Historic Microcomputer Restoration?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 9, 2006 @10:35AM from the preserve-the-past dept.

Pojodojo asks: "I am doing an independent study next semester with my computer science professor which we decided to call Historic Microcomputer Repair and Restoration. I will be working with such classics as the Altair 8080 and the Apple II. After I have repaired and or restored these machines, I will put them in a display for others to see. I have the opportunity for a modest budget to get equipment to put in the display, and would like to know is, what sort of things would you as fellow comp sci geeks like to see in a Historic Computer exhibit?"

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Re:Old school Unix... by Bing+Tsher+E · 2006-05-09 11:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A VAX system can run a fairly old-school UNIX, and Microvaxes use microprocessors, not discrete logic, so are on-topic to this discussion. A machine capable of 'old school UNIX' (like, say, 4.3BSD-Quasijarus) is fairly easy to bring up.

And some of the later-model Vaxen are easy-to-handle desktop boxes. Look up a MicroVAX 3100 or something of that nature.