legacy technology
internal
The National Security Agency's relationship with MULTICS (UNIX predecessor) as preserved by NNTP/Usenet via UUCP
Goodbye time-sharing, hello multi-tasking: a story about the end of a process scheduling era
Text file listing USENET NNTP newsgroups
Access Certificates for Electronic Services Crypto Policy by gsa.gov
external
Archives, Backup, Data Rot, etc.
The Library of Congress: Digital Preservation
Soldier of Fortran: Mainframe Hacking at its Finest!
Harvard Dataverse Network
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS)voluntary partnership of organizations created to archive, catalog and preserve data used for social science research
examples include: opinion polls; voting records; surveys on family growth and income; social network data; government statistics and indices; and GIS data measuring human activity
California Digital Library Web Archiving Services
Delaware Digital Video Factory
CBS Sunday Morning: Keeping up with Data Rot
weirdstuff.com - Resellers of Surplus Computer Hardware and Software
Radio Shack
Tim Mann's TRS-80 Pages
VMS
VMS remains secure at DEFCON9 hacker fest
VMS FAQ by SavillTech
HP OpenVMS Guide to System Security, Chapter 4: Protecting Data
DEFCON;16 featured talk about "Hacking OpenVMS"
Digital Equipment Computer User Society Library Compendium
WASD VMS Web Services
VMS Help *Conan The Librarian
DCL Dialogue Online
Dave Cutler
IBM (International Business Machines)
The Fifth HOPE (2004): AS/400: Lifting the Veil of Obscurity
The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator(runs under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD and Mac OS X)
IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
z/OS Security Technical Implementation Guide from the Defense Information Systems Agency Information Assurance Support Environment
IBM MAINFRAME FORUM
Linux for S/390 Big Iron
TOPS-20
TWENEX.ORG, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21733)-4(public telnet server offers free accounts with compilers for various legacy/nostalgic programming languages)
Web Index with Plenty of TOPS-20 Documentation
Web Interface to Public Access TOPS-20 System
Emulation, Abstraction, Virtualization, etc.
Browser emulation of the Weerd game written for the Radio Shack&circler; TRS/80.
FreeVMS: An open source GPL-licensed VMS clone for the amd64 architecture(currently distributed as a bootable qemu image; source code available from git server)
The Computer History Simulation Project(The goal of the project is to create highly portable system simulators and to publish them as freeware on the Internet.
The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator(runs under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD and Mac OS X)
Blue Basic is a heavily modified port of the TinyBasic interpreter developed to run on Texas Instruments IC's (Integrated Circuit chips)
Mainframes, Supercomputing, etc.
TOP500 SUPERCOMPUTING SITES
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (V 12.2.0)
Bulletin Board Systems, Multi-User Dungeons, and Other ANSI Art Stuff
MUDStats.Com is a statistics and information website for MUDs
Mystic BBS (Under Development in 2015!)
Jason Scott's BBS Documentary
