8 Feb
2023
8 Feb
'23
7:45 p.m.
Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080
<https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
Zane
8 Feb
8 Feb
7:54 p.m.
"A new PDP-10 has been put in the INTERNET."
"New" as in newly-built? Or "new" as in wasn't there before?
The hardware looks modern, and not at all like what a PDP-10 should look
like.
Sellam
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:45 AM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080 <
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
Zane
8:11 p.m.
I would say it is newly built as the pcb substrate looks nothing like vintage stock. On
first glance it’s a impressive achievement reverse engineering the PDP10 cards and then
getting it online
Jake
On 8 Feb 2023, at 19:55, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
"A new PDP-10 has been put in the INTERNET."
"New" as in newly-built? Or "new" as in wasn't there before?
The hardware looks modern, and not at all like what a PDP-10 should look
like.
Sellam
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:45 AM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
>
> https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080 <
> https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
>
> Zane
>
9:20 p.m.
Jake Utley wrote:
Sellam Abraham
It's "new" as in "it wasn't there last week".
Well, it's also somewhat new since it was made in the 90s.
It's not a DEC PDP-10, but a clone by Systems Concepts.
"A new PDP-10 has been put in the
INTERNET."
"New" as in newly-built? Or "new" as in wasn't there before?
The hardware looks modern, and not at all like what a PDP-10 should look
like.
I would say it is newly built as the pcb substrate looks nothing like
vintage stock. On first glance it’s a impressive achievement reverse
engineering the PDP10 cards and then getting it online 
9:37 p.m.
On 2/8/23 11:45, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080
<https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
So it claims when you talk to it :) That makes it a 1993-ish machine.
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9 Feb
9 Feb
8:19 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, Zane Healy wrote:
Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080
<https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
Interesting, but not really a beauty ;-)
And BTW, who is SDF? They don't tell it on their site.
Christian
8:36 a.m.
Short story on the welcome page.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Corti via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 12:20 AM
To: Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Christian Corti <cc(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: SDF had put a PDP-10 on the Internet
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, Zane Healy wrote:
Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080
<https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
Interesting, but not really a beauty ;-) And BTW, who is SDF? They don't tell it on
their site.
Christian
8:55 a.m.
Mark Huffstutter via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> writes:
Christian Corti wrote:
Long story: https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030526-sdf
Interesting, but not really a beauty ;-) And BTW,
who is SDF? They
don't tell it on their site.
Short story on the welcome page. 
6:18 p.m.
Toad-2 is up as of 1015 PST 2/10...although the system clock is wrong.
lee@lee-Alienware-17-R5:~$ ssh twenex(a)sdf.org
Trying 172.16.36.36...
Connected to TWENEX.ORG.
Escape character is 'off'.
TWENEX.ORG XKL Toad-2 running TOPS-20, TOPS-20 Monitor 7(63327)-6
Welcome to the all new TWENEX.ORG running on an XKL Toad-2!
If NEW, login 'NEW NEW' ..
@login leec
Job 8 on TTY26 10-Feb-2023 6:00PM
Previous LOGIN: 10-Feb-2023 1:09AM
[Job 11(DET) also logged in under LEEC]
Checking the BBOARD ..
WELCOME TO TWENEX.ORG
Type 'HELP NEW-USER' for a command summary
Type 'HELP GAMES' for a list of games
Type 'TOPS20' for an interactive tutorial
[KANKAN] PUBLIC:<~>@ systat
Fri 10-Feb-2023 18:01:08 Up 3879:21:05
8+4 Jobs Load av 0.23 0.11 0.06
Job Line Program User Origin
6 25 EXEC NEW (172.16.36.30)
7 DET EXEC SMJ
8* 26 SYSTAT LEEC (172.16.36.30)
10 DET EXEC NEW
11 DET BBOARD LEEC
13 DET EXEC SM5POR
14 DET EXEC TAYLOR
15 DET EXEC MATT
2 2 TNASUT OPERATOR
3 3 NETSRV OPERATOR
4 4 EXEC OPERATOR
5 5 MAILST OPERATOR
[KANKAN] PUBLIC:<~>@ ^C
[KANKAN] PUBLIC:<~>@
Lee Courtney
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 2:52 AM Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Mark Huffstutter wrote:
--
Lee Courtney
+1-650-704-3934 cell
Short story on the welcome page.
