CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System) was developed in the early 1960s by the MIT Computation Center for the IBM 7090 and IBM 7094 mainframe computers. CTSS was the first general-purpose time-sharing operating system.
Choose host “ibm7094” from the SDF Vintage Systems menu.
When you have connected to CTSS, you will see a message similar to the following:
MIT8C0 2 USERS AT 06/30/72 814.6, MAX = 30 READY.
Log in with the command login guest
. (Or use your personal log in ID instead of “guest”.)
After the red Password
prompt, enter the password “guest” (or your own password).
Enter the command logout
.
(If you are not returned to the SDF Vintage Systems menu, press the escape character (Ctrl-]), then at the lcmtelnet>
prompt enter q
.)
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