Does this mean I might eventually run PLATO on a simh-emulated CYBER system?
Now, if I could just remember how to play 'Airfight'... :-)
-- Tony
At 03:24 PM 5/31/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> > I'm gathering the resources necessary to build an emulator
> > for the CDC 6000 Series, Cyber 70 Series, and Cyber 170
> > Series mainframes. I'll be pulling together existing
> > works-in-progress and using Bob Supnik's SIMH as a framework.
>
> > The fruits of this labor will be freely available to any
> > and all, as with the DEC emulators. As to the CDC-owned
> > software, efforts are underway which are hoped will lead
> > to a hobbyist license, a la DEC's.
>
> > I have a good start on the manuals I need (kept some from
> > years ago, will acquire others). Additionally, I've sent
> > two of my four old CDC 9-track tapes to be read and placed
> > on CD-ROM as images.
>
> > If any of you (whom I have not already been in contact with)
> > have any printed source listings, coredumps, or best of all,
> > 9- or 7-track tapes containing operating systems (the CDCs
> > used a deadstart tape and a system library tape), would you
> > be willing to have the tapes imaged-to-disk, and make the
> > images available to this project?
>
>You should eventualy talk to John Zabolitzky (He is off list
>at the moment) at Jgzabol_at_aol.com - If there is something
>to know about Cyber mainframes, he does.
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
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Received on Thu May 31 2001 - 08:42:02 BST