Beginning of the 70's I was using a pdp-10 at TSL (Time Sharing Limited, UK) over a phone line writing logic simulation software in Fortran. Remember it fondly, especially the number of times I needed to redial in and try to reconnect to my session. Still smell the teletype. Cost about £10 for the 20 seconds cpu-time or so just to compile the program!!!
Roll on a few years and I was actually at the console of a 10 at Smiths doing IC layout graphics interactively on their Lady Jane suite. What a great single-user machine! (and I still remember my username and password from TSL, typed it so often it burned in). Bob > -----Original Message----- > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:42:42 +0100 > From: "Rob Jarratt" <[email protected]> > To: "'Dave Wade'" <[email protected]>, "'General Discussion: > On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <[email protected]>, "'Kip > Koon'" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?. > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Ah the PDP10! Although the very first computer I used was a PDP11, it > was so briefly that I really consider the PDP10 (in DECSYSTEM-20 form) > to be my first computer. It is easy to emulate in SIMH, although the > SIMH emulation is of a less capable processor (KS10) and I think KLH10 > is the best emulator for that (but I have never used it). > ... > > Rob
