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The Computer History Simulation Project

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. countdown by drDugan · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    10 days to blackout

  2. Hello ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mutation rulez !
    My ears are very big now.

  3. Things To Do Today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Smoke crack

    2. Smoke more crack.

  4. Did You Know? by t0j0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Did you know the United States awards Israel $5 billion in aid each year?
    Did you know that yearly US aid to Israel exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole African continent?
    Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?
    Did you know that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?

    Did you know that Israel currently occupies territories of sovereign nations in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?

    Did you know that Israel has for decades routinely sent assassins in to other countries to kill its political enemies?
    Did you know that high-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were Executed by the IDF?

    Did you know that Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
    Did you know that Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and land and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the confiscation?

    Did you know that Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt (1954) and attacked a U.S. ship (1967) in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?

    Did you know that the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders, is the Israeli AIPAC?

    Did you know that Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions?
    Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in Israel?
    Did you know that Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?
    Did you know that Jerusalem, both East and West, is considered by the entire world community, including the United States, to be occupied territory and NOT part of Israel?

    Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about 400 settlers,while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians?

    Did you know that today's Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400 now-vanished Palestinian villages, and that the Israeli's re-named almost every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?

    Did you know that it was not until 1988 that Israelis were barred from running "Jews Only" job ads?
    Did you know that four prime ministers of Israel (Begin, Shamir, Rabin, and Sharon) have taken part in either bomb attacks on civilians, massacres of civilians, or forced expulsions of civilians from their villages?

    Did you know that the Israeli Foreign Ministry pays two American public relations firms to promote Israel to Americans?
    Did you know that Sharon's coalition government includes a party Molodet which advocates expelling all Palestinians from the occupied territories?

    Did you know that Israel's settlement-building increased in the eight years since Oslo?
    Did you know that settlement building under Barak doubled compared to settlement building under Netanyahu?
    Did you know that the Palestinians have already accepted Israel's existence on 78% of what was Palestine. Bible God said to Abraham, "Unto thy seed, I will give thy land." Abraham had two sons. Ismael-the Arab son, and Isaac-the Jewish son. So even if one wants to go to the Bible, the land would belong to both.

    Did you know that Palestinian Christians are considered the "living stones" of Christianity because they are the direct descendants of the disciples of Jesus Christ?

    Did you know that despite a ban on torture by Israel's High Court of Justice, torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?

    Did you know that Palestinian refugees make up the largest portion of the refugee population in the world?
    AL AQSHO IS IN GREAT DANGER........HARMED BY DIRTY NATION CALLED ISRAEL

  5. Re:17 billion in aid, not 5 billion. by t0j0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as long as i manage to get the message accross is good enough. most people know more about this kind of crime that had been done by israel, more that what is mentioned. but why nobody has the guard to stand up. what happened to the world we are leaving in when we know so much of bad things and we let it happened.

  6. Re:At least for game-emus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I support neither the Palestinians NOR the Israelis. Evacuate the entire country, nuke it from orbit, and then give each individual an exposure suit and then see if they still want to fight over their ``holy'' (spit!) land.

    Fucking religious morons.