Dave Wade G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
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From: cctalk-bounces at
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 10 August 2012 20:37
To: cctalk at
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Subject: Re: To all with interest in IBM 7090
I think simulation has its place. So for example
at MOSI there are a
It does...
number of ASR33 TTYs and a small mini computer
for which I think the
disk packs are missing. Now they are never going to get the
mini running
Why not? Is it impossible to write find the OS anywhere else?
Or to writ
at least soemthign that talks to the termianl ports?
Several reasons think:-
1. Lack of documentation
2. Money
3. The "Museum" things we have already mentioned.
4. General condition. There are many alloy parts which have corroded. I
don't think the system was taken appart with any care. More info on the
object can be found here, but these don't really reflect the current
condition of the objects:-
http://emu.msim.org.uk/htmlmn/collections/online/display.php?details=full&a…
n=12706&QueryPage=%2Fhtmlmn%2Fcollections%2Fonline%2Fsearch.php§ion=
http://emu.msim.org.uk/htmlmn/web/pages/common/imagedisplay_mosi.php?&i…
76&size=543x600
But I would like to try..
but I would
imagine the ASR33s are not beyond repair, they look
reasonably clean. So is it legitimate top connect these to
some kind of
A vvery clean ASR33 is not good. It may eman it's never seen
the business
end of an oil can...
They have oil in the proper places....
simulation
(Raspberry PI based perhaps) to give folks the
experience
of
using a TTY with auithentic old software?
Wait a second... If you have the 'authentic old software',
why can it not
be run on the mini?
Not sure if we have that for that particular mini. There is one disk
pack....
-tony
Dave Wade G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum