[Simh] SIMH in the news today

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-01-31 20:50, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> I didn't know that ITS was ever lost or gone... I know of people who
>> have kept running it...
>
> Do tell!  This is what I think I know about ITS' ups and downs:
>
> 1967 to 1975 were exiting times.  Machines were added every few years.
> The sixes were upgraded to 10s.  A shiny new KL was made to run ITS.
> But then, the KAs started falling apart.
>
> For a period around 1985, all KAs were shut down, and only the KL was
> running.  That must have been a low point in the history of ITS.  But
> then they got the replacement KS machines, and things looked perkier
> again.  There even was one more machine than before.
>
> But in 1988, the KL was shut down and was shipped to Sweden.  In 1990,
> the KSes went down too.  I know Stacken and a few indivisuals had ITS
> running on their machines, but maybe not on a very regular basis?  Rumor
> has it Stacken shut down in 1995.
>
> KLH got his emulator up shortly after the demise of the MIT site, but it
> wasn't availale to the public until the early 2000s.  Paul Svenssion
> moved his SV system from SIMH to KLH10, and made it available online.
> It's been off the net for a few years, but it's back now.
>
> UP has been a mainstay of ITS online precence since 2003, and still is.

So you obviously also know of ITS machines that have been existing all 
the time. :-)
Your recount though, sounds more like you are talking about a specific 
machine or site, and not ITS in general.

Yes, Stacken had a KA in the mid 80s. We've talked about it before. I 
don't think it ran ITS in general, but might have booted it on some 
occasion. I think I know of one or two KLH instances playing with ITS 
before KLH became public. After all, KLH have existed for quite some 
time, by now...
(Confusing to talk both about the emulator KLH, and the person KLH, who 
wrote KLH... :-) )

And then you had some individuals who had their own KS at home.

You might want to talk with Björn Victor...

	Johnny

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