27 Jan
2004
27 Jan
'04
12:38 a.m.
interesting thing we had on the access system two things actually... one was
a bbs with 100 message boards, mail system and vote and a multi user chat
that worked through writing and reading a disc file......
the other was a giant space war game that had the universe held in a
matrix in a disc file.... before I got lock feet for the 2883 we would have
to come in a kick it back into place after the local kids spent all nite
playing the game.... I wonder if my old tapes will still load.. guess I am
looking for a tape drive that will hook to a pc with controller ready to go
turnkey... any suggestions?
ed sharpe archivist for smecc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Gemeny" <MGemeny(a)pgcps.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: HP2000/Access - (hpemu clarification)
two
Jay wrote:
>To my knowledge the only way SIMH might do this is if you ran multiple
>copies of SIMH, perhaps in separate windows. And even then, not sure it
>would let you cross connect cables between the systems. But I may be
wrong
about this.
Yep, that?s the way the Access Zip launches SIMH to run Access or ?F?. The occurrences of SIMH are connected with a pair of
sockets.
Sure, we know it?s inefficient. But just now, it?s the only way to run ?F?
or
Access,
without real hardware, and, they both do run under
simulation, IOP and
all!
I had a guest come over this past weekend with a set of tapes and we were
able
to read and reload his tapes into a running
simulation. All in all, we
spent 9 hours
at it, and 2 of those were spent breaking into his
system.
What we ended up doing was to ?RESTORE? a $HELLO from some other HIBE
tape in order to get past his ridiculously tight security. We had a blast
banging
our heads together on it, but I want to let him tell
that story.
The bottom line is that Access IS ALIVE under simulation!!!!
It only gets better from here? Take the ZIP for a spin!
Mike.