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What's Here
This sysovl.info site is a place to organize and share various vintage computing resources I've assembled over a number of years. The navigation menu to the left leads to the top levels of a number of categories of material:
- Reference Material
- Documentation and collateral from various sources, including vendor manuals, as well as notes, diagrams and lists built by third parties.
- Downloads
- Vendor and open source software, in various forms including tape images, tarballs or zip files, raw flux images of floppy disks, etc.
- Gallery
- Images and videos of vintage hardware, software, ephemera, people and events.
- Writings
- Introductory guides, how-tos, system descriptions, war stories, opinion pieces, and personal notes.
- Search
- Eventually, I hope to make all of the content here, including PDFs, searchable.
Collecting Interests
My vintage computer collecting interests are insupportably broad, but a partial list includes, in no particular order:
- Documentation, collateral and ephemera for all of the below
- Prime Computer Inc. 50-series hardware and software
- IBM 370-family hardware and software, particularly VM/370 and its successors, and emulation of this family
- CDC 60-bit systems software, especially Michigan State University's SCOPE/HUSTLER operating system, and emulation of this hardware using dtcyber
- University of Michigan's (and collaborators) Michigan Terminal System OS, and emulation of its custom terminal and network hardware interfaces
- Michigan's early-appearing (1969) educational network Merit, especially its PCP/SCP-based hardware and software, and emulation of same
- CP/M hardware and software, especially Osborne and Vector Graphic MZ/System B machines
- Commodore PET hardware and software
- NeXT workstations
- DEC VAX, PDP-11 (and Pro-350), and PDP-8 family hardware and software
- Assembler language programming of all sorts of things
- 1802, 6800/6809 and other microprocessor architectures
- "Dumb" terminals, including ASCII serial as well as 3270 family
- Vintage media, especially 9-track tape, punched cards and tape, etc
- Michigan State University computing history, including MISTIC, the Merit network, newsletters, documentation, etc
- Non-TCP/IP networking protocols, e.g. SNA, X.25 family, NJE/RJE, DECnet
- Data General AOS(/VS), and earlier Eclipse hardware in emulation