jim02672

You're assuming that a) a passphrase is acceptable to the system/app and b) that people can competently pick words for a passphrase.

That damn XKCD is overly simplified at best. I really wish people would stop linking to it.

Huh? You were connecting thicknet (10BASE5) directly to the back of workstations??

Great. Another article on old Linux distributions that's just the same crap as in all the others.

FYI the first picture, the one with the 0.12 boot & root floppies that is in every old Linux distro article, is the original distribution made by Linus Torvalds himself. Two releases later, 0.95a (3/17/1992), Jim Winstead started doing the root floppy. H.J. Lu's "bootable root disk" came shortly afterwards. (9/23/1992)

When you see an article with that picture labeled as H.J. Lu's boot/root floppies, just stop reading.

http://mirror.cs.msu.ru/oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/Linuxdoc... http://grumbeer.dyndns.org/ftp/mail/www.kclug.org/1992/sep/3...

FYI, hobbyist licenses expire after a year. You'll have to get new ones. Still free.

Typo fixed:

[2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390

I don't know if anyone cares, but at ~9:15 there is a PDP-7 shown. To the right Max Mathews is shown sitting in front of a display with I assume MUSIC IV on it. This would make that PDP-7 part of the Graphic II terminal made by Bill Ninke. It is this PDP-7 that Unix is later written for/on.

So I believe this specific PDP-7 (serial number 34? It was the only one shipped to Bell Labs with a display before 1969.) is what would later become the "Unix genesis machine". Unfortunately, I also think this is the only footage of it, at least online. Anyone care to correct me? Please.

Good! How about scanning in some of the still missing issues? ;)

There is also a torrent ( http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/7978965/ ) which has the ones at archive.org and more, with some replaced with higher quality scans. And ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/ has some that aren't in either the torrent or archive.org yet.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/167235-byte-magazine/ is where people doing the scanning are/were hanging out. Scanning seems to have kinda stalled recently. :(

z/VM, z/Linux (bare metal or under VM), z/VSE, z/OS, and I believe z/TPF. That's the newest stuff. It will also emulate 360's. I think the first thing I ever ran on Hercules was OS/360 MFT! Anyone can legally run VM/370 and MVS 3.8(?) and anything older. Oh ya, MTS, Music/SP, etc. too.