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PIXIE and FORTH on PDP-7 Cabinet Emulator with Type 340 Vector Graphics Display

Don Hopkins■Hardware & EngineeringWatch on YouTube ↗first found Oct 9, 2026 · last mentioned Oct 31, 2026
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Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

▲ 421 pointsstory by franzeOct 9, 20261 comment mentionRead on HN ↗
“Last time I accidentally said something sarcasticly over-ambitious to an LLM, it shipped this popup callout tooltip feature on a PDP-7 Type 340 vector graphics display emulator that shows you the mean…”— DonHopkins, when sharing this video · read the comment ↗
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Brief History of PDP Computers

▲ 46 pointsstory by ibobevOct 29, 20261 comment mentionRead on HN ↗
“I just made a PDP-7 and Type 340 vector graphics display emulator that runs in the web browser, based on SIMH, in order to reincarnate and run 128 pages of PDP-7 assembly language source code listings…”— DonHopkins, when sharing this video · read the comment ↗
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I'm Fucking Done with Slop

▲ 24 pointsstory by speckxOct 16, 20261 comment mentionRead on HN ↗
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