Simulating a Machine from the 80s

Post by jcims » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 2:49 PM UTC

hn92726819 wrote: post #9

jcims wrote: post #2

Off-topic but I used to do security assessments and had a bunch of small banks for customers. One of them was still running the banking software they had when they first got computerized and it ran on an HP3000 from the 70s. Over the years reliable hardware became impossible to find, so they bought some emulator software and ran it on Windows. I don't know why but it always made me chuckle. That thing did *not* like…

> That thing did not like port scans What do you mean? As a security feature or would it crash or something if you port scanned it?

Post by aa-jv » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 9:05 AM UTC

tzot wrote: post #8

aa-jv wrote: post #5

Great work! Its always very interesting to hear about the machines made behind the iron curtain, and that there is still indeed an enthusiastic scene keeping those machines alive. My favourite machine of the 80's - the Oric-1/Atmos system - was cloned in the Eastern bloc countries by Pravetz, and became known as the Pravetz 8D. It was quite an interesting day when support for that clone dropped into the Oric emulator…

> Something about having Cyrillic where the lower-case character set should be, just tickles my hacker heart. We did the same on the ZX Spectrum in Greece for our programs: replace the lowercase latin letters with the keyboard-matching greek letters. I still remember the vulgar ΣΨΡΟΛΛ? when the screen filled up and the machine asked your permission to scroll!