Lars Brinkhoff

Jus sayin, @symbo1ics.bsky.social
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I know it isn't, but I harbor a secret fantasy that the BESM-6 was a Soviet clone of the PDP-6. It would have been a sweet alternative reality.

Marge Piercy's book Woman on the Edge of Time. Corner lifted to show "PDP-10" on page 221.

This book has an important message!

DEC introduced sixels first with the VT220, later with graphics terminals like the VT340. This was around 20 years after the LINC. Arguably sixels only became cool a few years ago when people rediscovered them and added support to terminal emulators.

Description of the LINC instruction DSC, display character. It draws 2x6 points.

The LINC had sixels before they were cool.

Spacewar running on a LINC emulator.

Spacewar on the LINC was early and small.

Leeloo, is that you?

#MIT AI memo 239 "HAKMEM" now comes with the original files from PDP-10 backup tapes.
dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721....

I wonder if the pie menu was put there by Don Hopkins? Probably.

Let me take this opportunity to express my admiration for your witty user name, g000001.

GitHub - MITDDC/eine-1975-1981: Source code and related files for the text editor EINE from 1975-1981 Source code and related files for the text editor EINE from 1975-1981 - MITDDC/eine-1975-1981

Code for EINE, the first Emacs clone, has appeared.
github.com/MITDDC/eine-...

[x] I'm ready for the ARPANET.

Project MAC, I assume.

A list of 39 timesharing systems that are available now for running on emulators. timereshared.com/os-list/

Cover of the book PiDP-10 "a mainframe in my living room" by Andrew Barron.

A new book about the PiDP-10, and what you can do with it. www.qsl.net/zl3dw/PiDP-1...

I gather in telecom, mainframe - or main distribution frame in full - is still in use meaning something like chassis.

What have you been working on?

It was a game engine for Space Travel.

It ought to be spelled K ERNI NG.

Feel the relief of not having systemd around.

It was Devin Monnens. He's also in touch with Len Berger, the original programmer, and will interview him soon.

I have opened a pull request for Open SIMH to add support for the display. The game code is also there, in the PDP8/test directory. github.com/open-simh/si...

A missile approaching a UFO.

The game runs on PDP-8 emulators now.

GitHub - PDP-5/ICBM: DECUS 5-277: ICBM (1970) - game by Len Berger DECUS 5-277: ICBM (1970) - game by Len Berger. Contribute to PDP-5/ICBM development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thanks for the offer! It turns out someone already transcribed it. I put it here: github.com/PDP-5/ICBM

Not quite. The IMLAC PDS-1 is a single-user minicomputer. A workstation predecessor before the term workstation was coined. (...or was it? I have seen it used with Englebart's NLS.)

A game for the PDP-5. Help me type it. svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/pd...

Hundreds of DECtapes being processed. icm.museum/blog/?p=241

Original CompuServe computer room, 1969. DEC PDP-10 (KA), MA-10 memory cabinets (16K 36 bit words each), RD-10 drum (for swapping), RP02 disk drives, oodles of DECtapes for offline customer storage.

Original CompuServe computer room, 1969. DEC PDP-10 (KA), MA-10 memory cabinets (16K 36 bit words each), RD-10 drum (for swapping), RP02 disk drives, oodles of DECtapes for offline customer storage.
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It was really due to Hans Hübner finding a set of floppies and imaging them.

ICM (@icm@mastodon.sdf.org) Attached: 1 video 1971 “freeway” game written at University of Washington for the IMLAC PDS-1 Did it inspire Frogger? #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Here it is running on a real IMLAC PDS-1D. mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/1147460...

The display code was written for the earliest "Alpha machine" model of the IMLAC PDS-1, for which no documentation or other code survives. Zachary Harper recently figured out how it works from reading the listing, and ported it to the standard "Graphics machine" model.