Programming the PDP11, part 1 of 4

[DrMalevolus]

a geek girl.. :-D

[Madness832]

OK, now take her further back & give her a shot @ programming the ENIAC! Think it only had only about 6,000 switches & miles of cables!

[hoochiscrazier]

Why this girl didn't win an oscar is beyond me.

[SephirothWEAPON93]

Ffs... Duncan :@

[inappropiatejoke]

Fuckin Smead

[ZeroViruzz]

You could probably run MINI-UNIX on that thing. It should support PDP-11/10 at lest according to PUPS PDP-11 Unix FAQ.

[SoSayethTheMan]

Nice machine ...idiots in the video ruin it

[JohnnyLucero13]

2:26 "There's really no time for that right now." Actually, they have all the time they need. They have a TIME MACHINE. I'm the one without a time machine, who's not getting the last 5 1/2 minutes of my life back. Love the Deep Purple background music.

[vapourmile]

These are the geekiest people I have ever seen. I admire them.

[sulmann26]

That is not a minicomputer :/

[pjtechy]

u didnt have to mention the time machine ...

[ensign0777]

Octal?

Hell. I used to be able to do long division in hex.

Anyone remember log tables?...  :-)

[jkeithbrown1369]

As a guy who had to fix these things being able to fat finger a routine was mandatory.

I was asked more than once if I was assembling that routine in my head. I can stil 12737 with the best of them.

[kargaroc386]

this is the weirdest video I've ever seen ever.

[rumproast2000]

Tara is a babe!

[xXxDiukexXx]

Start typing program...

Few hours later...

*Printing* Hello World!

Epic.

[xXxDiukexXx]

LOL I see not much difference, I mean at the begining she was using Turbo...

[Joan0000000]

DARKPLACE!

[HoustonAnons]

That's what she said @ 2:34

ahaha

[HoustonAnons]

@HoustonAnons

And at 2:40 ha

[phektus]

guess where the chic is looking when she's on the camera during the start of the video

[tapamn]

"Oh, wait, I know! I'm been working on writing a program than controls a holodeck!"

If you have trouble remembering something like that, you need to get checked for Alzheimer's.

[jooelywooely]

this could have been interesting and informative, but instead it is just an exercise in painful-to-watch acting

[genocidepv]

lol i love it :D

[moveaxebx]

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[siliconsurf]

i remember coding shit in assembly language...it was like coding in chinese...talking about unproductive...

[siliconsurf]

programming this thing was like watching paint dry...fortunately, progress was made over the past 30 years.

[Murray06]

hit it with lightning, it's Short Circuit all over again

[RetroGamerVX]

My god the beginning of this starts like an adult entertainment video and just makes this look so cheesy. Why not just get to the point instead of all the patronising stuff that makes it look like it's aimed at 8 year olds.

Apart from that, interesting video!! :o)

[Serpico261]

@RetroGamerVX im thankful for every cheesy computer vid out there. 

[RetroGamerVX]

@Serpico261 Yes, I've been working with one of these lately that does not work. It's interesting to see how to use it :o)

[petestowne]

Wonderful office, no windows to convey a false sense of hope.

[neocon70]

why is her line of sight focusing on his crotch?

[blueshifter]

why is he resting his crotch on her desk?

[neuralwarp]

There's 5 minutes of my life that I'll never get back ! :(

[gtoger]

"I'm sure glad you remember your octal. We'll be using that when we toggle." Oh baby, talk dirty to me!

[gigagigagilgamesh]

OH FUCK YES PDP-11! I'm gonna code the hell out of this dot matrix!

[Trollinista]

How did we go from knowledgeable programmers being our experts to YouBube where 10 year old kids are our "experts". Most can't run a program on an Android phone without getting spit on their shoes.

[caesiume]

Couldn't they have gotten some students from the drama/theatre department to act in this?

[SandraBullcocked]

32k? That's not enough space to download my files! From the INTERNET!

[SandraBullcocked]

Wow, Holodeks! At DePaul (DePauw?) universtity, no doubt!

[013108today]

Is that an RTTY Mona Lisa on the wall?f

[gemis94]

the cheesynes is epic

[rollokb2]

programing unix onto that must have been hell

So many lines

[kinglonewolf104]

I laughed so much when watching this. Not so much about the computer, but more the bad acting! Tara reminds me of Allyson Hannigan :)

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&eB

[dethSwatch]

Hey! I saw those BC++ manuals on the shelf at 2:27! That compiler wasn't even around when the pdp-11 was contemporary. I hope someone got (geek snort) fired over that error :)

[flanders243]

hey baby, need help debugging your app? just pop this in your mouth

[daniel74f]

The beginning of the video looks like the beginning of a porn video... :-b

[mrmartinmartin]

@daniel74f I don't think that's an accident.

[albertusj]

@daniel74f cheap cable type....hehehe

[beehard44]

@daniel74f computer porn lol

[mrmartinmartin]

@daniel74f geek porn!

[carlosap78]

@daniel74f  nerd pron video

[carlosap78]

@daniel74f  nerd pron video

[AvidAngels]

@daniel74f seems like you had watch a lot of 70's porn video...

[wizardofeyes]

Nice Video. Brings back a lot of good memories. I'd kill for another hour again with my old PDP 11/45. Still remember LOGIN 35,1. 1.4 meg 14" disk packs. Those were the days!

