Folks,
I successfully installed DECnet/Python on Ubuntu 21.10 system and was
successfully connected to HECnet.
I have a few questions about DECnet/Python. I choose that because it
support virtual circuits like Multinet over TCP, etc..
I can't find any apps (programs) to support DECnet/Python like login, set
host, dir, etc. Only DECnet for Linux has programs.
Does DECnet for Raspberry Pi work with Ubuntu 21.10 (Linux 5.13 for x86)?
Tim
Hi,
Around 2007 I gave away my pair of 4000/500A systems, I believe to
Brian Hechinger. They were taking up way too much space in the dining
room, and that I just wasn't that interested in putting the time
and money into sustaining the pair. I also really wanted SCSI storage,
but Q-BUS SCSI controllers were way out of my financial reach at the
time.
Since then, circumstances have changed, and with renewed interest, I
acquired a BA23 Q-BUS MicroVAX, and eventually a Q-BUS SCSI controller,
but nothing that came close to those 4000/500As.
Some years later, I believe Brian moved, and offered these up again
on one of these lists, or maybe CCTALK, but I missed that posting
until too late, and lost track of who ended up with those.
If these are in use, I wish whoever has them the best, and am extremely
glad at least they did not end up scrapped; I did my part towards that.
However, if whoever has them is no longer using them, I am here and
interested in whether one or both might be available.
I hope this is an appropriate posting, and it is not misunderstood by
those involved.
Mark
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Mark G. Thomas <Mark at Misty.com>, KC3DRE
Hi,
Apologies for my HECnet connections being up and down over the past day or two. I finally decided to 'upgrade' to a Draytek Vigor 2865ac router from the older 2862ac and/or the home grown linux/pf-sense I have been experimenting with on and off. Anyway, the documentation stated that I could dump the config of the old vigor and install it into the new one. It looked ok but quite frankly wasn't. Half the WAN side of things wouldn't come up and kept crashing the entire unit. So I configured it from scratch... and cleared out a load of old stuff as a result.
Routing policy doesn't work properly and gets misconfigured when you're not using the default 'address of router' for NAT-based operations - support request logged.
IPv6... yes I know you don't want to know or care... nevertheless... There's some (state sponsored?) port scanning on random IPv6 host addresses with my prefix. The router is naturally blocking them but the damned IPv6 neighbour table is filling up with them! They don't go anywhere, but over the last few hours, the table now has about 900 entries - another support request logged... and the bloody router hasn't been out of its box for more than a day!
Keith
A2RTR will be down tomorrow (Monday) for a couple of hours sometime
between 9AM PDT and 3PM. It's not my doing - PG&E is replacing a
transformer and the power will be off. I have battery backup for some of my
equipment, but not A2RTR. Sorry.
It's also going to have to go down sometime again, maybe next weekend, so
I can replace a disk drive that's failing. I bought two identical drives
and plan to set up a RAID 1 array this time. If anybody has set up a
software RAID on Ubuntu, using the md driver and mdadm, for the system drive
and you have advice, let me know. Espcially if you managed to make both of
the drives bootable.
Bob
Recently Al Kossow made available a zip file containing a Micro/PDP-11
installation kit for Unix V7M-11 V1.0 on bitsavers as RX50 disk images.
Tinkering away here in Covid lockdown, I've managed to get this running
under SIMH pdp11 emulating an almost historically accurate PDP-11/23 plus.
I've placed the SIMH initialisation file, a couple of RD51 disk images and
an "installation recipe" for making these disks on GitHub at -
https://github.com/agn453/V7M-11
While I mainly had exposure to later versions of Unix and Ultrix-11 on
a PDP-11/70 as an undergraduate - this one surely brings back memories!
Tony
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Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
After a prolonged outage Area 4 is now back on hecnet via a new Raspberry
Pi, so the archive on SLAVE:: is now available again (all the time the
windows vm that it is being emulated on is up) as well as a debian VM
hosted SIMH ORAC recreation.
I'm planning on using a (real) VAXstation during this years October
Retrochallenge (it starts tomorrow):
https://www.retrochallenge.org/
Twitter: @retrochallenge
After a shaky couple of retrochallenge I've decided to step in and help out
with this one, but will also be hopefully using it as an excuse to spend a
bit of time on DEC equipment.
Also please note that it is DEC Legacy in Windermere, UK in two weekends:
9th/10th October.
http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/
Regards, Mark.
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https://www.qrz.com/db/M0NOM/P
