On Oct 30, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 03:01 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Come bring me some good trading fodder and you can take home a
VAXstation.
I have a feeling you'd want something more valuable than an iPad
2 + bluetooth keyboardcase. ;)
Perhaps not...are you looking to unload the iPad? I'd hook you up
with a sweet system for that.
Yeah, I'll part with the iPad. Don't have much use for it now save
for as a musical instrument. I can include 2 keyboards, one docked
and one Bluetooth. 2 cases as well, keyboard is built in to one of
them. Wall charger and sync cable included. Hell, I still have the
box...
Hmmm. Ok. Let's take this off-list. (tomorrow...about to crash here)
Yeah, okay. Tomorrow.
Have any interest in a USB/eSATA SATA drive dock?
Nope.
Unfortunately, all that remains is the keyboard and processor. And 6G
of laptop DDR3. It was a fairly broken laptop. I /might/ still have
the display, too.
That's, umm, not terribly useful. ;) What happened to it??
It had several issues. The power system was touchy...it would be fine for months, then it would sometimes endlessly turn itself on and off (for a better description I'd need to consult logs...it's been awhile), graphics would glitch, disc drive loved oftentimes not working, it couldn't boot from USB CDROM. It couldn't do hardware-assisted virt, the NIC might not have been GigE, short battery life. It wasn't very old either...
Even more amusing? It was a product model that did not exist. The model did not appear on the manufacturer's website.
So I scrapped it for useful parts.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 03:01 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Come bring me some good trading fodder and you can take home a
VAXstation.
I have a feeling you'd want something more valuable than an iPad
2 + bluetooth keyboardcase. ;)
Perhaps not...are you looking to unload the iPad? I'd hook you up
with a sweet system for that.
Yeah, I'll part with the iPad. Don't have much use for it now save
for as a musical instrument. I can include 2 keyboards, one docked
and one Bluetooth. 2 cases as well, keyboard is built in to one of
them. Wall charger and sync cable included. Hell, I still have the
box...
Hmmm. Ok. Let's take this off-list. (tomorrow...about to crash here)
Have any interest in a USB/eSATA SATA drive dock?
Nope.
Unfortunately, all that remains is the keyboard and processor. And 6G
of laptop DDR3. It was a fairly broken laptop. I /might/ still have
the display, too.
That's, umm, not terribly useful. ;) What happened to it??
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Oct 30, 2012, at 2:51 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 02:33 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I want to try out a VAXstation some time, I started on a pentium
running windows 95, so I missed quite a bit of history. ;)
Come bring me some good trading fodder and you can take home a
VAXstation.
I have a feeling you'd want something more valuable than an iPad 2 +
bluetooth keyboardcase. ;)
Perhaps not...are you looking to unload the iPad? I'd hook you up
with a sweet system for that.
Yeah, I'll part with the iPad. Don't have much use for it now save for as a musical instrument. I can include 2 keyboards, one docked and one Bluetooth. 2 cases as well, keyboard is built in to one of them. Wall charger and sync cable included. Hell, I still have the box...
Can I pay in floppy disks or a PowerMac 8600? :p
I'm thinking no. ;)
I'm fairly positive you don't want any Pentium 4 systems
Co-rrectamundo.
How about paying in weird things? West Side Story soundtrack on
vinyl? 320G 7200RPM laptop drive? AMD HomePNA? (I forget which model)
Video Professor: Learn Microsoft Works (I only found level 3, so this
can go in "especially weird"). 802.11b PCMCIA Card? PCI IDE
Controller? 4.1 channel speaker system for a computer? Nvidia FX
5200? PCI sound card with digital output I forget the name of?
Windows 98 keys? Nintendo Wii? WordPerfect 7?
16G SCSI drives? SCSI CD-ROM drive? IDE PCI Controller?
No wood there, either.
Older modem Android phone? (Motorola Droid 2, verizon, pretty useless
as a anything other than a wifi device now).
Might be interested in that, but only mildly so.
I don't need it. It just sits on a desk gathering dust.
Have any interest in a USB/eSATA SATA drive dock?
Anything in particular you or anyone you know is looking for that's
PC-related? Need an older MIDI controller? Need some Pentium 3s?
Laptop Core2 Duo?
I can find a use for a C2D-based laptop.
Unfortunately, all that remains is the keyboard and processor. And 6G of laptop DDR3. It was a fairly broken laptop. I /might/ still have the display, too.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 02:33 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I want to try out a VAXstation some time, I started on a pentium
running windows 95, so I missed quite a bit of history. ;)
Come bring me some good trading fodder and you can take home a
VAXstation.
I have a feeling you'd want something more valuable than an iPad 2 +
bluetooth keyboardcase. ;)
Perhaps not...are you looking to unload the iPad? I'd hook you up
with a sweet system for that.
