And the paper tapes can probably be read by stringing them out, taking a digital picture, and doing a bit of image processing. My two favorite machines were the HP 21MX and the PDP-11 both because of the twinkling lights. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
The lineprinter listings are still perfectly fine.
--ms
On 2014-10-08 12:25, Dave Dyer wrote:
The limiting factor for old-timers is most likely that it's now next to impossible to read those old backup tapes you have moldering in a closet. Mag tape drives are virtually extinct.
I was careful to migrate my bits to new formats from time to time, so I have access to archives of my programs from the 70's - not that any of them are actually useful today, except as nostalgia or archeological evidence.
I mess around with a simh based pdp-10, it's much faster than any PDP-10 that ever existed.
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