Telnet access to classic mainframe/timesharing systems

[John Floren]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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

And don't forget ITS (http://up.update.uu.se/) for all you lusers out there.

John
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