[ih] Internet nostalgia

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

recommend checking out https://obsolescence.dev/index.html where a team is
working on PDP-1 and Whirlwind replicas (and as well as an
ARPANET reconstruction project that has come to a point where they can run
connections between multiple PDP-10s running the MIT ITS operating system
and where work is also underway to restore some PDP-11 NCPs)

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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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