Time has come to clear out a major portion of the stash. At my
age I will never get around to all of the projects. The
following is a partial listing of what is available. I will add
to the list as stuff emerges from the pile. Make offers, cash
or trade. Pickup only in Guntersville, AL, USA.
mVAX II (BA-23) several
mVAX II (BA-123) several
various DEC Qbus card cages for PDP-11
power supply, blower and etc for RM-03
The following needs to go to someone that can make them available to the
group.
A lot of VMS gray wall books
A lot of VMS orange wall books
A lot of component (IC, diode, transistor) manufacture's data books
Time has come to clear out a major portion of the stash. At my
age I will never get around to all of the projects. The
following is a partial listing of what is available. I will add
to the list as stuff emerges from the pile. Make offers, cash
or trade. Pickup only in Guntersville, AL, USA.
mVAX II (BA-23) several
mVAX II (BA-123) several
various DEC Qbus card cages for PDP-11
power supply, blower and etc for RM-03
The following needs to go to someone that can make them available to the group.
A lot of VMS gray wall books
A lot of VMS orange wall books
A lot of component (IC, diode, transistor) manufacture's data books
The hard part is finding time,
work is keeping me way to busy right now.
I know what you mean, but I think I prefer to spend my Sunday afternoon
trying to fix the DECtape drives on my PDP-8 (even if it won't ever be on
HECnet!).
Right after I call my Mom, that is. At least in the USA, today is
Mother's Day.
Bob
At 7:14 AM -0700 5/11/08, Bob Armstrong wrote:
>It wasn't heat for me, at least not yet. For some reason I blocked
the network port. You're all back on HECnet, sorry about that. I'm
going to claim overwork, which considering when I last modified the
file that could very well be the case.
Yep, looks like it's up again. To be honest, I hadn't even noticed that
the PDXVAX link was down until you mentioned it yesterday. Maybe I should
write a little batch job to alert me if a link is down for more than 24
hours...
One of these days I really want to get V2 of the CGI at http://www.avanthar.com:8080/nodes/ written. The plan is for a database backend, and adding alerts when systems such as LEGATO are inaccessible would be easy enough. The hard part is finding time, work is keeping me way to busy right now.
Zane
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It wasn't heat for me, at least not yet. For some reason I blocked
the network port. You're all back on HECnet, sorry about that. I'm
going to claim overwork, which considering when I last modified the
file that could very well be the case.
Yep, looks like it's up again. To be honest, I hadn't even noticed that
the PDXVAX link was down until you mentioned it yesterday. Maybe I should
write a little batch job to alert me if a link is down for more than 24
hours...
Thanks,
Bob
At 11:27 AM -0700 5/10/08, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Bob seems to be down, so I'm not bridging the two groups.
Bob is down? Why do you think that?
Because I didn't see LEGATO, and PDXVAX is up.
Right now, I have Multinet connections to SELENE, DUSTY and STUPI. Looks
like the links to ZARQON and PDXVAX are down which, from what you've said,
is not really a surprise.
It wasn't heat for me, at least not yet. For some reason I blocked the network port. You're all back on HECnet, sorry about that. I'm going to claim overwork, which considering when I last modified the file that could very well be the case.
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 1:00 PM +0100 5/10/08, Christine Caulfield wrote:
It's that time of year already !
It's too hot for me to run a VAX in my office at the moment so I've
shut zarqon down for a while, sorry.
Knowing the British weather, I'm sure it will cool down again and
I'll be able to power it back up fairly soon ;-)
Hi Chrissie,
I know how that goes. I really wish I had a dedicated computer room
with air conditioning. At some point PDXVAX will have to go down as
well. In fact we're supposed to hit 88F next Friday, hopefully this
isn't a sign it will get hot early this year. Of course recently we
had 75-80F one Saturday and snow the next.
Was your VAX routing any Multinet sites? Bob seems to be down, so
I'm not bridging the two groups.
Zane
We had 85 about 3 weeks ago and then last week got 30" of snow that shut
down the interstate across the middle of the US. Today was the LAST day
for my network admin class (thank God) and sad to say, the student I had
given the DECnet bridge project didn't come through so as I told Bob, I
will probably do that part myself this summer (hopefully get my net up).
The student I had given the MicroVax 3100 (network NetBSD install) still
wants to finish that project (maybe some knowledge will rub off on him).
At least we got home this week without running into any UFO's. Believe
it or not, 2 weeks ago (driving in the snow) a pickup with a trampoline
strapped to their roof (with monster cable speaker wire), flew off their
roof an nailed the left side of the car we were driving home in. Today
we were lucky. We only got about 2" of snow and no UFO's coming back.
They say, "Trampoline's never strike the same place twice". ;-)
Brett
PS. Last weeks snow was gone in 2 days: http://www.rsts.org/~bbump/snow
Bob seems to be down, so I'm not bridging the two groups.
Bob is down? Why do you think that?
Right now, I have Multinet connections to SELENE, DUSTY and STUPI. Looks
like the links to ZARQON and PDXVAX are down which, from what you've said,
is not really a surprise.
Unfortunately I don't run Johnny's bridge program. I did briefly a couple
of years ago, but I didn't want to keep another machine running 24x7 just
for that purpose.
Bob
At 1:00 PM +0100 5/10/08, Christine Caulfield wrote:
It's that time of year already !
It's too hot for me to run a VAX in my office at the moment so I've shut zarqon down for a while, sorry.
Knowing the British weather, I'm sure it will cool down again and I'll be able to power it back up fairly soon ;-)
Hi Chrissie,
I know how that goes. I really wish I had a dedicated computer room with air conditioning. At some point PDXVAX will have to go down as well. In fact we're supposed to hit 88F next Friday, hopefully this isn't a sign it will get hot early this year. Of course recently we had 75-80F one Saturday and snow the next.
Was your VAX routing any Multinet sites? Bob seems to be down, so I'm not bridging the two groups.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
It's that time of year already !
It's too hot for me to run a VAX in my office at the moment so I've shut zarqon down for a while, sorry.
Knowing the British weather, I'm sure it will cool down again and I'll be able to power it back up fairly soon ;-)
--
Chrissie
