"Paul Kraabel" <kraabel(a)kraabel.com> wrote:
I have a IBM System 360 control panel complete with
the 360 metal bar that
goes above the panel.
I wrote in private email to Paul that it would be really awesome to write
a 360 simulator for a single-board computer and stick it in/behind the panel,
so that it really works as originally intended. Of course, you have to get
a 3270 terminal to connect to it. :-)
A friend has the PDP-11/40 front end out of a DECsystem-1090. It's an
ordinary 11/40 except for the colors of the silkscreen and switches, and
that the legend says "KL10" instead of "PDP-11/40". We've been
talking about
building a Unibus board to go inside it with a RISC processor (perhaps an
Alpha) running a KL10 simulator, so that this size-reduced DECsystem-10
would be fully functional. Not quite as nice as preserving the whole
machine, but in this particular case it actually wasn't a whole machine in
the first place.