that is What year is this? Mid-to-late 70s? I'm not up on IMSAI. Ashley

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Cool! Plus, this bizarre "Suoer IO" card -- IDE for S100! http://www.cpm80.com/superio.html $350 is a lot to drop for me on something that's not a main project, but I'll save it For The Future. I have occasional fantasies of putting my CP/M machine on the net, it wouldn't be a big deal, I've got a machine on a static IP at home (linux) and could cobble up serial to it, but THAT thrill would wear off in mere minutes. (Not that this machine is historically old and CP/M mutt machines aren't all that interesting except to their owners.)

is Is yours Magica, the PDP-11/70? How do I get to it? Is it always online? Ashley

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Ashley Carder wrote: Yes. You normally telnet to magica.update.uu.se. Unfortunately it is powered off at the moment, because we have a tight electricity budget imposed on us since about six months ago. It's still fully operational, and I just need to turn a key to have it online. We plan to have a substitute machine online for now, as Magica can't be on 24/7, but I have had trouble getting a sysadm to put a machine at my disposal with two ethernet interfaces (mostly a question of time). John Wilson have gratiously donated an E11 license for Magica' to run on. (Many thanks for that!) Johnny Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt(a)update.uu.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jules Richardson wrote: ... and here we enter a maze of little passages, all different (but the same :-) Casually, all and any of it seems interesting to me. Some machines, you can have 'an original experience' remotely, eg. early unix systems (especially if you were to use an ADM3 or ASR33). Others, like telnet-to-serial-to-CP/M-80, eh, it's interesting, but you don't get to hear drives honking and fan noise. It's better than nothing and all fun and interesting and maybe useful... ... and then as you more-or-less go back in time, all paradigms fail. A lot of machines don't have "consoles" in the sense of anything you can do wit hthe computer, you can abstract through a character interface. Hell, even a lot of serial-terminal (and especially mechanical tty) terminals use line-break (out-of-band signalling by generating a "bad" character). That CAN be simulated or emulated, but we begin the slippery slope... My LGP-21, for example, isn't possibly net-able, as you have to press switches to do things, and then we're in teleoperator land :-) The "console" is actually mechanics hard-wired into the CPU control logic directly. Good luck with remote character abstraction! It's not unusual for this era, say pre-1966. So again, viewable on the net is great, but it can't be used as a way to 'look into history' as a sort of progression (regression).