[SCC_Active_Members] FYI: PDP Planet: Paul Allen's restored PDP-10s on the net

[Mike Cheponis]

How much money did the restoration require?  That would be interesting
to know.

Thanks, -Mike


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Paul McJones wrote:

> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:50:41 -0700
> From: Paul McJones <paul at mcjones.org>
> To: scc_active at computerhistory.org
> Subject: [SCC_Active_Members] FYI: PDP Planet: Paul Allen's restored PDP-10s
>     on the net
> 
> Via the Multicians mailing list:
>
> Message: 1
>   Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:42:33 -0400
>   From: Tom Van Vleck <thvv at multicians.org>
> Subject: PDP-10 on the net
>
> Rich Alderson has restored one of Paul Allen's PDP-10s
> to working order and put it on the Internet running TOPS-10.
> The website
>
>   http://www.pdpplanet.com/
>
> is an inspiration. It shows how the job should be done
> and documented.
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
>   Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:43:33 -0000
>   From: "Olin Sibert" <osibert at siliconkeep.com>
> Subject: Re: PDP-10 on the net
>
> --- In multicians at yahoogroups.com, Tom Van Vleck <thvv at m...> wrote:
>
>>> Rich Alderson has restored one of Paul Allen's PDP-10s
>>> to working order and put it on the Internet running TOPS-10.
>>> The website
>>>
>>>    http://www.pdpplanet.com/
>>>
>>> is an inspiration. It shows how the job should be done
>>> and documented.
>
>
> Indeed it is. Now if only we had one to restore, and a
> billionaire of our own to pay for the project.  The Museum's
> DPS-8 (formerly NSA's) has most of the essential parts, but
> disk drives would have be created somehow.
>
>
>
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