Subj : Re: what's classic now?
To   : Stan Hosdar
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sat Jun 26 2021 07:23 pm

On 26 Jun 2021, Stan Hosdar said the following... 
 SH> so it's 2021..
 SH> 
 SH> i dug up a IBM 365ED laptop, a modem, dialing up into this bulletin
 SH> board that I discovered is a FIDONET hub.. and here I am
 SH> 
 SH> while I think this is better in the DOS/WIN95 subs, but is this
 SH> considered classic?

I don't feel comfortable commenting on that.

 SH> I've been learning more and more about computer history, and im
 SH> inrtigued how much CP/M (and DOS) have borrowed fro the PDP-11, my
 SH> minicomputer eperience is next to nill with them having been largely
 SH> abandoned in places where I could play with them...

This I feel comfortable commenting on. I love PDPs.

SIMH (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/) can emulate many old computers and
associated peripherals, just one of them being a PDP-11. You'll
need an OS, such as RSX-11
(http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/index.php?option=com_content&view=cat
egory&id=56&Itemid=324)
and probably some manuals (http://mim.update.uu.se/manuals/rsx/).

It can even run on a Raspberry Pi. And speaking of which,there's also the
PiDP-11, a miniature PDP-11 front panel that you can build around a Pi
(https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11). There's also a
PiDP-8, if you want to go back even further.

Good luck!

Jeff.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself
right.
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