Subj : Re: Hercules - Mainframes Emulator
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Miken
Date : Mon Apr 24 2017 22:40:00

Hello Richard,

 RM> I thought you were the guy who suggested the mainframe area?
 RM> 
 RM> If you cannot comprehend the above information (which is extremely well
 RM> prepared), what exactly do you want to do in the mainframe area?

please don't get me wrong. The reason for my "rejectal" is just simple. When
the machine doesn't have a keyboard (and I hope I'm not wrong) it's just out
of my generation. I grew up on ZX, school years on PC until now. All this
machines have one thing in common. It has a keyboard and a command line where
to type in.

Please correct me if I'm wrong... but PDP is programmed by switches. That
means there is not any possibility to type in any semantically more complex
sentences. It's not that I wouldn't be able to comprehend in a bunch of time
on how to handle it. But it's too far away from my understanding of the
World. And I'm sorry for it. My nature is more language orientated than
mathematical. I'm trying to "talk" to machines. And it's not really a natural
thing to talk in ASM. Whatever I hope I didn't insult You or so.

That's why I wanted to explore some of the Mainframes. I don't think the
really real Room computers that used punch cards. I'm interesting in machines
that are stable and runs ... and provides at least in some form a command
line.

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

I think You know the story much better than I do. The story-line I know is
blur and Holywood version. Again sorry for any uncertainty that my version I
know has. Although I should know it was Altair.

Best regards

Miken

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