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|    Jeff Thiele to Stan Hosdar    |
|    Re: what's classic now?    |
|    26 Jun 21 19:23:06    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46       MSGID: 1:387/26 8e924d8e       REPLY: 1:229/426 07CED5B7       TZUTC: -0500       On 26 Jun 2021, Stan Hosdar said the following...         SH> so it's 2021..        SH>         SH> i dug up a IBM 365ED laptop, a modem, dialing up into this bulletin        SH> board that I discovered is a FIDONET hub.. and here I am        SH>         SH> while I think this is better in the DOS/WIN95 subs, but is this        SH> considered classic?              I don't feel comfortable commenting on that.               SH> I've been learning more and more about computer history, and im        SH> inrtigued how much CP/M (and DOS) have borrowed fro the PDP-11, my        SH> minicomputer eperience is next to nill with them having been largely        SH> abandoned in places where I could play with them...              This I feel comfortable commenting on. I love PDPs.              SIMH (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/) can emulate many old computers and       associated peripherals, just one of them being a PDP-11. You'll       need an OS, such as RSX-11       (http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/index.php?option=com_content&view=cat       egory&id=56&Itemid=324)       and probably some manuals (http://mim.update.uu.se/manuals/rsx/).              It can even run on a Raspberry Pi. And speaking of which,there's also the       PiDP-11, a miniature PDP-11 front panel that you can build around a Pi       (https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11). There's also a       PiDP-8, if you want to go back even further.              Good luck!              Jeff.              "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and       wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself       right.       --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: Cold War Computing BBS (1:387/26)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 18/200 19/25 33 38 50 30/0 80/1 90/1 103/705 105/81       SEEN-BY: 106/633 987 120/340 123/131 124/5014 5016 129/305 130/803       SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 1 6 226/30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017 240/1120 5832 249/1       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 261/38 280/464 5003 282/464 1038 288/100       SEEN-BY: 292/854 301/0 1 101 113 310/31 317/3 322/757 341/66 342/200       SEEN-BY: 387/25 26 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 920/1       SEEN-BY: 2452/250 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 387/26 396/45 280/464 301/1 229/426           |
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