[ih] Internet nostalgia
Jack Haverty
jack at 3kitty.org
Tue Apr 22 09:38:13 PDT 2025
With all the nostalgia floating around, I thought someone might be
interested in some historical re-enactment...here's some tools which
might help.
It is now possible to have your own PDP-11, PDP-10, or PDP-8, if only to
play with the console switches. All powered by a Raspberry Pi running
a simulator of your favorite old computer, with a real but replica
computer console.
See https://www.ceds.dev/pidp-11 or https://www.ceds.dev/pidp-8 or
https://www.ceds.dev/pidp-10
You can also resurrect old software on it, as the ITS-Hackers have done
with the PDP-10. See https://github.com/PDP-10/its
Perhaps someday we'll have an Internet Museum, with the technology of
the 1970s/80s running again, on modern hardware but using the old
historic code, protocols, and formats.
You might even debug that final problem you still remember but never
fixed....
Jack Haverty
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