[H-GEN] Retro-computing!

[Stuart Longland]

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Christopher Biggs wrote:
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| Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the
'Net and spake thusly:
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|>One of my latest projects is playing with the simh emulator,
|>particularly using it to play with a PDP-11, running Unix v7.
|>(The relevant files are available as the "simh" and "pdp11-unix-v7"
|>Debian packages.)
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| Unix v7, eh?      Ever used Minix?   Last I heard it was now free.
Yep, it's free alright, I've got it loaded on my 286 ;-)
It's a 70MB download AFAIK from
http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/minix/ or
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html

|>I'm just doing this for the hell of it, but I thought it would be
|>amusing to see what one of these beasts would have been like. (I
|>justify this to myself by thinking "this could go on my resume"
|>whenever I feel guilty for wasting the time.)
|>
|>However.  The disk image provided is just absolutely *tiny*.  10 megs
|>is a little skimpy, so I thought I'd like to have a few extra
|>"disks"
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| #include <rants/old_fart.h>
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| Jeez, I once had a *PC* with a 10MB hard drive.   (Admittedly, I only
| ever used it to hold the door open. :-)
|
| Sorry Jason, can't help with the device naming, those neurons got
recycled.

I'm doing better than you then, I've got a Timex/Sinclair 2068 with 72KB
RAM and *no* hard drive.  This baby runs of audio tapes and ROM
cartridges.  Still works, I haven't fired it up in months though. ;-)

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