Watch young lads. Those are the shoulders you are standing on. The word you are looking for is… THANKS

that was a great talk thank you

This was great. Interesting content and presented so well. Thanks!

The sound of the teletype, so soothing….. Miss it actually.

Programmer god, cheers!

From the man page for bcd in Unix 7: "Bcd converts the literal text into a form familiar to old-timers." It's a toy that prints text as mock punch cards. So I guess even in 1971, punch cards were considered old enough to be worth a humorous poke at.

These guys are truly awesome. We are standing on the shoulders of Dennis, Ken, and Brian.

love the back bit system, can't wait for the next revision of the chip tester.

@24:33 Inverting 0 and 1 on the signal graphs (0 is high and 1 is low) is very confusing :-(

I have used paper tape on both the PDP-8 and PDP-11. Fortunately I used DEC paper tape reader/punch rather than a teletype. With PAL-11 you first read in the editor program. Next you typed in an assembly language program and punched a source tape. Next you loaded the two pass assembler program. Next you ran your source tape through the reader for the first pass. Next you read your source tape again for the second assembler pass. Next the assembler punched out an object tape. Next you loaded the linker program tape. Next the linker read in the object tape (or several for a large program) and then punched the executable program tape. Next you load the executable program tape and it runs. Or not. If not you load the debugger tape and load the program tape again. You debug, then load the editor and read in your source tape. Edit, punch another source tape and try all over again.

Hey Frank. I am so glad to see you in this video. It's been a long time from the old Reid Ross days. I recall you and I going-over Apollo mission timelines in huge telephone books you had gotten from your godfather. We also enjoyed going on base to movies, and listening to rock. I had left your JC Superstar album in my hot car. I still feel bad about that. I am glad to see you having realized the future I envisioned you would pursue. Take care.

I made a video that does a deep-dive into 86-DOS, that covers the process of quickly porting a CP/M program to 86-DOS (MS-DOS/PC-DOS). It explicitly covers the nature of the CP/M BDOS compatibility within. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJWahWibqq53Z6c

Yes, I remember playing Scott Adams "The Count" on a 20 character per line VIC 20 .. 40 columns was a DEFINITE improvement 😅

The best low level thinker.

It is NOT lead, it is an alloy of lead, tin and antimony, commonly know as printers metal or linotype metal, and monotone metal had more tin and antimony!

Humble with great mind!

Legends ♥️

Polite feedback, the first 15 mins is way too slow for the likely audience.

Is this an IBM 3151? I've seen such a station hooked to an RS/6000 from the mid-1990s (which was the size of a small ice box BTW).

she made the best gaming machine of my chíldhood!

This video has 6503 views as of my writing this comment. I'm sorry guys.

I've read so many books about this history. Wonderful to hear from Ron himself and to gain some real insight. Thanks VCF and Dan Kottke.

This poor woman, forced to deal with that clueless CEO at Art

I won’t lie, I’ve listened to Rebecca Heinemann in the background while either playing a game or working. Honestly anything about game development helps me concentrate

Great to relive the restoration story with the team. Thanks for recording the event!

Just goes to show what a great job the Apple (and ex-Zerox) engineers did to make this a commercial product. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

can you share some ebooks bro? about crt servicing and other electronic topics

Is there a way to find out when he is speaking next and show up to the conference?

I love how dry his sense of humor is, the jokes going over the crowd's head just makes it funnier.

so cool

Great presentation. And what a curbside find! Congrats!

Graphics on the Apple II makes me glad I went with Commodore. 😁

You know thing got serious when the speaker uses a ThinkPad :D

So basically, it offered an ergonomic level similar to today's macOS. :D

Mark and his team are simply *FANTASTIC* in ingenuity and intelligence. Following the AGC series, several times i felt a sliver in my spine. Too sorry that Mike wasn't there. I would like to know, from him as a youngster, his opinion about th AGC Computer structure. Also I haven't seen any follow-up from the screen printed phenomenally reconstructed AGC display from Ben Krasnow. Thanks anyway for all your efforts.

I wish the opening presenter said less, and Marc said more.

Thanks so much for the memories! Our computer lab at Mohawk College had a PDP8e. I had the bootloader memorized by the end of the course. Our assignments were all in assembly using PAL8. I’m happy that I got to experience this vintage machine back in the 70’s…

Very interesting video. Congratulations.

I can't believe how laid-back Ken Thompson is in this talk. He’s got some incredible stories and truly is a living legend. Listening to the creator of UNIX makes me feel like anything is possible. I enjoyed this relaxed chat with a genius who's both self-effacing and humble.

Yes, Master Ken. TCL represent!

It's a shame no one asked if Doom would run on the AGC.

Wow she is impressive

Scott is a LEGEND , there is so much he has done for the videogame industry, he really rocks.

Thank you VCF for keeping this history alive.

Amazing! I love this machine! Thank you for showing how it Works!!

Those guys are awesome!!!!!

I have 4 amiga500s and 3 c64c commodores....love my retro commodore computers.x

These guys are my heroes, idols, etc!

Very interesting and the video is well done, allowing the projection to be viewed at all times rather than zooming in to the speaker as is too often done. The only suggestion would be to put any links shown on the slides into the video notes.

One thumbs up is not enough.