Any word on the Multics revival front? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Mar 2016

I have front panels  for  Honeywell huge  black and  white   with tons of  
tiny switches and leds.

kind of like   these
http://www.glennsmuseum.com/components/pics/multics_panel_cu2.jpg

http://www.glennsmuseum.com/components/pics/multics_panel_cu1.jpg

some have more white areas   is from a   6000?  dps8? 8000?

I know   some of the large Honeywell machines  were   used for MULTICS  but 
trying to  figure what panels which  machines  it was  run on as an op sys. 

Guess I should know  more as   my computer business  was  2 miles  away 
...
 from the plant these were made in  in phx but  I was
too busy working on and   selling HP stuff..

I have  tried to  find a site that  had a definitive group  of the panels 
on it to use as an ID tool. Oddly  it  seems  we  have 2 of  each type and as 
I remember  there are  4 or 5 large  ones to a set? ( plus  some small 
ones)  

Drop me a  note! any  help appreciated  Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ 
(http://www.smecc.org)  . 

In a message dated 3/11/2016 10:11:43 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
charles.unix.pro at gmail.com writes:

On Fri,  Mar 11, 2016me at 9:02 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com>  wrote:

...

 On 3/11/2016 8:51 PM, Zane Healy  wrote:

> On Mar 11, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Kevin Monceaux  <Kevin at rawfeddogs.net> 
wrote:
...
 >>
>> OI hadn't  checked on Multics progress in quite a while.  Yesterday  I
>> discovered that the DPS-8/M emulator  at:
>>
>>      https://SourceForge.net/projects/dps8m/
>>
>> is far  enough along to boot Multics.  I thought some folks on this   list
...
 >> might be interested in it.
>>
>  What I?d like to know is if any copies of GCOS-8 exist in the  wild.
> That?s what I?d personally really like to boot on the  emulator.  I  used to
...
 > be able configure all the IOP?s, IOM?s,  CPU?s,
etc. from memory, power  them
...
   up, and boot 
GCOS-8.

 Zane
  The problem with GCOS  is that there isn't a history I know of that it was
 anything but  Honeywells property.  A lot of negotiation and persistence  on
...
  the  part of many folks went to getting it to where
the Multics code could
  be released.  And it was lucky to be saved @ MIT and the CHM with
  donations.

 I don't know of anyone with GCOS when it has been  mentioned over the
 history of the discussions about this  hardware.

 Many thanks to Harry and Charles for writing the  emulator, and to the
 others reviving the system.

 I  plan to have a 6180 panel at VCF West and an original 645 board from   the
...
  first Multics system for show and tell.

  thanks
 Jim

 I was tentatively planning to be at VCF  West with a Multics emulation,  and
as much real hardware as I can chase  down (I/O selectric OPCON, maybe a
tape drive, a line printer,  ?)

Maybe we can hook up a beaglebone to your 6180 panel?

--  Charles