What a great accompaniment this would be to reading Steven Levy’s book Hackers - The Hero’s of the Computer Revolution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compu...
PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
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#42I have the PiDP-11, assembled it myself from the kit. It was exciting for me to be able to run RSTS/E, which is one of the first operating systems I ever worked on. I only wish I had a Decwriter to physically connect to it. And visitors to my office love the blinky lights.
I was once called by a former employer to see if I would do some consulting on a RSX-11M system I used to work on. When I realized I didn't even remember how to log on, I turned them down.
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#43I love my PiDP-11 and the PiDP-8 as well. He is working on a PDP-10 next. That is going to be hecka fun to be running TOPS20 (yeah I know simh dude, but it seems so much more fun when you have the "look" to go with it.)
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#44Honestly, I've always thought a high quality 3D computer model of the entire thing (including the peripherals) would serve the purpose of learning about this stuff much better; an added benefit: doesn't take space. Learning in the virtual space in general has a huge potential. Even watching educational videos (like those found in abundance on YouTube) suffices in many cases. The age of plastic toys is behind us.
Interestingly, the author gives four reasons for building the project. Four “purposes” if you will. Learning was not one of them.
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#45I have the PiDP-11, assembled it myself from the kit. It was exciting for me to be able to run RSTS/E, which is one of the first operating systems I ever worked on. I only wish I had a Decwriter to physically connect to it. And visitors to my office love the blinky lights.
I was once called by a former employer to see if I would do some consulting on a RSX-11M system I used to work on. When I realized I didn't even remember how to log on, I turned them down.
I have occasionally wondered if I truly forgot systems I once used, or if sitting down in front of one would reactivate all the old muscle memory. Assuming, of course, that subsequent sysadmins haven't changed it in the meantime:)
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#46Oh, those marketing folk who designed the console switches -- how often I dreamed of appropriate places to send them for education...
What was wrong with them?
Re: PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
#47I love my PiDP-11 and the PiDP-8 as well. He is working on a PDP-10 next. That is going to be hecka fun to be running TOPS20 (yeah I know simh dude, but it seems so much more fun when you have the "look" to go with it.)
TOPS-20 with a KA10 console. Anachronistic but fun!
Re: PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
#48What a great accompaniment this would be to reading Steven Levy’s book Hackers - The Hero’s of the Computer Revolution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compu...
In that case you should probably try ITS.
Re: PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi
#49What a great accompaniment this would be to reading Steven Levy’s book Hackers - The Hero’s of the Computer Revolution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compu...
In that case you should probably try ITS. http://github.com/PDP-10/its
Thanks for the link.
What hardware this would install on?
I was just thinking how neat it would be to have a place where you could go online to try out all these old operating systems.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
In that case you should probably try ITS. http://github.com/PDP-10/its
Thanks for the link. What hardware this would install on? I was just thinking how neat it would be to have a place where you could go online to try out all these old operating systems.
It works on a PC or Rasberry Pi, or anything similar. Linux works best, because that's what most users have, but MacOS, FreeBSD and Windows work too although the last one can't run the build script.
Various people have ITS running online. Here's mine (click to access the hidden content). http://its.pdp10.se/