Thank you so much to those who have signed up to support the SDF Computer Museum with a BOOTSTRAP membership. We still have gift items available to those who join and if you've not gotten yours it is going out in tomorrow mail. Looking forward to our announcement and events in late June and July!
Thank you to those who have joined the SDF Computer BOOTSTRAP membership. We still have welcome packs available to those who wish to support us and join. More of this shipping out this week. Your support helps with our remote systems and boot camps
Thank you to our 99 BOOTSTRAP members! Thanks to your generous support we can now announce a second Systems Concepts SC40 PDP-10 running TOPS-10 which will be open to accounts very soon.
If you would like to support our efforts in running vintage systems online, please consider joining at
The DEC PDP-12 was introduced in 1970s has a LINC and PDP-8/i processor. The LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer) handled I/O controlling relays, reading multi-turn knobs and jacks while also having special instructions to make use of the 12" point display. While the PDP-12 used TU-55 "dectape" drives, they were effectively LINC tape format and mounted oppositely.
We now have 21 TURISTs signed up for the SDF Incompatible Timesharing System Boot Camp which begins October 27th with a live stream orientation Sunday October 29th at 11:30 PT.
Announcing the SDF Incompatible Timesharing System Boot Camp! Interested in learning about ITS in a friendly community environment? Registration is open at https://hactrn.org with the orientation beginning 29-OCT-2023 @ 11:30 Pacific Time.
The SDF Computer Museum still has a number of gift packages for those who join our BOOTSTRAP membership. Your support goes directly to run our PDP-10s and other vintage systems as well as the Interim Computer Festival which will be held in March of 2024.
A listing for aNONbbs circa 1996 has been found. aNONbbs was a 972 BBS set up for easy file transfers amongst a subset of SDFers. It ran on a Toshiba T1000 with a USR Sportster modem. The image is a scan of the negative at the end of the roll of film. It was developed but Eckard Pharmacy thought it was not worth printing at the time.
in 2004 a BAD CONVERSATION between a Mac G4 Cube & an HP DeskJet printer created a series of 44 unique computer art pieces. These numbered cards are going to the first 44 BOOTSTRAP members
