A while ago I built a working PDP-11/70 scale replica...

A while ago I built a working PDP-11/70 scale replica from a fabulous kit that Oscar Vermeulen sells. It blinks away on my bookshelf now. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2021/10/09/building-a-pdp-11/70-kit/

Like 24 Dec 2023 at 18:36 | Open on mastodon.social

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@kjhealy this isn't a smartass question. Is 6:10 scale the same as 3:5?

24 Dec 2023 at 18:49 | Open on mas.to

@jumbanho no it's twice as big 😂

24 Dec 2023 at 18:54 | Open on mastodon.social

Yes, they are both 60%.

25 Dec 2023 at 0:45 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

@kjhealy I built a qbus 11/23 in the 1980s. Great computer!

24 Dec 2023 at 21:22 | Open on mastodon.social

@kjhealy
That is delightful and quite bonkers in pretty much equal parts.

(So, so tempted.)

24 Dec 2023 at 22:22 | Open on mastodon.social

@kjhealy where is the punch card reader?

25 Dec 2023 at 4:55 | Open on fosstodon.org

@HumanMapping @kjhealy
Sorry, the best I can do is a high-speed paper tape reader…

25 Dec 2023 at 11:45 | Open on mastodon.online