Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA24704 for pups-liszt; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 04:46:07 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from bsdserver.tek-star.net ([206.29.81.10]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA24699 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 04:46:01 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (dseagrav@localhost) by bsdserver.tek-star.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09165; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:35:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:35:02 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel A. Seagraves" To: Erin Corliss cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: PDP-11: Disk over Serial proposal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Erin Corliss wrote: > Ummm.... I'd just like to point out here that if I was intending to put > PDP-11 Unix to any meaningful use (which *would* be a terrible thing to > do to myself) I'd just run an emulator on one of my other computers. What > I'm looking for here is a project I can kill some of my weekends on. I > was thinking eventually I could wire the /usr/games/chess up to my web > page so people could "Play a game of chess with the PDP-11!", you know, as > kind of a freak show act.... Freak show? Actually, an emulator on a PC would be more of a freak show! I have come to the conclusion that PCs are freaks - REAL computers come in racks! The bigger the better, unless I can't store it... (Speaking of which: Anyone want an IBM S/34 in running condition with software? [Loads of 8" floppies])