Computer Replica's

From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Mar 26 01:15:50 2004

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:42:23 -0000
"Andy Holt" <andyh_at_andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>
> > Lots of us have vaxen, lots of us have PDP's... but I'd venture few of us
> > will ever touch a 360 these days. So lets build the one we'll
> > probably never
> > get a real one of!
> >
> Multics (!) - or any of the GE600 famility (-> Honeywell 600 -> Honeywell
> 6000 -> Level 66/Level 68)
> or, for the truly nostalgic CS theorists, B5500 and successors
>
> Atlas - the origin of virtual memory (and, hey, it wouldn't be difficult to
> make more replicas than there were originals!)
>
>
The IBM 650, so we can follow in Knuth's path.

(my father programmed on the 650 back in about 1960)
Received on Fri Mar 26 2004 - 01:15:50 GMT

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