14 Dec
2000
14 Dec
'00
12:51 p.m.
"IBM used to send out its salesmen with little
1/24
models of their Mainframe installations to do site
planning on the desktop first before bringing in the
actual HW. With Moore's Law and the progress of
miniaturization, you could Build a system that big
now that actually works."
Only with more power.
Imagine putting together a little model of, say, the
PDP-10 system on the back cover of one of the PDP-10
reference manuals, but build an imbedded x86 machine
into the model, with one serial line... run linux on
the the embedded machine and Timothy Stark's pdp-10
emulator running TOPS-10...
:-)
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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15 Dec
15 Dec
4:21 a.m.
"IBM used
to send out its salesmen with little 1/24
models of their Mainframe installations to do site
planning on the desktop first before bringing in the
actual HW. With Moore's Law and the progress of
miniaturization, you could Build a system that big
now that actually works."
Only with more power.
Imagine putting together a little model of, say, the
PDP-10 system on the back cover of one of the PDP-10
reference manuals, but build an imbedded x86 machine
into the model, with one serial line... run linux on
the the embedded machine and Timothy Stark's pdp-10
emulator running TOPS-10... 
5:04 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
My wife messes around with doll houses now and then.
Several times I've wondered if I could build a fully
functioning miniature IMSAI, just front panel
programmable.
Or you can build a dollhouse controlled by an IMSAI:
http://www.vintage.org/exhibit99.html
(scroll down to the 11th set of pictures :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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8:44 a.m.
"Bill Sudbrink" <bills(a)adrenaline.com> wrote:
Several times I've wondered if I could build a
fully
functioning miniature IMSAI, just front panel
programmable.
Well, yes, that would be pretty neat. But the real coup would be
a fully functioning miniature ASR-33. Heck, I'd settle for a KSR-33.
:-)
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