The December 2024 newsletter from Obsolescence Guaranteed covers updates on new projects such as PiDP-10 and PiDP-1, news about existing projects like PiDP-8 and PiDP-11, and upcoming plans for 2025 including a PiDP-1 replica and an annual programming competition.
A look at the social aspects of the Incompatible Timesharing (ITS) operating system, focusing on its lack of security and how that facilitated collaboration and a sense of community among users. The author argues that ITS was a forerunner to modern social media.
The PiDP-10 is a modern reproduction of the PDP-10, powered by a Raspberry Pi and featuring a front panel with tons of LEDs and switches. It's designed for those who want to experience the computing power of the 1960s, but with a modern twist.
CEDS is a retrocomputing micro-factory, producing and shipping PiDP-10 replica kits. They also offer assembled PiDP-11 units, with the option of selecting assembled or unassembled kits in the order form. For placing an order, fill in the required information and submit the order form.
A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966.
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This article discusses the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab's 'Tourist Policy' and how it impacted students' access to its resources. As a high school student in Maryland, the author shares their experience of using the lab's PDP-10s over the ARPANET and how it inspired them to learn and contribute to the MIT community.
- Discussion about a dedicated timesharing system called SITS (Small Incompatible Timesharing System) used for running Logo and other PDP11/45 programs.
- Mentions of various software and tools such as DDT, Salv, Tinté editor, LISP11, Macro assembler, Link linker, Spacewar, etc.
- Discussion about the General Turtle 2500 standalone Logo machine and its possible use of SITS.
- Mention of a special Logo keyboard similar to Knight or Space-cadet keyboards that may have been used with raster displays.
- Comments on running SITS' Salv to initialize an empty disk, reading files from paper tape using RUG, and starting the system sphere
- Mentions of various software and tools such as DDT, Salv, Tinté editor, LISP11, Macro assembler, Link linker, Spacewar, etc.
- Discussion about the General Turtle 2500 standalone Logo machine and its possible use of SITS.
- Mention of a special Logo keyboard similar to Knight or Space-cadet keyboards that may have been used with raster displays.
- Comments on running SITS' Salv to initialize an empty disk, reading files from paper tape using RUG, and starting the system sphere
