PI 4D/35

[beermat]

sitting here on the floor, humming loudly (it doesn't know the words?) and blasting a something hooge CFM stream of cold air on my back (it's behind me, see) is the SGI Personal IRIS 4D/35 thing I acquired for meltie from a friend of Ashers (Ta Asher & Tim). Running IRIX 5.2. Now what?

:)

Comments

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[hazeii.livejournal.com]

Ehhh, CP/M boots happily on the Shades emulator (and on its intended replacement). In fact, the assembler/linker/debugger all run inside the emulator too..

At some point, I'll probably ask you for a URL for a GPL'd PDP11 emulator...

[beermat]

You'll be wanting to play with [SimH] and jolly nice it is too.

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[hazeii.livejournal.com]

SimH looks neat, ta for the link! One day soon...

[beermat]

And then you'll be needing an OS for it...

Unix on the web (v5,6,7), an old RT11 as well I
think.

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[hazeii.livejournal.com]

I have plenty of copies of RT-11, ta! Trouble is, they are on disks formatted for a disk controller I wrote the driver for...could involve lots of hackery to read them on a PC drive.

[beermat]

Ah, but are they Y2K compliant?
:)

I think Montagar made RT11 Y2K, they did RSX11M. will have to wander over to their website and looksee sometime...

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[hazeii.livejournal.com]

Who cares about Y2k, the whole point of using stuff like that is to live in the past!

[beermat]

It's Y2K39 we've got to watch for :)

If only one could turn a profit from working with this ancient computer gear. Hey, at least it's not got TCPA / Palladium in it, though the firmware et al is probably still covered retrospectivly by the DMCA...