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I had the privilege to work as a junior operator in the 80’s, and got exposed to some strange systems .. Tandem and Wang and so on .. and I always wondered if t

I had the privilege to work as a junior operator in the 80’s, and got exposed to some strange systems .. Tandem and Wang and so on .. and I always wondered if those weird Wang Imaging System things were out there, in an emulator somewhere, to play with, as it seemed like a very functional system for archive digitalization. As a retro-computing enthusiast/zealot, for me personally it is often quite rewarding to revisit the ‘high concept execution environments’ of different computing era. I have a nice, moderately sized retro computing collection, 40 machines or so, and I recently got my SGI systems re-installed and set up for playing. Revisiting Irix after decades away from it is a real blast.

Keyframe 1y ago
as a fellow dinosaur and a hobbyist, I concur. Especially SGI's. For those that didn't know, MAME (of all things) can run IRIX to an extent https://sgi.neocities.org/ https://sgi.neocities.org/
- rbanffy 1y ago
  The one I'd like to see working is the IBM 3193. Few people know IBM had graphics terminals and the 3270 protocol has provisions for high-res images going to/from the terminal. https://ifdesign.com/en/winner-ranking/project/datensichtgerat-ibm-3193-f-grafik-text-und-daten-anw/17190 https://ifdesign.com/en/winner-ranking/project/datensichtger...