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Re: DEC Oral Histories

From	Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: DEC Oral Histories
Date	2026-03-16 14:46 -0400
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"George Cornelius" <cornelius@decuserve.org.invalid> writes:

> I still have my username/password for Paul Allen's xkleten, where I would
> run the original version. Thanks for your work in making that available to
> us - too bad it's gone.

For those who never got on-line at PDPplanet.com (later known as
Living Computers: Museum+Labs), XKLeTen was Paul's first foray into
retrocomputing with real hardware.  It was an XKL Systems Corporation
Toad-1 System (to give it the full marketing name), an extended KL-10
clone running TOPS-20 v7.1.  It was first featured on a late 1990s
"Web 2.0" site called Paul Allen's Wired World.

(This was, as it happens, how I met Paul Allen, when I sold him that Toad-1.)

Around 2015 or so, we retired the Toad-1 hardware at the museum, moving
all accounts onto a TOAD-2 which Len Bosack donated to the museum in
advance of the grand opening in April 2013.

I believe that all such accounts are still active on the TOAD-2, which
is now part of the collection at the Interim Computer Museum, which has
been discussed before (perhaps in alt.sys.pdp10, perhaps here).

You should check, George.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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  Re: DEC Oral Histories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-03-09 02:47 +0000
    Re: DEC Oral Histories "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-03-09 19:28 +0000
      Re: DEC Oral Histories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-03-09 23:07 +0000
    Re: DEC Oral Histories Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-03-09 17:13 -0400
      Re: DEC Oral Histories "George Cornelius" <cornelius@decuserve.org.invalid> - 2026-03-16 08:42 +0000
        Re: DEC Oral Histories scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-16 15:04 +0000
        Re: DEC Oral Histories Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-03-16 14:46 -0400

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