building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Jul 26 09:23:31 2001

> > As far as you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home...
> >
> > It's pretty true if you start with Simh26... PDP11, PDP8, PDP10.
>
> No, not an emulation, a real machine....
>
> Actually, round here, you probably couldn't run the emulator (and
> certainly not at any reasonable speed) on any of the machines I own. But
> if you dug about a bit, you might find enough parts to make at least a
> minicomputer from scratch...

Tony-

I'm running SIMH on a 233MHz Pentium-1 with rather good response. At
least, TOPS-10 seems as fast as it was at university loaded with
students...

Regards,
-doug q
 
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