[mythtv-users] The Smaller... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Brian Wood]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:59:09PM -0700, Rich Wilson wrote:
>> Yes, 11 megabytes _IS_ massive!
>> http://www.pdp8.net/dfds32/dfds32.shtml
>> I calculate 181 kBits/Sec from the info.
> 
> Cut my teeth on a PDP-8/E; Cugir Edusystem 50 timesharing, BASIC and
> FOCAL; ASR/33s.

Ah yes, Focal (FOrmula CALculation). Written by Rick Merril of DEC.
Basically (no pun intended) a clone of Basic, with overtones of Algol.

Took up a little over 3K of the 4K the 8/L had available, leaving about
900 octal locations for your program.

It was written in the PAL-III assembly language IIRC.

Still hate the ASR-33s. We managed to get hold of some 35s, which held
up better.

beww