ITS topics

ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was written in 1967 at the MIT AI Lab. It was first running on a PDP-6, but was moved to PDP-10 KA10 processors, in 1975 to a KL10 processor, and finally to KS10 processors. ITS was host to a number of influential programs and technologies: Lisp, Zork, MAZE, Scheme, CLU, Macsyma, SHRDLU, Lisp machines, Logo, Emacs, MacHack VI.

The museum has a real KS10 and an KA10 emulator running ITS.

• ITS Survival Guide, basic DDT commands.
• Adding a new ITS user
• Emulators for running ITS, and some of its peripherals.
• ITS machines throughout history
• How to start and stop ITS
• ITS loves PDP-11 minicomputers
• Managing the TV-11
• Using the GT40 as a Datapoint emulator or gaming machine
• ITS and Imlacs
• PDP-10 Maclisp
• PDP-6 LISP
• The Logo programming language, as hosted by ITS
• ITS operator console
• Assembler programming
• Programming the PDP-6
• Playing music from ITS
• Games on and off ITS
• ARDS terminals
• Updating ITS' host table