Thanks to simulation software, it's now possible to run historical
software on the modern PC. Through the following links, you can get
your own PDP-11, IBM mainframe, Altair 8800, and dozens of other
fascinating machines. In many cases, the old operating systems are
available. It's amazing really: you can now download for free what
used to cost millions of dollars, and still have more free space left
on your hard drive than all the disk storage in the world could have
held back in the old days.
Here are some links to nifty emulation and preservation sites:
Here is a collection links to some popular emulators. If you know
of others to add to this list, let us know! (We don't plan on listing
game console emulators here, though... that's another world
entirely!)
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