https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-wall-crock

Abuse a 70s mainframe as a wall clock
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-wall-crock

incompatible-timesharing-system pdp-10

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Abuse a 70s mainframe as a wall clock

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/pdp10-wall-crock
• Owner: larsbrinkhoff
• Created: 2017-10-05T13:25:30.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-07T05:21:56.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T19:11:17.706Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: incompatible-timesharing-system, pdp-10
• Language: C
• Size: 36.1 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
The PDP-10 was a mainframe computer popular in the 1970s.  ITS was an

operating system for the PDP-10, created by hackers at MIT.

ITS had many applications for displaying time.  Two of them were CROCK

and DCROCK.  The first displayed an analog clock on a terminal, and

the second was a digital version.  There was also a CLOCK which worked

with the Knight TV raster display.

I think it would be an appropriate tribute to the PDP-10 and a nod to

the ITS hacker culture to make a wall-mounted CROCK using a PDP-10

emulator running on a small board connected to a flat screen.

![CROCK](crock.png)

![DCROCK](dcrock.png)

![CLOCK](clock.png)