Subj : Hercules - Mainframes Emulator
To   : Miken
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Mon Apr 24 2017 23:24:00

Hi Miken!

24 Apr 2017 19:32, from Miken -> Richard Menedetter:

 RM>> PiDP8 - a PDP8 emulator on a raspberry Pi:
 RM>> KIM Uno - Kim1 emulator
 Mi> I just opened the web-page. And to be honest I doubt I've mental
 Mi> capacity to caointain such a machines.

I thought you were the guy who suggested the mainframe area?

If you cannot comprehend the above information (which is extremely well
prepared), what exactly do you want to do in the mainframe area?

 Mi> However it reminds me ... aren't something like these the famous
 Mi> machines that brought Mr. Gates & company from the dark scene to the
 Mi> bright of Wall St.?

No.
The DEC PDP was too expensive for playing around for home consumers.
The KIM1 basically a demo board from MOS to showcase their 6502 CPU received a
backport of M$ basic later.

Allen and Gates started on the MITS Altair if I remember correctly.

Something like this:
http://altairclone.com/

CU, Ricsi

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