For those of you who would like an account on an honest-to-God PDP10'ish system... -=-=- <snip> -=-=- Path: Supernews70!Supernews73!supernews.com!newsfeed2.uk.ibm.net!ibm.net!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!newsfeed.eerie.fr!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ix.netcom.com!news From: xkladmin(a)paulallen.com (XKLeTen Admin) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp8,alt.sys.pdp10,alt.sys.pdp11,comp.sys.dec Subject: XKL (PDP10) Site Announcement Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 02:55:47 GMT Organization: XKLeTen Lines: 51 Message-ID: &lt;34a85fd3.3481181(a)nntp.ix.netcom.com&gt; Reply-To: xkladmin(a)paulallen.com NNTP-Posting-Host: stl-wa16-15.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Dec 29 6:56:58 PM PST 1997 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Xref: Supernews70 alt.sys.pdp8:1899 alt.sys.pdp10:3974 alt.sys.pdp11:2924 comp.sys.dec:58635 Dear Fellow PDP-10 Enthusiast, Over the past 25 years, it's been challenging for all of us to find a place to run our PDP-10 software. At the same time, there hasn't been a library of PDP-10 software that is well taken care of, and made easily available to the interested public. I would like to offer a solution. I have invested in a TOAD-1 machine running the PDP-10 architecture, and would like to make its capabilities available. The TOAD is manufactured by XKL Systems Corporation, and is a completely new hardware implementation of Digital's 36-bit PDP-10 architecture, not an emulator running on another platform. This machine I've purchased will be a repository for PDP10 public domain software, including the collection of the DEC-10 and DEC-20 DECUS tapes. By making access accounts available to an initial limited group, we hope to learn of any issue areas with our new program. Through an account you can set up with us, you can access this library, and run programs you may not have seen for years. You may also submit your own programs for storage, and for use by fellow advocates. These programs may be submitted via FTP, email or 9-track tapes. Once you have an account established you could access XKLeTen via telnet. Anyone may download the libraries of software through anonymous FTP from XKLeTen.paulallen.com. The machine, named XKLeTen, is configured as follows: TOAD-1, 36-bit computing system TOPS-20 system software 32 MW memory board 4 mm DDS tape drive 9 track tape drive 8 gigabyte disk I encourage any of you who are interested to contact us to set up an account. To be considered for an account, please submit the following information to XKLadmin(a)paulallen.com: Full name Email address Interest or purpose in this project (short summary) Desired account name If you have any questions about XKLeTen, or how to execute the anonymous FTP, please contact us via the same email address. Bill Gates and I used PDP10s to develop much of Microsoft's early software. I hope many of you take advantage of this new opportunity to keep alive some of your old memories. Paul G. Allen -=-=- <snip> -=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, SysOp, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fido 1:343/272) kyrrin2 {at} wiz<ards> d[o]t n=e=t "...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them!..."