[zooto68]

Holy Crap !! That is Alyson Hannigan from American Pie !! The Flute Pussy Girl !! :O

[rileyhend]

I know the whole point of the video is to have a look at times gone past, but I cannot see past how APPALLING the acting is.

[aktendulli]

i'd never travel with a time machine version 1.0

[bashbrannigan]

Cute nerd girl!

[m1dget]

Why is she talking to his crotch? (1:02)

o.O

[mrmartinmartin]

And why not?

[theodricaethelfrith]

A holodeck? Worst. Pick-up. Line. Evar.

[Lachlant1984]

Youtube wasn't around back then.

[cobrachoppergirl]

You'd need that amount if you wanted to hold 4 mp3's, that's what you'd need all that disk space for. Jeesh.

[cobrachoppergirl]

Beautiful machine in a retro kind of way, until some damn course forces you to program on this wretched old piece of garbage. Rather learn on a 6502.

[buzzjunked]

lol her problem is using c++ thats the bug sadly this shipwreck of a language is pretty much standard now

[kingcrimson234]

yep. quickbasic is where it's at today, not that c++ garbage.

[cajunpunisher]

This is too funny b/c there's a company in Shreveport I used to work for in like 94 that had some of the same old ancient equipment. They did billing for a lot of companies around town. They were called Alpha Omega. They even had a mainframe with 8" floppy disk drives that clanked when it read the data from the disks. I worked on a DEC Vax 11/780 with 512K of ram. Try programming in COBOL 85 with those specs! The thing would lock up or give out of memory errors all of the time! Sheeesh!

[samiam95124]

Cute video. As someone who programmed such a machine back then, this video describes a system that was never used. Even when paper print terminals were in use (by the end of the 70's ttys were the rule), a disk system would have been mandatory for such a system. By the end of the 1970s, when I used a pdp-11, we had multiple terminals running Teco, and a primitive timeshare operating system. While this was certainly not windows, it was nowhere near as primitive as tape only methods portrayed.

[Velktron]

Thoughts so. It looked more like it would be done in the 60s or on 70s hobbyist computers, not on a machines bought my a major organization such as the army or a university.

[asdasdaksljahsldksda]

I *did* use machines in the 70's and only cold boot was toggled in (less than a dozen words) sually when the system crashed, rebuilt, etc. Rarely. If you were toggling crap into a production machine it meant you were in deep guano. It was quite macho to be able to patch programs in binary from the front panel; I worked with a guy who patched/debugged FORTRAN4 that way. Waaaaay badass macho.

[Velktron]

Was he a Real Programmer (TM), by any chance?

[WishMaster89]

That was great! I just finished an Assembly Language course and used PDP-11 simulator (running on windows) to program. Didn't know it was much harder in those days to do what i did. I learned alot from this.

[Quag7]

Thanks for this. I always wondered about the specifics of programming these old machines!

[stevebasset]

That looked like fun. who needs a keyboard anyhow :)

[ess1898]

Correction when I say primitive I meant that even on a system with no disks and just paper tape you had better programming tools avaialble on paper tape. the PDP/11 here was more than powerful enough to do a whole lot more than just toggle switch programming, particularly if you added some disks and a terminal. even without disk you could load standalone editors and compilers from paper tape and do more traditional programming, there was even standalone DDT which was a debugger.

[ess1898]

I seriously doubt many people did programming that way even with such a primitive system, there was a large library of paper tape programs including a fortran compiler and assembler and debugger that loaded off of tape and could edit and compile back to tape programs from the TTY.

[jtel]

Thanks for posting this.

[RandomGuyWithPants]

Man, somebody needs to start making these computers again.

[ahanix1988]

Rasterbated Mona Lisa?

[SilentDrapeRunner]

Great!!!

[linuxlove8088]

BTW, I LOVE the Intro and ending (PT. 4) music!

[snownet]

Such bad acting

yet so awesome

[CANVECVIDEO]

i think it's a pretty good idea to show this, to the young generation of kids who are growing up, in the iphone age!!! :-)

[darijo203]

somebody give them gcc :)

[dbalexamiga]

I lol'ed.

[GreenMeanie2007]

didn't need the plot.

[nmarcel]

arghhh! ...even the unix "vi" editor looks comfortable compared with that.

[Vyggy]

Believe it or not, I would want to do that. Java doesn't seem so terrible until you start programming in it.

[xyzzy123456]

I lol'ed :)

[DoctorComputer]

Actually a pretty cool video - they really didn't need to include the ridiculous plot, though...(and best theme song. EVER.)

[FelixFlores86]

A girl in CSE? This must be fiction.

[SecretTheatre]

Many early (and unsung) figures in the history of computer science and programming were women. And have you ever heard of Ada Lovelace?

[mrynit]

Grace Murray Hopper- made first computer language compiler. GO NAVY

[youarthurhu]

That big ol screen is cute. HP 2100 was worse. No stack register.

[GRIFF74]

She's cute

[yaKC]

Nice to see a real machine :D Thanks

[rainbowbowserpow9999]

stupid not so realisticly acted stupidness ...

[yoyo1poe]

very interesting, too bad the acting is so retardedly-bad.

[realomon]

indeed

[lunsj]

That's part of the charm! Love the guy in the awful wig.

[cpmisalive]

I promise I will never complain about my development tools again.