Very nice. Unix running on a restored PDP-7. Here’s a video of it in action.
(Mod edit: that blog and video now dead links, but see here for the blog and here for the video)
[Ayse H.] I recently sat down with Fred Yearian, a former Boeing engineer, and Jeff Kaylin, an engineer at Living Computers, to talk about their restoration work on Yerian’s PDP-7 at Living Computers: Museum + Labs. The PDP-7 (short for ‘Programmed Data Processor’) was introduced by The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1964.
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On November 7th, 2018, after over a year of correspondence following Yearian’s initial visit, a handful of Living Computers engineers including Jeff Kaylin, Cynde Moya, and Stephen Jones arrived at Yearian’s house to extract the PDP-7 from his work room and load it onto a truck bound for the museum.From there, the team began working to load the UNIX Version 0 operating system onto the machine. This goal was an homage to the fact that Ken Thompson wrote UNIX Version 0 on an old PDP-7 at Bell Labs in 1969. UNIX also turned 50 this year, which made the restoration project all the more timely.
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After countless hours of work, the team booted UNIX v0 on Yearian’s PDP-7 on Monday October 28th, 2019 for the first time. The engineers logged in as user ‘dmr’ as a tribute to Dennis M. Ritchie, who created UNIX with Ken Thompson in 1969.
