Telnet access to classic mainframe/timesharing systems

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Michael Kerpan
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 9:51 AM

> I'd be interested to know what's out there vis a vis classic systems
> that are on the Internet offering public access. Currently, I know of
> twenex.org (emulated KL-10B DECSYSTEM-20 with Panda TOPS-20),
> pdpplanet.com (a TOAD-1 with TOPS-20, a DECSYSTEM-10 2065 and a VAX
> 780) and cray-cyber.org (an emulated CDC Cyber plus a rotating
> selection of historic super computers on weekends), but is there
> anything else? Is anybody running classic versions of UNIX (UCB-era
> BSD, AT&T-era System III/V, V6/V7, etc) Is anybody running a public
> IBM system? What about various lesser-known systems? Given that most
> people used these systems through remote terminals to begin with, a
> public access system would seem to be an ideal way to experience them,
> but how many of them are available in such a way?

Among our next projects at the PDPplanet site (which will be changing names
soon) are a PDP-8/e running either TSS/8 or MULTOS, and a PDP-11/45 running
Unix v7.  We will announce their availability here as well as other well-
known fora for vintage/classic computing.


Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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