Can I pay in floppy disks or a PowerMac 8600? :p
I'm thinking no. ;)
I'm fairly positive you don't want any Pentium 4 systems
Co-rrectamundo.
How about paying in weird things? West Side Story soundtrack on
vinyl? 320G 7200RPM laptop drive? AMD HomePNA? (I forget which model)
Video Professor: Learn Microsoft Works (I only found level 3, so this
can go in "especially weird"). 802.11b PCMCIA Card? PCI IDE
Controller? 4.1 channel speaker system for a computer? Nvidia FX
5200? PCI sound card with digital output I forget the name of?
Windows 98 keys? Nintendo Wii? WordPerfect 7?
16G SCSI drives? SCSI CD-ROM drive? IDE PCI Controller?
No wood there, either.
Older modem Android phone? (Motorola Droid 2, verizon, pretty useless
as a anything other than a wifi device now).
Might be interested in that, but only mildly so.
Anything in particular you or anyone you know is looking for that's
PC-related? Need an older MIDI controller? Need some Pentium 3s?
Laptop Core2 Duo?
I can find a use for a C2D-based laptop.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 30 Oct 2012, at 02:14, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 02:10 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I want to try out a VAXstation some time, I started on a pentium
running windows 95, so I missed quite a bit of history. ;)
Come bring me some good trading fodder and you can take home a VAXstation.
I have a feeling you'd want something more valuable than an iPad 2 + bluetooth keyboardcase. ;)
Can I pay in floppy disks or a PowerMac 8600? :p
I'm fairly positive you don't want any Pentium 4 systems
How about paying in weird things? West Side Story soundtrack on vinyl? 320G 7200RPM laptop drive?
AMD HomePNA? (I forget which model) Video Professor: Learn Microsoft Works (I only found level 3, so this can go in "especially weird"). 802.11b PCMCIA Card? PCI IDE Controller? 4.1 channel speaker system for a computer? Nvidia FX 5200? PCI sound card with digital output I forget the name of? Windows 98 keys? Nintendo Wii? WordPerfect 7?
16G SCSI drives? SCSI CD-ROM drive? IDE PCI Controller?
Trying to think of other weird stuff I have that might be worth something to someone somewhere somehow
Older modem Android phone? (Motorola Droid 2, verizon, pretty useless as a anything other than a wifi device now).
Anything in particular you or anyone you know is looking for that's PC-related? Need an older MIDI controller? Need some Pentium 3s? Laptop Core2 Duo?
How long did you use the Sun3? And did you run SunOS on it? ;)
Of course. I ran a Sun3/50 for a few years, then a 4/110, then a
SPARCstation-1+, then a SPARCstation-IPX...then...jeeze, dozens of
machines. Dozens. Continuing to this day; the central computer here is
a Sun Fire V480, whose (large) workload is slowly being migrated to a
T1000. (which may get upgraded to a T2000 before the migration is complete)
Suns have done all the heavy lifting for me for nigh on twenty years now.
(I think it might be bad that Suns immediately remind me of
UNIX-HATERS )
Yeah. I know a bunch of those guys. Most of them hate *everything*. ;)
They do seem to hate everything. ;)
As my NAS currently runs in a VM, I'd need to upgrade the host a bit
to give it 8G (the host has 12G, and I get kinda nervous without
insane amounts of RAM free for future expansion) Also, why not use it
for /var?! You NEED that level of redundancy for storing X session
errors ;)
Yeah, that's it! ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 02:10 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I want to try out a VAXstation some time, I started on a pentium
running windows 95, so I missed quite a bit of history. ;)
Come bring me some good trading fodder and you can take home a VAXstation.
How long did you use the Sun3? And did you run SunOS on it? ;)
Of course. I ran a Sun3/50 for a few years, then a 4/110, then a
SPARCstation-1+, then a SPARCstation-IPX...then...jeeze, dozens of
machines. Dozens. Continuing to this day; the central computer here is
a Sun Fire V480, whose (large) workload is slowly being migrated to a
T1000. (which may get upgraded to a T2000 before the migration is complete)
Suns have done all the heavy lifting for me for nigh on twenty years now.
(I think it might be bad that Suns immediately remind me of
UNIX-HATERS )
Yeah. I know a bunch of those guys. Most of them hate *everything*. ;)
As my NAS currently runs in a VM, I'd need to upgrade the host a bit
to give it 8G (the host has 12G, and I get kinda nervous without
insane amounts of RAM free for future expansion) Also, why not use it
for /var?! You NEED that level of redundancy for storing X session
errors ;)
Yeah, that's it! ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 01:06 AM, John Wilson wrote:
I had a PDT-11/150 many years ago, mid-80s. It was kinda fun, but
also kinda pointless. The only thing you can run on it is RT-11.
