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- What in the AI slop is this website? Looks like it's trying to get me to download malware.by sph
- I love it. My PDP-11 has some fault that keeps it blowing fuses. Emulators don’t feel the same. Real hardware doing the work, well doneby jmbwell
- >A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix
No it isn't.
~$ whois $(dig +short pdp1173.com | head -n1) | grep netname netname: CLOUDFLARENET-EUby encom - I posted this to twostopbits. Community over there is small but devoted to such willful acts of restorationby mikerg87
- Thanks for keeping the spirit of the old internet alive :)
I hope you won’t have to restore it from tape!
- I miss my 11/83, which was connected to my network through a SLIP connection to a Power Mac running Yellow Dog Linux and connecting to the Internet via dialup.
It was the late '90s, and it shared my small apartment with a DEC AlphaServer running VMS, an HP 3000 running MPE, an IBM System/36, an IBM AS/400, a Wang OIS, a SparcStation 1, and a NextStation.
I miss them all.
I do still have an external SCSI TK50 in an MicroVAX 2000-style lunchbox enclosure (complete with carrying handle) in good working order, though, and have toyed with the idea of installing a Raspberry Pi in the enclosure alongside the tape drive to emulate a VAX.
by jasomill - A PDP-11 serving adverts for an AI-written site in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being brought back from the dead for that.by dwedge
- Please do not treat it as a challenge box; I can restore from tape, but that ruins it for everyone else.
Unfortunately, for a disturbing percentage of the Internet, ruining things for everyone else is the goal. I'd turn off telnet.
by kjs3