Telnet access to classic mainframe/timesharing systems

[CSquared]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: Telnet access to classic mainframe/timesharing systems


> A little surprised that people don't seem to know this, since it's been 
> online for about fifteen years now (and I have made public announcements 
> now and then all the time)...
> Update, in Sweden, have a PDP-11/70, which runs RSX, and have guest 
> access. The machine is Magica.Update.UU.SE.
> Because a budget limit, along with a problematic cooling system a few 
> years ago, we've had to restrict how much we can have that machine 
> running, so we migrated all accounts to an emulated PDP-11/74 instead, 
> called Mim.Update.UU.SE.
>
> So, just telnet to Mim.Update.UU.SE, and login with guest/guest, and you 
> can play with RSX.
>
> Oh, and yes, Magica is still around as well. It just takes a turn of the 
> key to get it online.
>
> Johnny
>
> -- 
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>

Thanks for that.  I know nothing about RSX, but I stayed long enough to 
achieve a new high score in Mad Bomber and execute a 1-line Basic program. 
:)
Later,
Charlie Carothers
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