If you want the classic feel of working with an IBM mainframe or another classic computer like the DEC VAX, you have a few options. You can spend a lot of money trying to find one, transport it, and rebuild it. But, of course, most of us will settle for an emulator. While there are great emulators out there, most of the time you're not just interested in running the bare machine—you want the operating system, compiler, and other software that make these machines so interesting. Running your three lines of machine code isn't as much fun as hunting down wumps or compiling some Fortran IV code. Unfortunately, it can be hard to find copies of all this outdated software. but thanks for the efforts [Rattydave], you can do it without any problem. Mystery? pre-built docker images In which everything you need is in one place.
Apart from IBM MVS, VM370And TSSyou can run too mallets — On a collection of computers from — the predecessor of Unix DEC, HP and DGand even a cray 1 supercomputer, There are good instructions, although some machines take a little work. For example, the TSS image notes:
This system is not ready to run. You need IPL 250 and then you can control via telnet connection. (If you don't know what IPL 280 means then this container is not for you.)
We're not sure whether those two are supposed to be 250, or both of them as 280, or if that sentence even makes sense. It's been a long time since IBM computers were IPLed. We think they should both be 250.
There are a number of SIM-H machines in the collection including an Altair 8080 with and without a Z80 CPU, an IBM 1130 and many others that probably still need some attention to work.
Of course, you still need to know how to make a computer work, although the notes for each image will help you at least get a foothold. you probably should know a little about docker, also, although to use it, it is not so difficult. Also if you start using docker, you will find so many different uses for it,
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