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I have a PDP-10 Mainframe in my Living room
The PDP-10 might be the most influential machine on our modern computing landscape, and yet not many people are aware of it. In this video I get to build one (well a replica), and get to talk about its history.
This video is sponsored by PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com).
If you want to look at the PiDP-10 kit in detail (or order one) https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp10
Thanks to Poke, for letting me use their music, if you want to hear more https://soundcloud.com/user-455711299
For those interest in going to (or exhibiting at) Retrofest https://www.retrofest.uk/
To join our discord https://discord.gg/MAbeBzzx
0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - A word from our sponsor
01:00 - The world of Mainframes
02:04 - DEC Produces a Mainframe (the PDP-10)
05:49 - The original PDP-10 hardware
07:40 - Let's look at the PiDP-10 kit
08:23 - The soldering montage
14:04 - Installing software on the PiDP-10
15:22 - TOPS-10
20:07 - ITS
24:12 - Using ITS and Knight TV
30:37 - PDP-10 Hardware/Performance
36:06 - Networking
37:05 - What happened to the PDP-10
42:26 - Thanks
43:11 - Parish notices
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By The PDP-10 might be the most influential machine on our modern computing landscape, and yet not many people are aware of it. In this video I get to build one (well a replica), and get to talk about its history.
This video is sponsored by PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com).
If you want to look at the PiDP-10 kit in detail (or order one) https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp10
Thanks to Poke, for letting me use their music, if you want to hear more https://soundcloud.com/user-455711299
For those interest in going to (or exhibiting at) Retrofest https://www.retrofest.uk/
To join our discord https://discord.gg/MAbeBzzx
0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - A word from our sponsor
01:00 - The world of Mainframes
02:04 - DEC Produces a Mainframe (the PDP-10)
05:49 - The original PDP-10 hardware
07:40 - Let's look at the PiDP-10 kit
08:23 - The soldering montage
14:04 - Installing software on the PiDP-10
15:22 - TOPS-10
20:07 - ITS
24:12 - Using ITS and Knight TV
30:37 - PDP-10 Hardware/Performance
36:06 - Networking
37:05 - What happened to the PDP-10
42:26 - Thanks
43:11 - Parish notices