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A Turist's Guide to ITS
ITS was an operating system developed at the Artificial Intelligence lab at MIT, during the 1960s-80s. It is famous for many things and many people; you should read the wikipedia article for...
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Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates
Two years ago, the Gigatron arrived on the retrocomputing scene.It needs just 930 logic gates (packed into 33 standard 7400-series ICs) to create a computer that beat 'complex' 1980s home computers...
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Well worth a visit: Bonami computer museum (Holland)
And so, this week, the members of the Dutch CVML - Computer Collectors' Mailing List - had a post-Corona meeting. I think it was Roland who suggested that the Bonami computer museum in Zwolle would be...
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Vintage Computer Festival Zurich 2022 The VCF Zurich this year was as busy as it used to be before you-know-what. Well over 1,000 people visited.I used the event to have the (why not use big words)...
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The $2 Apple-1
Time to make my KIM Uno compatible with the Apple-1 as well as the KIM-1.There is something about old, minimal 6502 Single-Board Computers. Their early software was pure art. Small but beautiful,...
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Stack buffer overflow attack: 211BSD on the PDP-11
What to do with a PDP-11? Or, same thing, with a modern PiDP-11 replica?Well, if you lack any productive ideas, maybe hack your way into it. A PDP-11 is a (in fact, the original) networked unix...
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Insights from software archaeology: SHRDLU and AI
Whilst working on my PiDP-10 replica and the ITS operating system, I found that Lars had actually recovered the famous SHRDLU demo from the MIT AI Lab's archives.I knew about SHRDLU, having seen the...
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