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🅱🅸🅶🅾🆁🆁🅴.🅾🆁🅶<p>Aviation weather for Decatur airport (USA) is “KDEC 040454Z AUTO 02013G21KT 10SM BKN120 11/04 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP139 T01060044” : See what it means on <a href="https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kdec/en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kdec/en</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decatur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decaturairport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decaturairport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kdec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kdec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aviationweather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviationweather</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> vl</p>
f1r3<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alpha</span></a> sucht neues Zuhause<br>AlphaStation 600 5/266 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/rescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rescue</span></a></p>
Doktor Overcomma :vepi:<p>Now flashing back to late 90s Linux work in the woods west of Boston, at former DEC sites where they ferociously waved the banner of the 64-bit Alpha processor which was going to save the entire UNIX family, civilization, and the galaxy. Of which, we're all still here, so...<br><a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/DigitalEquipmentCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalEquipmentCompany</span></a> <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alpha</span></a> <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a></p>
glyn<p>Quite pleased with these two new (so-called) FAQs for <a href="https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.ro</span><span class="invisible">bots.txt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">aclu.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.dec.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">dec.org.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WeDontNeedYourMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeDontNeedYourMoney</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WeDontAcceptDponsorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WeDontAcceptDponsorship</span></a><br /><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACLU</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DEC</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Myanmar/Burma earthquake disaster appeal</p><p>Home | Disasters Emergency Committee <a href="https://www.dec.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">dec.org.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earthquake</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Burma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Burma</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Myanmar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Myanmar</span></a></p>
Michael Engel<p>Fun fact: the "mx" MIPS Ultrix to Alpha OSF/1 binary executable translator has a MIPS and an Alpha binary. </p><p>The Alpha binary was binary translated from the MIPS version (the "mxr" executable implies it is run from the mx runtime)!</p><p>$ file usr/bin/ultrix/mx <br>usr/bin/ultrix/mx: MIPSEL ECOFF executable (paged) stripped - version 2.10<br>$ file usr/bin/aosf/mx <br>usr/bin/aosf/mx: a /usr/bin/mxr script executable (binary data)</p><p><a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/binary-translation.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/r</span><span class="invisible">esources/binary-translation.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sueden.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alpha</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/AXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AXP</span></a></p>
Airports Bot<p>Decatur Airport - Decatur, United States</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_Airport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decatur_</span><span class="invisible">Airport</span></a><br><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/39.834599/-88.865700" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openstreetmap.org/#map=13/39.8</span><span class="invisible">34599/-88.865700</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/KDEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDEC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Decatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decatur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/avgeeks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeeks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a></p>
Retrópolis<p>Episódio 162 – BASIC.BAS – Parte A</p><p><a href="https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/09/episodio-162-parte-a/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retropolis.com.br/2025/04/09/e</span><span class="invisible">pisodio-162-parte-a/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/6502BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6502BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/ApplesoftBASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ApplesoftBASIC</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/AtariBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariBasic</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/AtariMSBASIC" 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Wolfgang Stiefmaier pdp-8/ɣ. Nein, kein verspäteter Aprilscherz. Dahinter verbirgt sich eine emulierte PDP-8, gesehen am 24C3 (2007). <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/onepicaday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onepicaday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/dec?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dec</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/pdp8?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdp8</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/24c3?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#24c3</a>
Peter Bosch<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hsnl.social/@revspace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>revspace</span></a></span> After a few days of work, implementing 3 missing libc functions, repairing an extra 4MB of RAM, hacking around toolchain issues, we finally got Lynx 2.8.2 compiled and running on the VAX-11/750 (in 4.3 BSD Quasijarus)! That means we got to browse the (non-HTTPS) web using no equipment or parts newer than 1986 this side of the network (besides the AUI 10Base-T phy).</p><p><a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/theoldweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theoldweb</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/hackaday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hackaday</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/vax11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vax11</span></a></p>
