Forbes followup

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Feb 21 03:31:10 1999

"Paul Kraabel" <kraabel_at_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.
Received on Sun Feb 21 1999 - 03:31:10 GMT

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