[rescue] The Soul of that old Machine

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 9:26 AM Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:

> What are good resources to get started in emulating an Eclipse or Eclipse
> MV?

simh can simulate the Nova and Eclipse although I have personally never
tried.


>   What were the typical operating systems like?

Pretty standard for the day.   If you were used to DOS-8, TSS-8, TOPS-10,
VMS or like; you can learn any of them. A lot of the same people involved
in both systems.  Remember, DG was originally a fork from DEC.



> Are there reasonably accessible setups
>
I believe bit savers has a number of the docs and binaries.  Internet
search is your friend. If you don't find a step-by-step, take notes and
create one like the one that exist for Unix on the PDP-11 and the like.

Have fun.