Peter Bosch<p>Decided to display the VAX-11/750 at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hsnl.social/@revspace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>revspace</span></a></span> open day yesterday. All the hard work repairing it seems to have paid off, managed to get 14 hours of uptime out of it before shutting it down at the end of the day! <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/vax11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vax11</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/minicomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minicomputer</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/unixhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unixhistory</span></a> <a href="https://hsnl.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a></p>
Pyrzout :vm:<p>Booting a Desktop PDP-11 <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/03/23/booting-a-desktop-pdp-11/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/03/23/bootin</span><span class="invisible">g-a-desktop-pdp-11/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/pdp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp</span></a>-11 <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Booting a Desktop PDP-11 - Ever heard of VENIX? There were lots of variants of Unix back in the day, and VENI... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/03/23/booting-a-desktop-pdp-11/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/03/23/bootin</span><span class="invisible">g-a-desktop-pdp-11/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pdp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp</span></a>-11 <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a></p>
Petey P. Twelve<p>Hi all, we did our annual PDP-12 demo in Dr. Ted Pedersen's architecture class on Tuesday, and it went really well.</p><p>In cleaning up / reorganizing after showing off our artifacts, I realized that we have something that I haven't seen on @bitsavers, but I maybe just didn't know where to look. It's a big poster of PDP-12 instructions -- it's kind of like the pocket reference in poster format. It is about 9.5x30 inches (24x76 cm). I scanned it in two pieces on the office machine and stitched it together with GIMP. I'll try to make a PDF version with OCR text. @bitsavers <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pdp12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp12</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pdp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dec</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/umdpdp12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>umdpdp12</span></a></p>
User name cannot be blank 🇪🇺<p>Reading Museum is hosting an exhibition marking more than 60 years since Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) opened its first UK office</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/22/dec_reading_museum/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/03/22/dec</span><span class="invisible">_reading_museum/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TheRegister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRegister</span></a></p>
Simon Zerafa<p>Well <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://retrochat.online/@retrobytes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>retrobytes</span></a></span> goes very nerdy¹ about the DEC PDP-10 and builds a replica in the form of a PiDP-10 in an epic soldering montage.</p><p>He also waxes lyrical about the TOPS-10 OS for the PDP-10 and it's ancestry to CP/M, MS-DOS and via another route to Microsoft BASIC and a lot lot more more! </p><p>Connections going every which way that even James Burke would appreciate 😁</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/ybO6bPcRmlY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/ybO6bPcRmlY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>¹ Clearly the best kind of nerdy 🙂👌</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PDP10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP10</span></a></p>
Ubuntu Peronista<p>You may use this <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/VT100" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VT100</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/beep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beep</span></a> as you wish. :sdf:<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/feep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pcspeaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pcspeaker</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@larsbrinkhoff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>larsbrinkhoff</span></a></span> “The launch of Digital Equipment Corporation’s PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer in 1959 marked a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design.</p><p>This on-line exhibition covers the history of this groundbreaking computer and the Computer History Museum’s recent restoration of a PDP-1 to working order.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PDP1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP1</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BBN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBN</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">computerhistory.org/pdp-1/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt;</p>
Mark Gardner<p>Did I just do a <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> conversion of Mark Russinovich’s seminal 1998 article on <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsNT</span></a> (and by extension, all modern versions of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MicrosoftWindows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MicrosoftWindows</span></a>)’ debt to <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a>’s <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VMS</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/OperatingSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperatingSystem</span></a>? Just so I could have a decent copy apart from the dusty carried-over archived version at <a href="https://www.ITProToday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ITProToday.com/server-virtuali</span><span class="invisible">zation/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story</span></a> ?</p><p>Why yes, yes I did. Why not?</p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/VAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VAX</span></a></p>
Ian Davis<p>For anyone living near <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a>, there's a new exhibition running from <br>Tuesday 18 March – Wednesday 24 December 2025 about the UK's <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a>...</p><p>Reading’s DIGITAL Revolution <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Exhibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exhibition</span></a></p><p>"Get switched on with Reading’s DIGITAL Revolution – a new and unique mixed-media exhibition celebrating the life and times of Reading’s digital industries."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/reading%E2%80%99s-digital-revolution-exhibition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">readingmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/</span><span class="invisible">reading%E2%80%99s-digital-revolution-exhibition</span></a></p>