[rescue] The Soul of that old Machine

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Dave McGuire wrote:

>  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.

LSSM is definitely on my list of things to see when travel is a
reasonable option again.  In fact, your part of the world is one of the
places I'd like to visit for the express purposes of considering a move,
now that Austin is decidedly no fun anymore.

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

Indeed.  That's the other semi-mythical thing about DG hardware.  I own
PDP11s, VAXes, Suns, SGIs, Alphas, etc.  I've had accounts on AT&T
machines, IBM mainframes,   I've helped move and rehab literally tons of
other architecture.

I've never even *seen* a Data General system in person.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA