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  • I could never afford a Cyber supercomputer...

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Mon Mar 20 09:20:10 2023

    https://github.com/kej715/DtCyber

    DtCyber is a high fidelity simulator of Control Data 6000, 70, 170, and 700, series supercomputers.

    The first computer I used in college was a Cyber 170, I ran Pascal code on it, and later used an app called Primix that gave it a UNIX shell environment for classwork - because the school didn't have any UNIX systems back then!
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  • From tenser@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Mar 21 11:22:06 2023
    On 20 Mar 2023 at 09:20a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    https://github.com/kej715/DtCyber

    DtCyber is a high fidelity simulator of Control Data 6000, 70, 170, and 700, series supercomputers.

    It works pretty well, too! I've got NOS 2.8.7 running
    connected to my local ham radio network. It's kind of
    nifty to be able to call it over AX.25.

    The first computer I used in college was a Cyber 170, I ran Pascal code
    on it, and later used an app called Primix that gave it a UNIX shell environment for classwork - because the school didn't have any UNIX systems back then!

    We've lost a number of interesting and innovative
    systems, and we've lost the perspective that they
    brought. It's a real shame.

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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 3 13:04:18 2023
    https://github.com/kej715/DtCyber
    DtCyber is a high fidelity simulator of Control Data 6000, 70, 170, and 700, series supercomputers.

    This is way before my computing times, but it was interesting to see those early UNIXes and other terminal based OSes/technologies.

    Thanks for the link. I'm particularly interested in Plato now, which is shown as one of the examples in the nostalgic computing center that git hub refers too.

    Some wise elders on some podcast said, this was first MMO gaming platform for many students in 60s and 70s.. I wish I could understand more on some emulator how could that be.

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a copy.

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