Lars Brinkhoff

@larsbrinkhoff.bsky.social

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Messages from an alternative universe where the PDP-10 is alive and well.

Marge Piercy's book Woman on the Edge of Time. Corner lifted to show "PDP-10" on page 221.
Description of the LINC instruction DSC, display character. It draws 2x6 points.
Spacewar running on a LINC emulator.
Cover of the book PiDP-10 "a mainframe in my living room" by Andrew Barron.
A missile approaching a UFO.
Original CompuServe computer room, 1969. DEC PDP-10 (KA), MA-10 memory cabinets (16K 36 bit words each), RD-10 drum (for swapping), RP02 disk drives, oodles of DECtapes for offline customer storage.
Professor Farnsworth saying GoodNeWS everyone!
Floppy disk with UniPress Emacs V2.20.
Power "ON" for PDP-10. Maynard, Mass. 9 March 1967
Cray and Symbolics were the real dinosaurs of Jurassic Park.
Computer monitor displaying a fake ARPANET login. From Person of Interest S03E12.
So here is Chapter 5 - Lights and Buttons. Many TX-2 users have asked for this chapter. Now that it is out, I hope it teaches them a lesson.
Snippet from TX-2 Users Handbooks. "Chapter 1 and 2 - Who knows?"
State diagram for the ARPANET Initial Connection Protocol.
ARPANET logical map from September 1977, with all CDC hosts highlighted.
Navi with Christmas hat.
Handwritten note with a network diagram. Caption below says "THE ARPA NETWORK" "DEC 1969" "4 NODES"
Handwritten note with network diagram. There's one node "#6 MIT" with one host "PDP10". Caption below says "THE ARPA NETWORK 2.0" "DEC 2024" "1 NODE"
One astronaut in space saying "Wait it's all PDP-10?" Another astronaut pointing a gun at the first, saying "Always has been".
MIT-MC, a DECsystem-1080 at MIT running the ITS operating system. In the background is the front panel. In the foreground is a DECwriter and a VT52. They are surrounded by tall blue core memory cabinets.
PDP-6
Label on the VT100 keyboard, with help text for the configuration parameter. Part number 3615741-00.
Photo of people using text terminals. Caption: Hackers are often considered social rejects. From "Getting hooked on hacking", the The Financial Post, 31st of October, 1981.
A VAX computer being accelerated by a trebuchet.
Small girl - no longer sad - amazed by an IBM 370 console.
Distraught hacker wearing a GigaMos t-shirt.
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Red label with the text: MASS. INST. OF TECH DEACTIVATED PROPERTY OFFICE
One VT100, and three scale models: 2:3, 1:3, and 1:10.
To the left, a Knight TV with the text "IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR PDP-10". To the right, a girl with her finger on the KA10 power switch, and saying "OK!"