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Das blinkenlights are back thanks to RPi revival of the PDP-11

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wonderfully elegant instruction set. (@james_smith)

"the PDP-11 had a wonderfully elegant instruction set."

Programmers Cards were a Thing back in the day. Here's one DEC prepared earlier:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decpdp11PDul75_1582192

or direct to theappropriate PDF at

https://archive.org/download/bitsavers_decpdp11PDul75_1582192/PDP-11_Programming_Card_Jul75_text.pdf

Also available via Bitsavers (and/or archive.org) are DEC (and other) Processor Handbooks and such other outdated stuff (e.g. diagnostics) as are generally considered irrelevant in the 'modern' world. Bitsavers is a great resource for such things, though for DEC stuff there are often other places to look.

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