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Jecel wrote:
> great job! This is an important step in preserving an obscure, but
> valuable, part of our computing history. How did you get the microcode
> and software and other details to implement this?

I have access to MIT's archive of PDP-10 backup tapes.  There I found
Minsky's hardware description with all details to implement the
emulator, and Hillis' microcode source and binaries.

Some of those files are trickling out at a slow pace.  These
are published with permission from Hillis.
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/tt2500-raw-data

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