Like a kid with a new toy

[timwilky]

There was me trawling computer porn on t'internet and I stumbled upon SIMH.

A VAX emulator. Now I spent 15 years using VAX computers. Next think I knew, I had downloaded/installed the software. Bought a VMS (operating system) distribution for about £13 and another £53 for the license.


It will be good to try to remember what I used to do.

[DoubleD]

huh ??

[Luckypants]

Pah! VAX! PDP-11's was where it was at fella! :rolleyes:

VMS, now there's a blast from the past! If you remember any of it Tim, I'll be mighty impressed.

[timwilky]

The SIMH emulator stuff also provides a number of old processors
Data General Nova, Eclipse
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX
GRI Corporation GRI-909
IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, 7090/7094, System 3
Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems
Hewlett-Packard 2114, 2115, 2116, 2100, 21MX
Honeywell H316/H516
MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80
Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21
Scientific Data Systems SDS 940
I am also tempted to run a PDP-11 with either
RT-11 V5.3 (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/kits/rtv53swre.tar.Z) for the PDP-11 (under license provided by Mentec Corporation).
RSTS/E V7 distribution system (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/kits/rstsv7gen.tar.Z) and RSTS/E prebuilt system (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/kits/rstsv7swre.tar.Z) for the PDP-11 (under license provided by Mentec Corporation).

[SoulKiss]

Pah! VAX! PDP-11's was where it was at fella! :rolleyes:

VMS, now there's a blast from the past! If you remember any of it Tim, I'll be mighty impressed.

One of my ex-Bosses had a PDP-11 unser his stairs

Aparently he just left it there when he moved house :)

[Bluepete]

That's soooo far over my head, its just made orbit!

[timwilky]

Serious geekdom, for those of a certain age

[hovis]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-kitchen/shops/vax/vaxhistory._V20493825_.jpg

[timwilky]

Oi Hovis. you are such a Deputy Doofy

[wyrdness]

Pah! If VMS is so good, why doesn't anyone use it anymore? I used it for three years at college and couldn't stand it. I was much more of a Unix geek (still am, and typing this on a Unix system - OS X)

[northwind]

huh ??

It's like computers, but from before proper computers were invented :mrgreen:

[Luckypants]

Pah! If VMS is so good, why doesn't anyone use it anymore? I used it for three years at college and couldn't stand it. I was much more of a Unix geek (still am, and typing this on a Unix system - OS X)

Who said VMS was good? :rolleyes: This is nostalgia man :cool: IIRC VAX was cheap. UNIX was completely flaky in those days with very little in terms of applications. ICL was dying on their feet and IBM had nothing of any note in the small / midrange business computers, so VAX / VMS filled the gap.