Dave’s Garage: Shop Talk

ShopTalk - Blinkenlights on the PDP: How do they work? What do they do? Find out!


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00:00 - Intro

00:20 - Do those lights scrolling across the front, actually signify anything or are they just for looks?

03:27 - Please explain what is the purpose of all the flashing/scrolling lights below the 2 floppy disk drives of your PDP-11?

04:03 - All those LED’s in the front… aren’t they and their PCB blocking the airflow into the chassis?

06:09 - At some point does Kelly LeBrock magically appear in your shower?

06:31 - Sheer poetry! Now, what about implementing DECNet?

07:12 - Did you have to wrestle with DecNet vs 802.3?

07:31 - Can we telnet to it?

08:00 - Are we going to be allowed to telnet and play zork?

08:22 - So uh… Are you hosting a public website on it yet?

08:50 - What can it do online though?

09:47 - Can you send email using the old bang path addresses?

11:06 - Why not whatever the real network would have been back then?

11:57 - Since you got the code working stable, now you should go back and make the code fancier?

13:47 - How long did the ping take to return?

14:08 - A round trip time of exactly 50.001 ms appeared no less than 4 times in the ping testing… what’s with that?

14:36 - What was the communication with the internet? An icmp ping?

15:52- When are you going to get a tape drive for that system?

17:20 - Where did this little magic card come from?

17:59 - How many Unibones has the Unibone manufacturing company sold?

18:44 - Would love to see how you send code to the Unibone.

20:24 - What is the small computer on the Unibone? Is it a rasberry pi or similar?

20:49 - I have a fully working ELF II from Netronics Research… will a Beagle Bone will interface to this?

21:38 - How much more powerful is the Unibone than the PDP?

22:38 - Dave, Do you know how to calibrate the heads on a disk drive with a torque wrench and an analog meter?

24:29 - The WPS-8 operating system has no way to recognize any date or time past 23:59. Dave? Do you know how to fix it?

26:58 - What do you think I should focus on next in my hobbyist OS, a better RNG, a scheduler, an API, or SMP?

28:14 - Is there any way to make the network graphs in Task Manager NOT autoscale?

29:01 - Have you considered experimenting with the Unix V4 image recovered recently?

29:59 - I’ve locked myself out of my WIFI! Do you think, there’s any chance, that I can recover this password anywhere on my computer?

31:15 - Are the reported security issues surrounding windows 11 and Microsoft accounts real?

33:16 - Did you use ai to write that script?

35:19 - Where’s the Dave in the thumbnail?

36:44 - I see lots of car tags with 116. Was 116 your EMP_NO at Microsoft?

39:36 - The Friendly Coder..

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Dave’s Garage: Shop TalkBy Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges