#computer #DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #PDP8 #vintage #SpaceWar

Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/I running Space War by David Gesswein at VCF East XVII

#computer #DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #PDP8 #vintage #SpaceWar

Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8/I running Space War by David Gesswein at VCF East XVII

Does anyone know a place on the net I could get a shell account on an old #DEC machine to play an old game called #Empire (I think). I played it as a kid on a #Rainbow and have never been able to find it as an adult. #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #ShellAccount #PDP11

We’ve come a long way in the last five decades!

This diagram discovered six years ago by @workergnome among his father’s old papers shows ARPAnet as it stood in May 1973

ARPAnet, named after the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA), was the precursor to the modern internet

But it is astonishing to think that it began with two computers linked together in California, and within a few years was a network of 42 multi-user computers across the US (including Hawaii, which had a satellite link to California)

Most of those computers were Digital Equipment Corporation’s PDP-series (Programmed Data Processor) minicomputers, though there were also several IBM S/360 and S/370 mainframes and a few others

The IMPs (Interface Message Processors) and TIPs (Terminal Interface Processors) were Honeywell DDP-516 and 316 minicomputers (essentially functioning as what we’d now call routers)

#ARPAnet #InternetHistory #mainframe #minicomputer #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #IBM #Honeywell

Rotational greetings, all. Here's an #introduction

I'm a #software #developer, one of the founders of The Apache Software Foundation #apache #asf #apachehttpd, ex-DECcie #DEC #digitalequipmentcorporation, ex-IBMer, ex-RedHatter, and passionate about treating people fairly and writing code. Just trying out Mastodon now that Twitter's biome (#digiome? #electrome?) has started getting musky.

Oh, and I'm also ND, have a very literal sense of humor, and joke about just about everything.