Playing With the Full DEC

samc · Post by **samc** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:41 pm

If I'm looking at a 494 page document from 1981, am I on the right track?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:05 pm

Yes, they wrote long manuals...

trofi · Post by **trofi** » Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:34 pm

It's quite a lot of possibilities to interpret the thing with such a vague topic.

I'd like to get some hints :]

1. Is it about punched cards at all?

2. Does it have to do with assembly instructions for machined DEC ever produced?
If yes, they've made a lot of stuff: PDP-*, VAX, ALPHA, MIPS and even ARMv4.

urmemoris · Post by **urmemoris** » Sat Jun 11, 2016 5:11 am

It is actually much easier than you might think of it. As a hint you can take a look at challenge category, it says crypto, so you shouldn't mess with instructions, it is more about text encoding. But DEC computers are the clue, thats true!

Sat Jun 11, 2016 9:53 am

urmemoris:
I see that this is one of the challenges for which no thread exists in the "Challenges Solved" section. Could you please check if you are allowed to create a new thread there? I am not sure whether the forum software allows normal users to do that.

Hippo · Post by **Hippo** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:33 pm

AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:urmemoris:
I see that this is one of the challenges for which no thread exists in the "Challenges Solved" section. Could you please check if you are allowed to create a new thread there? I am not sure whether the forum software allows normal users to do that.

I am not able to create the thread "Playing with the full DEC", but I was able to make "Such Much?" one.

It says "Thread already exists".

eulerscheZahl · Post by **eulerscheZahl** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:21 pm

Maybe because of this one: http://www.hacker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2595

Hippo · Post by **Hippo** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:46 pm

eulerscheZahl wrote:Maybe because of this one: http://www.hacker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2595

Oh I am not good at searching

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Good explanation:).