https://gunkies.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3AIMLAC_PDS-1 2026-09-29T01:57:30Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.9 https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:IMLAC_PDS-1&diff=36362&oldid=prev 2025-06-09T15:04:39Z

<p><span class="autocomment">Missing links in &#039;Screen Addressing in FREEWAY&#039;: </span> new section</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:04, 9 June 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Looking at original scanned documentation, the name was usually written &#039;IMLAC&#039;, but on rare occasion on finds &#039;Imlac&#039; (e.g. in the  [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/imlac/PDS-1_TechnicalMan.pdf IMLAC PDS-1 Programmable Display System Preliminary Technical and Operator Manual], pg. 5 (of the PDF). I&#039;m going to go with &#039;IMLAC&#039;, since that is what&#039;s most common in the original documentation. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:30, 9 June 2025 (CEST)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Looking at original scanned documentation, the name was usually written &#039;IMLAC&#039;, but on rare occasion on finds &#039;Imlac&#039; (e.g. in the  [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/imlac/PDS-1_TechnicalMan.pdf IMLAC PDS-1 Programmable Display System Preliminary Technical and Operator Manual], pg. 5 (of the PDF). I&#039;m going to go with &#039;IMLAC&#039;, since that is what&#039;s most common in the original documentation. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:30, 9 June 2025 (CEST)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Missing links in 'Screen Addressing in FREEWAY' ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'Screen Addressing in FREEWAY' seems to have links in it, but they didn't work in the copy on GitHub. I found some copies of the 'IMLAC PDS-1D Programming Guide', and added them to 'External links' here, but I couldn't figure out what the later links were supposed to go to. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 17:04, 9 June 2025 (CEST)</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key mediawiki-wiki_:diff:1.41:old-36355:rev-36362:php=table --> </table>

Jnc https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:IMLAC_PDS-1&diff=36355&oldid=prev 2025-06-09T14:43:05Z

<p>Jnc moved page <a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Imlac_PDS-1&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Talk:Imlac PDS-1 (page does not exist)">Talk:Imlac PDS-1</a> to <a href="/wiki/Talk:IMLAC_PDS-1" title="Talk:IMLAC PDS-1">Talk:IMLAC PDS-1</a> without leaving a redirect: Case as per original docs</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:43, 9 June 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr> <!-- diff cache key mediawiki-wiki_:diff:1.41:old-36351:rev-36355 --> </table>

Jnc https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:IMLAC_PDS-1&diff=36351&oldid=prev 2025-06-09T13:30:16Z

<p><span class="autocomment">Name case: </span> new section</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:30, 9 June 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>: Right, but that&#039;s not mass storage (which means disk or tapes). None of the ones at Tech Sq had that, or paper tape (although I might be wrong about the latter), although I see online that they did make disks available later - they even had a FORTRAN compiler than ran on them! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:28, 19 December 2018 (CET)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>: Right, but that&#039;s not mass storage (which means disk or tapes). None of the ones at Tech Sq had that, or paper tape (although I might be wrong about the latter), although I see online that they did make disks available later - they even had a FORTRAN compiler than ran on them! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:28, 19 December 2018 (CET)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Name case ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Looking at original scanned documentation, the name was usually written 'IMLAC', but on rare occasion on finds 'Imlac' (e.g. in the  [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/imlac/PDS-1_TechnicalMan.pdf IMLAC PDS-1 Programmable Display System Preliminary Technical and Operator Manual], pg. 5 (of the PDF). I'm going to go with 'IMLAC', since that is what's most common in the original documentation. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:30, 9 June 2025 (CEST)</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key mediawiki-wiki_:diff:1.41:old-20233:rev-36351:php=table --> </table>

Jnc https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:IMLAC_PDS-1&diff=20233&oldid=prev 2018-12-19T18:28:35Z

<p>Paper tape is not mass storage! :-)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:28, 19 December 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Storage devices==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I did have paper tape. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 18:39, 19 December 2018 (CET)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I did have paper tape. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 18:39, 19 December 2018 (CET)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: Right, but that's not mass storage (which means disk or tapes). None of the ones at Tech Sq had that, or paper tape (although I might be wrong about the latter), although I see online that they did make disks available later - they even had a FORTRAN compiler than ran on them! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 19:28, 19 December 2018 (CET)</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key mediawiki-wiki_:diff:1.41:old-20231:rev-20233:php=table --> </table>

Jnc https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:IMLAC_PDS-1&diff=20231&oldid=prev 2018-12-19T17:39:21Z

<p>Paper tape.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>I did have paper tape. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 18:39, 19 December 2018 (CET)</div>

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