Rich Alderson: > From: Tedd Martin Vazquez > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 1:50 PM > >>>> Hi people¡ I've installed SIMH on my computer and I want to get >>>> around with the emulator for the pdp-10; it was a beautiful machine >>>> and the ancestor of the GNU project, so is quite charming. > >>>> I have no idea on how to begin using it. Is the first time in my >>>> life that I get in touch with something related to old computing. > >>>> I want to know where I can get software, TECO and adventure to mess >>>> around (because of the importance of both); and, very importantly, >>>> how to get this software running in the emulator. > >> Hi, I'm trying to install ITS using this tutorial: >> http://www.cosmic.com/u/mirian/its/itsbuild.html > >> Once I got it, how do I run the software inside the OS? Or I'm just >> not getting how it works? > > OK. If you followed those instructions, you *have* installed ITS.
After reading I believe using TOPS-20 I will have more to explore, and seems more easy to understand, specially to someone really new to this. > The minimal system created by following that set of instructions is just > enough to have something on which to install other software, such as > TECO. There is nothing there yet which is particularly useful to a > beginner on ITS. > > When I mentioned earlier that finding installation files for ITS was > more difficult now than it was 10 years ago, that's what I was talking > about. The old archives have been taken offline, have been offline for > years, and are unlikely ever to come back. There were a lot of files > containing personal data that was fine in the days of the ARPANET > (before the Internet came along), but which very few would care to have > brought to the light of day now. > > I don't want to rain on your parade. ITS is a lot of fun to hack at. > It just isn't easy to find anything to do on it any more. > > Rich Thank you very much for the information about TOPS, you really helped me, I will try to understand the basics and then I'll see using ITS. For everyone your answers really helped me, thank you very much. Tedd. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GC/CS/CM/CC/E/ED/FA/H/IT/LS/L/MC/M/MU/PA/P/S/SS/TW/AT d--(-)@ s: a? C++++>$ UBLC(++++)>$ P+>+$ L++++>$ E+++>$ W+++>$ N+ !o K+++++ w---() !O !M !V PS++(+++) PE+++ Y+(++) PGP+(++) t+(++) !5 X+(++) R tv+ b++++>$ DI++(+++) D+ G++ e* h* !r z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
