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For many different reasons (mostly having to do with highly interactive simulated environments -- for example, games), the primary computer in my "lab" runs Windows 95. However, on this particular weekend I was more concerned with another computer that, in many ways, was about as powerful as the Java Ring: a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/e.
The PDP-8 was arguably the first true personal computer. Designed in the late 1960s and produced in relatively high quantities in the 70s, the PDP-8 could be lifted by a single individual, was powered by 120-volt line current, and cost less than 0,000. Most of these computers shipped with a single peripheral: a Teletype Model ASR-33 terminal -- the original "TTY" in computer lingo.
The ASR-33 teletype was a printing terminal that came with a paper-tape reader and punch. Yep, it was paper tape, 1"-wide paper with holes punched in it, that was the primary storage medium for programs on the PDP-8.
The PDP-8 was the first computer I ever programmed and therefore it has a special place in my heart. Further, due to some fortuitous circumstances, I was in the right place at the right time and managed to save a PDP-8 that was going to be scrapped as junk. A photograph of my prize is shown below.

A Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/e
On this special weekend not too long ago, I decided to bring the PDP-8 back to life, if only to relive those precious early memories and to show my daughter just how good she has it with her "measley old 133-MHz Pentium."
To begin my revival effort, I had to get a program into the PDP-8. On the PDP-8, this is achieved by following a three-step process:
After going through these three steps, the program you want to run is stored in core memory. All the user needs to do then is set the starting address and tell the machine to "go."