There's no welcome page, sdf.org is down.
Christian
10:31 p.m.
Well, I don't know what to tell you. I am looking at the sdf.org page right now, and
When I click on the welcome tab at the top of the page I see the same message I did
When I posted the first email. Maybe it's a local problem.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Corti via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2023 2:52 AM
To: Mark Huffstutter via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Cc: Christian Corti <cc(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: SDF had put a PDP-10 on the Internet
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Mark Huffstutter wrote:
Short story on the welcome page.
There's no welcome page, sdf.org is down.
Christian
11 Feb
11 Feb
9:18 a.m.
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Mark Huffstutter wrote:
Well, I don't know what to tell you. I am looking
at the sdf.org page right now, and
When I click on the welcome tab at the top of the page I see the same message I did
When I posted the first email. Maybe it's a local problem.
Ok, the site seems to be up again. I got network timeouts yesterday.
But instead of constantly telling me to look myself, a member here could
just have written a couple of words to answer my question... Noone wants
to explain anything anymore, everyone is just pointing the world to google
and the internet.
Christian
3 p.m.
Ok let me answer that about sdf.org. I joined as a member last year. What I am saying
below is what I learned along the way. It is a nonprofit organization in Seattle that
started decades ago promoting Unix for the masses. I joined out of a curiosity and my
interests in anything classical computing just like this newsgroup. However, I still don’t
know who runs it or who responds to my questions over there. You get a basic Unix (bsd)
shell account that lets you chat with various other users within a chat application and a
bulletin board. There are a bunch of services that you can upgrade to and are cheap (the
site has a link to them). For each you send a donation to sdf PayPal account and they get
activated. I don’t know who activates them but it does get done quickly. Services vary and
include access to hosted MySQL/Postgresql, a vps instance, a Mastodon account, etc.
Nothing that one cannot do though self hosting or through commercial means. But with sdf,
they kept it very basic, nonprofit, educational, and oldschool.
They are not trying to sell you something and making profit. At least that is how I see
it. Even though I may not need sdf services, I managed to meet a community of common
enthusiasts in retro computing on its platform, including its volunteers’ running radio
station (aNonRadio), its Mastodon instance, and its old-school terminal-mode chats. I
would imagine any classiccmp reader would relate to sdf and vice versa. Don’t know if this
helps or just leads to more curiosity questions about sdf
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit
On Feb 11, 2023, at 1:18 AM, Christian Corti via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Mark Huffstutter wrote:
Well, I don't know what to tell you. I am
looking at the sdf.org page right now, and
When I click on the welcome tab at the top of the page I see the same message I did
When I posted the first email. Maybe it's a local problem.
Ok, the site seems to be up again. I got network timeouts yesterday.
But instead of constantly telling me to look myself, a member here could just have
written a couple of words to answer my question... Noone wants to explain anything
anymore, everyone is just pointing the world to google and the internet.
Christian
5:52 p.m.
Tarek Hoteit wrote:
I still don’t know who runs [SDF]
Stephen M. Jones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System#History
https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030526-sdf
https://ia600903.us.archive.org/22/items/bsdtalk021/bsdtalk021.mp3
7:16 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 9:53 AM Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Tarek Hoteit wrote:
If Stephen isn't still subscribed to this list, he used to be.
Sellam
I still don’t know who runs [SDF]
Stephen M. Jones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System#History
https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030526-sdf
https://ia600903.us.archive.org/22/items/bsdtalk021/bsdtalk021.mp3
12 Feb
12 Feb
12:01 a.m.
Well, all this talk about SDF piqued my interest.
Imagine my surprise when my first attempt to login connected me to
someone else's
account. :-)
Should be an interesting place to explore. Especially the Minecraft server.
I used to use the one at CHM but it went down when everything else did.
I haven't been back to see it it returned or, if it did, if all the old
data had
been preserved.
bill
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