Hackaday [Unofficial]The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/the-vacuum-tubes-last-stands/
The Vacuum Tube’s Last Stand(s) https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/the-vacuum-tubes-last-stands/
#Featured #History #OriginalArt #Acorntube #Compactron #Lighthousetube #Nuvistor #Subminiaturetubes #Tube
#Featured #History #OriginalArt #Acorntube #Compactron #Lighthousetube #Nuvistor #Subminiaturetubes #Tube
JdeBPAlthough Jonathan Graham Harston has BBC BASIC for the PDP-11.
https://mdfs.net/Software/Tube/PDP11/
( Local councillor, retrocomputer, and hill walker. How many FediVerse user profiles match that? (-: )
#BBCMaster #PiCoPro #PiTube #SecondProcessor #AcornTube #BBCBASIC #PDP11
Aha! Found it! I'd been looking for this. Recommended once by YouTube, and then lost.
Paint.App
… on GEM
… on DR-DOS
… on an 8086 PC emulator
… on a Raspberry Pi
… running as a second processor using a BBC Master 128 for I/O.
There's a follow-up re-hash video by @WiFiSheep that explains the tokenization problem with the CIRCLE statement.
Of the many people who have run #Elite on a Pi second processor, none seem to have thought about switching to the PDP-11 emulation and trying to run some early Unix. But seeing DR-DOS on a BBC Master is pretty wild.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mP7fiaync5E
#BBCMaster #PiCoPro #PiTube #SecondProcessor #DRDOS #AcornTube
