[rescue] DEC PDP10 Status Update

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Sun Nov 10 22:16:29 CST 2002


"Michael Thompson" <m_thompson at ids.net> writes ...

> For the last few months I have been struggling with a DEC PDP10 KS10 2020
> system that hasn't been run in a decade. I will spare you the details, but
> it just booted TOPS10 from a RP06 disk. It's probably the only PDP10
running.
>
> Picture: http://users.ids.net/~thompson/PDP10/KS10_4224.jpg
>
> Required Sun content: That's a Sun 2/120, 2/50, and 3/60 at the far right
> of the picture.

That's super!

I was a CompuServe Sysop from 1985 to 1999, and for most of that time the
Forums I ran were on PDP10s or clones.  We didn't get a lot of OS access,
and the OS CompuServe ran was not stock TOPS10, but it was enough to get the
flavor.

That's a very worthy rescue.

-Shel



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