I had one too back then and had a blast! RT-11 is terrific (infinitely
better than contemporary microcomputer OSes), and anyway a 150 will run
pretty much anything an 11/03 will run (but with 30 KW of memory instead of
just 28) so it's really pretty flexible.
JOHN! You're alive! How have you been?
Please don't take my comments the wrong way. I love ALL things PDP.
I'm just accustomed to RSTS/E and RSX-11M, "big" OSs. Little ones don't
really do much for me. That's all.
I wrote a FORTH-79 system on mine
(including a stand-alone 4-user version with a blinky NULJOB display on the
two LEDs), and a PDP-8 cross-assembler, and one side of a two-user "pong"
game that worked over the modem, and ported Small-C to it, and did a zillion
other things I don't even remember. Something or other with a Microsoft
serial mouse plugged into the modem port? It was such a great machine!!!
Neat!!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 30 Oct 2012, at 02:01, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 01:52 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Boner Hitler??
Asked a friend on IRC for a hostname, and he suggested bonerhitler,
doesn't fit my naming scheme but I haven't felt like changing it.
I like it. I could drink with this person.
Sorry, never did DECnet under Ultrix. I can help you with most
anything else Ultrix-related, though...it was my main desktop
platform for many years.
On a VAXstation or a DECstation?
On several machines. First on a VAXstation-II, then upgraded that to
a four-plane GPX with a grayscale monitor. I had a VAXstation-2000 on
the network with it, on a desk in another room.
I want to try out a VAXstation some time, I started on a pentium running windows 95, so I missed quite a bit of history. ;)
I moved to Sun3 desktop systems from there, but then ended up using a
gaggle of DECstation-3100s and -5000s for various server roles.
How long did you use the Sun3? And did you run SunOS on it? ;)
(I think it might be bad that Suns immediately remind me of UNIX-HATERS )
For long-term reliable online (as opposed to tape) data storage,
look into ZFS.
Actually, that's a good idea. How good is linux's support for it
right now?
It's very stable, but not very fast. Their (the zfsonlinux.org folks)
focus has been on stability first. They're just now starting to work on
performance.
Makes sense they'd focus on stability first, considering the ideals of ZFS.
I've been running it on my primary desktop machine, for everything
except /, /var, and /usr, across four 1.5TB drives, for about a year.
It's good so far, but, NOTE WELL, it needs GOBS of memory. Don't even
try it on a system with less than 4GB. It gives you a lot back, but it
does eat memory. I'm running 16GB in that system. I recommend at least
8GB.
As my NAS currently runs in a VM, I'd need to upgrade the host a bit to give it 8G (the host has 12G, and I get kinda nervous without insane amounts of RAM free for future expansion)
Also, why not use it for /var?! You NEED that level of redundancy for storing X session errors ;)
Boner Hitler. *snicker*
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 12:37 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I got pakgen.c if you want it - I think you just need to figure out
what the product name is and you're good
Happen to know the product name for Ultrix itself on a MicroVAX? ;)
and would you have a copy of some install media? I don't think I
installed the DECnet bits.
Ultrix itself, if you're talking about a PAK for it, this doesn't
really apply, as far as I can recall. There's a file called "upgrade"
that lives in the root directory (!) that controls how many concurrent
logins are allowed on a given system. It's encrypted somehow. I never
dug into it because, well, I had some of the files.
I could swear that I had archived 1-user, 2-user, and 16-user (I
think) user "upgrade" files many years ago, but a quick look through the
places where I'd normally keep such things hasn't turned them up. I
likely have them somewhere. (I sure hope I do..)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 01:52 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Boner Hitler??
Asked a friend on IRC for a hostname, and he suggested bonerhitler,
doesn't fit my naming scheme but I haven't felt like changing it.
I like it. I could drink with this person.
Sorry, never did DECnet under Ultrix. I can help you with most
anything else Ultrix-related, though...it was my main desktop
platform for many years.
On a VAXstation or a DECstation?
On several machines. First on a VAXstation-II, then upgraded that to
a four-plane GPX with a grayscale monitor. I had a VAXstation-2000 on
the network with it, on a desk in another room.
I moved to Sun3 desktop systems from there, but then ended up using a
gaggle of DECstation-3100s and -5000s for various server roles.
For long-term reliable online (as opposed to tape) data storage,
look into ZFS.
Actually, that's a good idea. How good is linux's support for it
right now?
It's very stable, but not very fast. Their (the zfsonlinux.org folks)
focus has been on stability first. They're just now starting to work on
performance.
I've been running it on my primary desktop machine, for everything
except /, /var, and /usr, across four 1.5TB drives, for about a year.
It's good so far, but, NOTE WELL, it needs GOBS of memory. Don't even
try it on a system with less than 4GB. It gives you a lot back, but it
does eat memory. I'm running 16GB in that system. I recommend at least
8GB.
Boner Hitler. *snicker*
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
