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   Message 950 of 1,530   
   Jeff Thiele to Stan Hosdar   
   Re: what's classic now?   
   26 Jun 21 19:23:06   
   
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   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.   
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