[TUHS] Fwd: UNIX-7 boots on sn 129
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Oct 29 13:57:47 AEST 2019
That's awesome. I'll wager it is only the second PDP-7 to boot unix, and
the first PDP-7A. And maybe the 6th machine ever. Well done.
Warner
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 8:19 PM Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> All, I just received this from Stephen Jones at the LCM+L.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Stephen Jones <StephenJo at livingcomputers.org>
> -----
>
> Subject: UNIX-7 boots on sn 129
>
> Hello Folks .. you’ll hear through official channels along with videos
> and pictures (hopefully soon) that we just got PDP-7 UNICS to boot on
> a real PDP-7 (sn 129) using our newly designed “JK09” disk drive.
>
> The recent posting of source is going to be great .. we’ve been using
> the simh image that has been available for a while.
>
> BTW, compiling the B Hello World on a real 7 is much more satisfying
> than it is under simh …
>
> More to come, please watch Living Computers for updates.
> (PS sorry we’re late to the BTL party).
>
> Stephen M. Jones
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20191028/c14c5c78/attachment.html>
More information about the TUHS
mailing list