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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:05:11 -0800
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Kip Crosby, CHAC" <engine@CHAC.ORG>
Subject: CM> Re: Vintage computers
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At 00:52 4/4/97 -0400, you wrote:
>From: David Wise <david_wise@PHOENIX.COM> Subject: CM> 1620 (Operating vintage computers as a hobby)
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>Does anybody else have a vintage computer that they keep in running order? I'd love to get in touch with people, and compare notes.
Depends on how you define "vintage," and I can see this getting as tangled with computers as with cars :-) but in the Bay Area, the most popular Solid Iron might be some flavor of HP 3000. They're readily available, they don't break easily, they don't cost LOTS -- again, that's relative -- to run, they're well documented, and parts are scrounge-able. (Try Frank McConnell <fmc@rahul.net> for more about this.) Some people, fewer I think, occasionally boot up VAXen, and I know where there's a mint PDP-8/e that I'd like to feed some power to and at least see if it works....
Anybody know if Spacewar was ever ported to a PDP-8? -- 'cause that's the first thing I'd want to run.
__________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine@chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Kip Crosby, CHAC" <engine@CHAC.ORG>
Subject: CM> Re: Vintage computers
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
At 00:52 4/4/97 -0400, you wrote:
>From: David Wise <david_wise@PHOENIX.COM> Subject: CM> 1620 (Operating vintage computers as a hobby)
>
>Does anybody else have a vintage computer that they keep in running order? I'd love to get in touch with people, and compare notes.
Depends on how you define "vintage," and I can see this getting as tangled with computers as with cars :-) but in the Bay Area, the most popular Solid Iron might be some flavor of HP 3000. They're readily available, they don't break easily, they don't cost LOTS -- again, that's relative -- to run, they're well documented, and parts are scrounge-able. (Try Frank McConnell <fmc@rahul.net> for more about this.) Some people, fewer I think, occasionally boot up VAXen, and I know where there's a mint PDP-8/e that I'd like to feed some power to and at least see if it works....
Anybody know if Spacewar was ever ported to a PDP-8? -- 'cause that's the first thing I'd want to run.
__________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine@chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
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