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Re:PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator by larsbrinkhoff on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:14AM (#36664743)
Besides ITS proper, there were many subsystems that were more or less tied to ITS, some of them with their own operating systems. Others like the TV and XGP had dedicated PDP-11 computers running special software.

Just to list a bunch: PDP-6, Logo PDP-11/45, Minsky's 2500, Imlac PDS-1, GT40, Robotics PDP-11/40.

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Re:PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator by DonHopkins on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:35PM (#36668810)
From the offices at Tech Square, you could also call the elevator your floor and buzz the elevator lobby door open from the comfort of your Lisp Machine, using the PDP 10/11 interface on AI.

You could just pound on the door and somebody would usually buzz you in without checking who it was, just to get some peace and quiet.

Lars, do you know anything about the wire wrapping robot that was on the 9th floor? Henry Minsky says he thinks either Holloway or Knight built it (Tom Knight would know), and they used it to make the CADR lisp machine boards. Those were huge freaking wire wrap planes, the size of a tabletop.

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Re:PDP-10 Incompatible Timesharing System emulator by larsbrinkhoff on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:03PM (#36669251)
The elevator and door hardware was in the TV-11. The IO pins are available in the emulator, but alas not connected to anything.

I have heard about the wire wrapping robot, but not who made it. The boards were made by Augat.

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