[rescue] The Soul of that old Machine

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/24/21 9:26 AM, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> I finally[0] read Tracy Kidder's _The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine_ last week,
> after it being on my list for at least a decade.B  Lamentably, I think
> the suits learned far more from the book than the nerds did.B  At over 45
> years hence, heroics and unpaid overtime are the norm around
> "deliverables."
> 
> That aside, I've never used _any_ Data General machine.B  Growing up
> rural, microcomputers were about as fancy as anyone got who wasn't doing
> accounting by paper.B  DECs, DGs, Suns, and Symbolics were mythical
> beasts I first heard of in the Jargon File.
> 
> What are good resources to get started in emulating an Eclipse or
> Eclipse MV?B  What were the typical operating systems like?B  Are there
> reasonably accessible setups like the MVS Tur(n)key kit?B  I see the RDOS
> kits on the SIMH page, but is there anything for AOS?

   For the next time you travel, one of LSSM's cabal has been working on 
a DG Nova 1200 system, he has it running code now.  Though that will 
mostly be a "paper tape BASIC" system, we have several other DG machines 
which have recently gotten some restoration attention, such as our 
MicroNOVA and Eclipse S/120.

   Emulation should tide you over, but there's real iron to be 
experienced the next time you feel like taking a drive.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA