Michael Thompson

Vintage computer enthusiast.
Restorer and docent at the RI Computer Museum.
Restorer and docent at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum.

[Michael Thompson @Michael26413485]

@sdf_pubnix It looks like you have room for a large configuration KL10.

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@sdf_pubnix The first chatbot.

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@deccomputers My 3540 needs those cables plus a few more.

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@sdf_pubnix The RICM has a similar IBM punch, and needs to make the same kind of demonstration.

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@matseng I have the same terminal but with a PDP-8 CPU board sandwiched below these two PCBs.

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@cqcqcqdx Its actually an HP 2100.

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@rossiadam I helped build the prototype of the cabinet for that model Sun Fire.

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@sdf_pubnix Got UNIX?

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@sdf_pubnix How much power will the complete system need?

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@sdf_pubnix ITS or TENEX?

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@sdf_pubnix That would be a really fun project to get working.

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@sdf_pubnix Did you run UNIX?

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@sdf_pubnix You got the emulated disk drive from LCM?

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@sdf_pubnix I have memory and CPU boards for the 3/1xx if you need them.

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@larsbrinkhoff 8k x 18-bits of core.

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I just got the DEC PDP-9 at the Rhode Island Computer Museum to boot the ADSS monitor and run a "Hello World" program again. That again makes it the only running PDP-9. There are no integrated circuits in the PDP-9, just lots of transistors.

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@sdf_pubnix Then the memory chassis, data channels, disk controller, disk drives, magnetic tape controller, magnetic tape drives, communications controller, printer controller, and card reader controller. You will be inventorying cards for quite a while.

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@sdf_pubnix Large System Modules. I am not sure which system they came from. I bought them on eBay a few years ago.