Classic Computer Replicas

The "Extinct" arrow next to "Workstations - Sun, SGI" is sad - I miss the days of workstation-class machines

I have a few of these and enjoy them — the PDP-8 (emulated: PiDP-8), Altair 8800 (emulated: Altair-Duino), KIM-1 (more or less the real deal modulo the 6530 RIOT chips that are no longer available: PAL-1 and PAL-2).

These, as kits, are fun to assemble, fun then to play around with.

My interest lies in the VAX 11/780 running VMS. I once had one running in my janky old smartphone via Termux/SimH, but I lost it when I upgraded Termux, not realizing that it would delete all my stuff in the process. (Android is weird about files)

Old mini-computers, one of my favourite topics! Obligatory plug for doing achieving something similar today on a budget https://rodyne.com/?p=1751 discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42672366

Why do classic computers looks so much like synths ?

Obsolescence Guaranteed Is a good name for a replica retro computer store.

If I ever retire and run a bar on the beach^w^w^w^w retro computer store, that’s what it’ll be called.

Thank you dbelson for the mention! It's the oxygen we need.

...but just now, our web server crashed on the Hacker News traffic. Of course...

I may be alone in craving an AN/UYK-7.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-7

Why no music, apl, mvs, vm, dos, … all kicking and alive under Hercules …

by "replica" you mean emulator or something else?