Hello! I'd rather see a bootable pack containing ITS plus everything needed to make the pest work properly. ----- You then get handed a book on LISP as applied to EMACS containing copious notes written in a really atrocious longhand and in a nearly incomprehensible language. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 09/23/2013 06:16 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: When I read the book for the first time, I was surprised. Both at the fink's lack of talent in how to talk to a PDP-10's OS (any) and then his talents for doing things that most of us would want to do one way or the other. And naturally not do because its really not legal....... Dave is that system running? Or is it shutdown and waiting? Shutdown and waiting. It needs a MASSBUS drive to boot from. I'm pursuing some possibilities on that front, but very slowly. You really need to get one so I can run TOPS-10 on it. ;) I'm trying. You then see a crowd of yetis and a bigger crowd of snow leopards at work, at a machine. You see your available bandwidth shrink and then realize that's what they are using. Damn yetis are surfing porn again! In emacs!! Hey, it's a great OS for that. ;) Too true! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA