[geeks] Old DECsystem-10/20 hardware [from Apple software discussion]

[John Francini]

Hey cool.  Does it run?  If so which OS(es) do you run on it?  And 
can I visit it some time? (I see from your site that you're in New 
England, as am I.)

FYI -- your link on your main page to the DECsystem-1090 rescue seems 
to be dead.

j


At 21:52 -0400 10/13/07, Michael Thompson wrote:
>I have a KS10 running at home. 
>http://users.ids.net/~thompson/PDP10/KS10_4224_1S.jpg
>
>At 09:42 PM 10/13/2007, you wrote:
>>Indeed. TWONKY was a KS-10 that ran TOPS-20 V4.1.
>>
>>John
>>
>>>Your email machine belonged to DEC's Internal Software Services
>>>group, and was a model KL1090, Serial number 1122.
>>>The Retro-Computing Society in Providence has a KL10 1090.
>>>
>>>1122    TOPS-10 DEC ISWS (TWINKY) "TWONKY"      PK1/C2  KL1090
>>>
>>>Message: 2
>>>>My first "real" E-mail was when I started at Digital in 1983. We had
>>>>corporate-wide DECnet-based E-mail, and my address was TWINKY::FRANCINI.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, the computer was named TWINKY.
>>>>
>>>>Why?  Good question.
>>>>
>>>>Because, on DECsystem-10s and 20s, and (maybe still) on VMS, the SET
>>>>HOST command (DECnet equivalent to Telnet) also took the female form,
>>>>of SET HOSTESS.
>>>>
>>>>So.....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>there had to be a Hostess Twinky (singular), so that you could SET
>>>>HOSTESS TWINKY.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
>>>>
>>>>j
>>>
>>>
>>>Michael Thompson
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks
>>
>>--
>>John Francini, francini at mac.com
>>
>>"The journey is more important than the destination -- that's part of life.
>>If you only live for getting to the end, you're almost always disappointed."
>>                               -- Donald Knuth
>>
>
>
>Michael Thompson

-- 
John Francini, francini at mac.com

"The journey is more important than the destination -- that's part of life.
If you only live for getting to the end, you're almost always disappointed."
                               -- Donald Knuth