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Obsolescence Guaranteed
Personal blog · obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.comhardwaresystems
Obsolescence Guaranteed is a personal blog at obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com about hardware and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on retro computing projects, such as Raspberry Pi recreations of PDP-11 and PDP-10 systems and PDP-10 emulation. The comments cite it for news on those projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog about vintage computers and homebrewing computers.
What Hacker News says?
Supposedly a PDP-10 (KA10) is on its way too. Although there hasn't been an update for a year or so. http://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com/2020/02/inevitaby...
Comment linking /2020/02/inevitaby-pidp-10.html
on “PiDP-11 – Recreating PDP-11/70 with Raspberry Pi”Submitted Cloning a 6502 Apple-1 in just 930 logic gates as a story · 121 points
HN discussionIt just needs a paging box emulator, with a graphical Map-O-Meter! https://gunkies.org/wiki/Systems_Concepts_DM-10 http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp10/ITS_Hardware_Memo_2... http://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-turists... >Writing an emulator for a 36-bit computer in Javascript has special challenges because Javascript provides only 32-bit bit operations. In addition some operands on a KI10 may…
Comment linking /2020/02/a-turists-guide-to-its.html
on “PDP-10 Emulator in JavaScript”Submitted Starting to make a PiDP-11/70 (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOscar Vermeulen (who created the PiDP-8 and PiDP-11 kits) is, or at least was, creating a PiDP-10 prototype last year. I think he posts in HN on occasion. https://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com/2020/02/inevitab...
Comment linking /2020/02/inevitaby-pidp-10.html
on “Tenex, a Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10”Submitted Stack buffer overflow attack: 211BSD on the PDP-11 as a story · 1 points
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