Subj : Re: Ancient BBS Programs
To   : paulie420
From : tenser
Date : Wed Jun 14 2023 01:59 am

On 12 Jun 2023 at 10:00p, paulie420 pondered and said...
 
 pa>  te>  pa> Where have you been playing with these softwares?
 pa>  te>  pa> I just hunted for the 'PDP-10 SAIL Goodbye Message' and came up 
 pa>  te> 
 pa>  te> I have.  I run both TOPS-20 on an emulated PDP-10 and
 pa>  te> Multics on an emulated DPS-8/M on my ham radio network;
 pa>  te> both are connected to AX.25 and IP networks.
 pa>  te> 
 pa>  te> A copy of the SAIL farewell message is at:
 pa>  te> http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/AIlab/SailFarewel
 pa>  te> 
 pa>  te> If one installs, say, the Panda distribution of TOPS-20
 pa>  te> on a KLH-10 and runs `bboard` it'll pop up.
 pa> 
 pa> Thanks for sharing - I was able to extract the text and save to my
 pa> /Documents. :P Happy days... I wish I had the hardware to see these
 pa> softwarez in action. W00t W00t!

If you want, you can probably run them on whatever
you've got available.  Both will run under emulation
(and indeed, that's how most people are running them
these days...for Multics in particular, there are no
extant machines capable of running it outside of
museums).

For TOPS-20, one can use the KLH-10 emulator and the
Panda distribution:
http://panda.trailing-edge.com/

One can also get a free account on one of the TOAD
systems at SDF or the LCM+L.
https://twenex.org
https://livingcomputers.org

For Multics, one can use the DPS-8/M emulator:
https://multicians.org/simulator.html

Multics accounts are also available, for
instance over at ban.ai:
https://github.com/BAN-AI-Multics

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