[ih] A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966

[Jared E. Richo]

Jorge,

If you, or anyone else, in this effort or similar produces something 
new, related to actual vulnerabilities in Multics regardless of platform 
or age, I will pay a bounty!

I am familiar with Karger & Schell's work, the Repaired Security Bugs in 
Multics list, etc. I like to think I am familiar with any cited works 
along these lines, but will happily review anything provided.

That said, I am after new vulnerabilities in old operating systems. If 
you are using new/modern tools to find unpublished vulns in old systems, 
that is exactly what I am after.

If you aren't interested in the money, I will be more than happy to 
donate it to a charity of your choice. If you don't want it, it will 
incentivize me to donate more to your cause.

I am a vulnerability historian, by chosen title (you can Google my prior 
work, presenting on vulns starting in 1902). I don't care how I find new 
vulnerabilities (to me), and I don't care how old they sat in code. In 
fact, it is a bonus if they sat there longer to help prove that 
vulnerabilities -can- sit there for incredible amounts of time.

I love reading this list and reading about computer history in general. 
So any opportunity to find out a little hidden nugget of information in 
our shared realm is fascinating to me. =)

Thanks,

.b


On 6/6/2024 10:24 PM, Jorge Amodio via Internet-history wrote:
> 
> It’s a very cool replica, finished to put it together few weeks ago. I also have the PiDP-11 and PiDP-8 from Oscar.
> 
> If you are into retro-computing totally worth the $$
> 
> Cheers
> -Jorge
> 
>> On Jun 6, 2024, at 09:39, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>
>> EXCERPT:
>>
>> ... Why? Why go to all this trouble? First, there’s the historical
>> importance. Built from 1959 to the early 1970s, the PDP machines were
>> groundbreaking. Not only were they much cheaper than the giant mainframes
>> used by the military and large corporations, they were designed as
>> multipurpose, fully interactive machines. You didn’t have to produce
>> programs on punch cards which were then handed to the IT department, who
>> would run them through the computer, which provided a print-out, which
>> you’d debug maybe a day later. With the PDPs, you could type directly into
>> the computer and test the results immediately.
>>
>> These factors led to an extraordinary burst of experimentation. Most modern
>> programming languages, including C, began on DEC machines; a PDP-10 was the
>> centre of the MIT AI Lab, the room in which the term artificial
>> intelligence was invented. “PDP-10 computers dominated Arpanet, which was
>> the forerunner of Internet,” says Lars Brinkhoff. “Internet protocols were
>> prototyped on PDP-10s, PDP-11s and other computers. The GNU project was
>> inspired by the free sharing of software and information on the PDP-10.
>> Stephen Hawking’s artificial voice came from a DECtalk device, which came
>> from Dennis Klatt’s voice-synthesis research begun on a PDP-9.”
>>
>> PDPs were installed in university labs around the world, where they were
>> embraced by an emerging generation of engineers, scientists and coders –
>> the original computer hackers. Steve Wozniak got started with coding on a
>> PDP-8, a smaller, cheaper machine which sold in its thousands to hobbyists
>> – its operating system, OS/8, was the forefather of MS-DOS. Teenage
>> schoolkids Bill Gates and Paul Allen used to sneak into the University of
>> Washington to program PCP-10s. And it was on PDP computers that MIT student
>> Steve Russell and a group of friends designed the shoot-’em-up, SpaceWar!,
>> one of the first-ever video games to run on a computer...
>>
>> [...]
>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/06/reinventing-the-pdp-10
>>
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