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Shared recollections at the Interim Computer Museum

We offer a number of interactive recollections you may wish to experience. These historic operating systems and programming environments are managed for us by the SDF Public Access UNIX System and range from vintage hardware, hybrid hardware / emulation and simulated systems.

To access these systems, please ssh to 'menu@sdf.org' or visit https://connect.sdf.org and login as 'menu'. In addition:


Currently offered remote systems include:
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[a] multics             Multics MR12.8          Honeywell 6180
[b] toad-2              TOPS-20 7(110131)-1     XKL TOAD-2
[c] twenex              TOPS-20 7(63327)-6      XKL TOAD-2
[d] sc40                TOPS-20 MARS 7(21733)   SC Group SC40
[e] sc40                TOPS-10 MARS 7.05       SC Group SC40
[f] lc                  ITS ver 1648            PDP-10 KS10
[g] ka1050              TOPS-10 6.03a           sim KA10 1050
[h] kl2065              TOPS-10 7.04            sim KL10 2065
[i] rosenkrantz         OpenVMS 7.3             VAX 4000-96
[j] tss8                TSS/8                   PDP-8/e
[k] ibm4361             VM/SP5                  Hercules 4361
[l] ibm7094             CTSS                    i7094
[m] cdc6500             NOS 1.3                 DTCyber CDC-6500
[n] sigma9              Honeywell CP-V          sim XDS
[z] bitzone             NetBSD BBS              AMD64
[a] misspiggy           UNIX v7                 PDP-11/70
[c] lcm3b2              UNIX SVR3.2.3           AT&T 3B2/1000-70
[d] guildenstern        BSD 4.3                 simh MicroVAX 3900
[e] snake               BSD 2.11                PDP-11/84
[f] hkypux              HP/UX 10.20             HP9000/715
[g] truly               TRU64 5.0               DEC Alpha 200/166
[h] three               SunOS 4.1.1             Sun-3/160
[i] indy                IRIX 6.5                SGI Indy R5000
[j] ultra               Ultrix 4.5              simh MicroVAX 3900
[k] m-net               FreeBSD 14.2            x86_64
[l] nostromo            DG/UX R4.11             AViiON m88k
      

UNIX 50!

Experience a number of historical UNIX machines from 1969-1989

TimeSharing System 8

Challenge yourself and learn the PDP-8

SDF Public Access TWENEX TOPS-20

A great improvement over its successors (MRC)

Incompatible TimeSharing System

Developed at the MIT AI lab

Help and user contributed tutorials can be found at https://wiki.sdf.org. Our community mailing list is museum-l@sdf.org which can be subscribed to by sending 'subscribe museum-l' in an email to majordomo@sdf.org.

For pictures and stories concerning the restoration and maintenance of these systems, please check out our BLOG.