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-=> Stan Hosdar wrote to All <=-

 SH> i dug up a IBM 365ED laptop, a modem, dialing up into this bulletin
 SH> board that I discovered is a FIDONET hub.. and here I am

 SH> while I think this is better in the DOS/WIN95 subs, but is this
 SH> considered classic?


Works for me - congrats on the Thinkpad find, I love those old laptops.


 SH> I've been learning more and more about computer history, and im
 SH> inrtigued how much CP/M (and DOS) have borrowed fro the PDP-11, my
 SH> minicomputer eperience is next to nill with them having been largely
 SH> abandoned in places where I could play with them...

Have you seen the 3d-printed PDP faceplate driven by a Raspberry Pi? Looks 
like you could get your PDP fix without having to run old iron.

One of my first computer science classes was assembler on a PDP, I'm tempted 
to fire up an emulator and type in my old programs.

 SH> (save for a VT-100 terminal or an old teletype / printer that we used
 SH> in CS class)

I lament the loss of Weirdstuff Warehouse - it was a store that, back in the 
'90s to 2010 or so was a treasure trove of old hardware. Stacks of Sun Pizza 
box systems, old HP Apollo and DEC Alpha systems, old rackmount servers, and 
you could usually find a serial terminal or two lurking in the back, most 
likely a Wyse 50.


... Consider different fading systems
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