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The Computer History Simulation Project

Posted by michael on from the remembering-the-bad-old-days dept.

ChunKing writes "The Computer History Simulation Project is a loose Internet-based collective of people interested in restoring historically significant computer hardware and software systems by simulation. The goal of the project is to create highly portable system simulators and to publish them as freeware on the Internet, with freely available copies of significant or representative software. I can't wait 'til someone fixes me an OS/390 emulator to remind me of the days when I used to be an Ops Analyst for a major bank..."

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  1. Non-US systems ignored... by earthy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How very interesting to note once again that Americans tend to think that everything important in computers has been American. For instance, I don't see the Electrologica machines, the X1 and X8, mentioned anywhere, even though they were the first to incorporate interrupts. Oh well. :)

    Oh, some more information is at the University of Amsterdam's Computer Museum's Electrologica X1 and X8 site.