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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.

ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org

Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.

#retrocomputing #unix #vintage

an old computer
#unix #retrocomputing #vintage

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penguin42
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penguin42
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Very nice! 'learn' doesn't seem too happy on it; it lists the entries but when you try and select a subject it says it hasn't got it.
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Lackfabrikant (EVduckR)
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Lackfabrikant (EVduckR)
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Would like to have a look, but my terminal is too old for ssh connections. It only can do simple telnet…
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Dan KB6NU
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Dan KB6NU
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@N0ZB I used to actually use one of these babies back in the 1980s. I even had one of the brown-on-brown ADM-3A termainals.
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Walter
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Walter
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Thanks a lot for this new computer experience. After several attempts I even achieved a new entry in the guestbook. 💪
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Comonda
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Comonda
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writing a guestbook entry on a pdp11 isn't something you can do every day.

Great idea 👌

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tob
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tob
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Haven't seen this baby in awhile!

I know where I'll be hanging out.
🆒 💻 🐷

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Michael Vilain
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Michael Vilain
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I'm not used to seeing an 11/70 w/o the old style black and red switches. That looks more like a baby DECsystem 2020.
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SDF.ORG
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@mvilain it is a repacked 11/70 marketed as the decdatasystem-570 in a double wide shorter boy cabinet.
@Michael Vilain
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Kernel Bob
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Kernel Bob
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@mvilain I'd never heard of this, and DuckDuckGo isn't telling me much. What markets did the DECDataSystem target?

(I used 11/70s early in my career, though. RSTS/E and 2.x BSD.)

@Michael Vilain
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skab
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skab
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Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.

Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!

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rickumali
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rickumali
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I spent a few minutes noodling around, reminding myself this was how computing used to be. Thank you for sharing this out!
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Andrew C. White
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Andrew C. White
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Used to run some mainframe printing off a PDP-11 back in the '80s. Trying to remember if that was used in conjunction with a Xerox laser printer or was something else. My memory is fuzzy about that.
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Malin
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Malin
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computer-generated puzzles. Oh brave new world.
ASCII maze.
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Malin
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Malin
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I give up - how do I get past this bloody snake?
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Malin
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Malin
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I never got it into the cage. Should not have eaten the food? Was that important?
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SDF.ORG
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SDF.ORG
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@malin drop the rod and put the bird in the cage. Don't eat the food.
@Malin
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Eric Furst
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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II
A Decwriter II printing the Mandelbrot set.

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