And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Where do you put the bobbin?
ReplyDeleteThat made me chuckle.
DeleteMight be usable to play pacman or store photos but there isn't a website that will recognize its ancient operating system.
ReplyDeleteYes, in a private enterprise.
ReplyDeleteI could see a few DMVs out there still using them...
ReplyDeleteYa beat me to it. I was gonna say there's got to be some government office, somewhere that still has one, or more, of those around.
DeleteUp until a few years ago PDP 11 were used as fuel rod controllers in CANDU reactors. One guy’s job was to search the internet and salvagers for parts
ReplyDeleteWith DEC gone, I would imagine parts are rather rare. I used a PDP 11-70 back in the 70s. IIRC DEC had discontinued the PDP 11 series by the mid 80s.
ReplyDeleteI have visited a government contractor which still uses a commodore 64 to control one of its production machines.
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