[COFF] Re: [TUHS] SDF Beget's ICM - Interim Computer Museum

[Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, 8:00 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

>
> LCM+L owned a real Honeywell 6180 front panel.
>

Stephen Jones owns the panel; it was on display at the LCM as a loan.

The folks in their lab interfaced it to a microcontroller (I think it was
> an RP3 or 4, but it could be something like a BeagleBone, I never knew).
>

The LCM built a FPGA board to interface the hundreds of little unlabeled
white wires on the panel to a RS-232 serial line.

The simulator runs on an Intel NUC, and interfaces with the panel through
an USB RS-232 dongle.

  It was running Multics Release 12.8 on a SimH-derived Honeywell 6180 [I'm
> not sure if those changes ever made it back to OpenSIMH - I have not
> personally tried it myself].
>

SIMH based initially, but SIMH was unable to support the needed
functionality and has been mostly replaced and the kept bits heavily
modified; trying to merge those changes into OpenSIMH would break every
other simulated system.

> This system seems to have been moved to SDF's new site.

Yes; I went and visited it last weekend.

-- Charles

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