26 Jun
2013
26 Jun
'13
6:59 p.m.
On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:45 PM, ben wrote:
That... MAY have been a conscious business decision.
What happend to all the mainframes?
No one wanted them when they were just "old", so they were scrapped
for steel and copper. Same as all the other computers, except the
small sample that survived because people forgot they were sitting
in the attic (it's harder to forget there's a mainframe sitting
anywhere, and good luck getting it to the attic).
Those sorts of
things are _perfect_ for FPGA. For right now, though,
it's better to have a real Amiga or a real C64 or a real Apple II,
instead of an FPGA.
Ben.
To bad they did not make the PDP-11 as 18 bits rather than 16. PS. Do they still have the PDP 10 timesharing around?
Depending on your definition of "they", yes! Specifically, the
Living Computer Museum has both TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 running,
accessible from the internet. You can get an account today,
even! I'm really glad they're doing it. There may be others,
but they're hard to find.
- Dave