runbook, to do this some mornings.
The big boxes were racks that also held tape drives and rack-mounted disk pacs. Sometimes these were plopped into washer-machine height carriages.
In 79-82, we had the cake-lid drives, that resembled a top-load washer. I have no idea of the sizes, I'm guessing they were 20 MB? Different disc-pacs for our use, and that on the weekends, when the school district did processing.
We kept our personal files on 8" floppy disks, with a drive accessible in the common area of the lab, away from where the DEC and large peripherals were locked.
There are several stories from this school. One is that the exchange student we had, Marcus Hess, went on to Cuckoo's Egg fame...
Also? Three-phase power.
We had a beast in a friends garage, in the early 90's. He needed to convince his wife to have the new run from the panel mains.
That was that last time I touched one of these, with a crappy Wyse 50 terminal, instead of the Honeywell Teleypes or Lear Seigler ADM-3 terminals we had in the labs, where I first used Unix and Berkeley extensions.
And thanks to this project? NOW YOU CAN!
I was hoping to find that the project entailed interfacing an actual 11/70 front panel to a Raspberry Pi. Because--yep, you see guessed it--I have an 11/70 front panel and I've wanted to do something like that for ages.
There's a similar project that does just this. This is the Blinkenbone project, "historic Blinkenlight console panels controlled by simulators".
The creator references and links all of this on his obsolescence.wixsite.com page. He explicitly states that this is a scale recreation of the PDP-11/70 panel, and uses Blinkenbone simulator logic for the RPi to drive his kits. This is preferable than having it drive the on-screen java clients, and more accessible than locating a real discarded, vintage panel.
On eBay, I see panel switches for the PDP-11/70 listed for 75-100 USD each, so unless like YOU, you're blessed with a salvage find, this is super cool.
Because you have a real salvage panel, this is what you want, the Blinkenbone panel, on the retrocmp site:
http://retrocmp.com/projects/b...
http://retrocmp.com/projects/b...
There's no room for any other conclusion. Extraordinarily well documented. Organized by "The Syria Campaign", a group of UK origin intelligence professionals, based in New York.
https://dissidentvoice.org/201...
https://www.mintpressnews.com/...
https://www.truthdig.com/artic...
This article touches on many of the overall issues, implicit in the "question", as it is.
"It’s time to kill the web"
https://blog.plan99.net/its-ti...
I'll say! Hilarious, this being a Microsoft Word template web page, originally hosted on IIS!
Oh, those daze.
John Katz. Poor fellow.
That's disingenuous and superficial.
Where is "green"? The idea of "greeness"? Is "greeness" built anew, by every individual organism?
These are simplistic questions, but they lead to important distinctions.
These arguments are all a rehash of Chalmer's Hard Problem of Consciousness.
This has been covered and argued for and against ad infinitum. The self-driving car is Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment, on four wheels.
A good elementary reading here, and an understanding that "soft AI" is NOT consciousness, is basic for us to advance any meaningful conversation here. This itself involves familiarity - not necessarily mastery - of thought by Wittgenstein, Einstein, Heisenberg and in a particular way, Kurt Gödel. None of these will equip one to prepare an answer, Q.E.D.!
But I will revert to aphorisms and insist that "Materialism is for armchairs".
Hoffman is far more radical than this.
He postulates, with credible evolutionary game theory, that our entire mental construct of the physical universe is wildly inaccurate. It bears only an intersectional relationship with objective reality.
To over simplify, speaking of "particles" and "forces" is to speak of phantoms generated by consciousness, not vice versa.
Show me some.
I really would like to see it. The "Hard Problem" is just as remote as when it was labeled such.
Nobody knows shit about consciousness, and no physical model has ever explained it, despite some 150-200 years of scientific work on the problem – years which yielded countless discoveries in dozens of other fields, many presumably directly related.
How matter produces "awareness" is a question, not understood any better now, than in the time of Aristotle, or the dark ages.
Nor shall it ever be, I expect. Not as long as assumptions about the physical nature of the universe continue to remain as they have, from those ancient days, through the era of quantum mechanics. I'd wager consciousness is still a problem, unresolved, 150 years hence.
I do think that the work by Dr Donald Hoffman at UC Irvine is very interesting, at least in explaining how we are fundamentally wrong about consciousness and perception, because a real understanding of our environment can be demonstrated as evolutionary unfitness.
They should really rename this site to "Mandot". There's not a woman to be found here. Wonder why?
I remember the old days, when Taco started this in Uni. Women were rare enough then, but the journal feature was introduced and we used to have a dynamic, if still heavily gender-weighted community.
Over time, Slashdot pivoted technically towards site changes that were contrary to development of this community, and mod policies that generated resentment, without improving the quality of conversation.
Now, we are left with something with little else to offer than a particularly resentful little MAGA subreddit. "Open sores" indeed.
Bezosymandias.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences of that speech. Not if you are a mediocre shithead bigot, with specious and easily disproven biased "arguments".
There's a reason guys like Damore know nothing about women. They are unlikable, elf important and delusional assholes, and women can and DO do much better.
If y'all hate women so much, go form your perfect man's homophilic Mars colony. The stars await, man-babies.
Was just about to say...
You got the compassion of a sand-dab, my friend.
Crime? It's a rich man's racket. The numbers show it. Everything else is brainwashing about race and class.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP...
I'm perfectly willing to believe, the authors of the Symantec software and the owners of the company want to have to provide a good anti-virus and do not want to cooperate with United States' spies. But the decision may not be up to them — US government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries.
Yes, Russian government has some such instruments as well — just pick, who you trust more...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
https://www.muckrock.com/news/...
https://www.dailykos.com/stori...