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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hi folks! I think I'm acquainted with some of you, but for those who don't know me from other places, my name is Dave McGuire, and I'm a DECaholic. =) I'm a DEC hack from way back, having cut my teeth on a PDP-11/34a running RSX-11M and later RSTS/E almost thirty years ago. Years ago I was a commercial VMS sysadmin. PDP-11s and RSTS/E are my biggest passions, but I'm basically a fan of most things DEC. For a living, I'm an embedded systems developer; I design hardware and write firmware. I recently acquired a commercial building near Pittsburgh, and am slowly constructing a "living" computer museum here. I'm working on the nonprofit paperwork now, and hope to have it open to the public in a year or so. I have lots of fun hardware here; several PDP-8s, countless PDP-11s and VAXen, two PDP-10s, some big IBM iron, several Cray supercomputers, and many more. Many of them are functional, more every day as I get more "oscilloscope time". Brian Hechinger and Sridhar Ayengar are old friends of mine, and they've mentioned HECnet to me several times over the years, but now it's time. I have a Cisco 7206VXR with DECnet enabled, Brian helped me out by allocating area #61, and I'm running two DECnet-connected machines 24x7: my desktop machine running Linux and an AlphaServer DS10L running VMS. I run other machines as time permits. So...Can I play too? :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

13 years, 3 months

Setting up Bridge?

by wonko＠4amlunch.net

On 3/5/2012 11:10 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote: At 9:29 AM -0500 3/5/12, Brian Hechinger wrote: On 3/3/2012 9:05 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: Does anything need to be setup on tempo.update.uu.se? Yes. They need to add you on that end. Guess this is what I get for not having a system online on HECnet for a couple years. :-) Which is why you asked. :-D I'm currently trying to get VAX/VMS v5.5 running under SIMH, which I in turn have running under Ubuntu 11.10 which is running in Parallels Desktop 7 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (I suspect I might be crazy for trying that combo). Why not just run simh directly on OSX? Can the Mac telnet/ssh into the SIMH emulator if it's running directly on SIMH? Besides by running under Parallels, I can do things like suspend the emulation if I need to free up resources on my Mac. I don't see why not. The suspending thing is definitely nice, but it's not like it's that hard to shut down VMS. :-D On a positive note, I figured out how to get networking working, and currently have it running OpenVMS 7.3 and TCPIP. OTOH, SIMH blows up when I try to FTP the latest Multinet release into SIMH. Well, that's good news anyway. :-D As to it blowing up, that's less good. :-/ -brian

13 years, 3 months

Setting up Bridge?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 9:29 AM -0500 3/5/12, Brian Hechinger wrote: On 3/3/2012 9:05 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: Does anything need to be setup on tempo.update.uu.se? Yes. They need to add you on that end. Guess this is what I get for not having a system online on HECnet for a couple years. :-) I'm currently trying to get VAX/VMS v5.5 running under SIMH, which I in turn have running under Ubuntu 11.10 which is running in Parallels Desktop 7 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (I suspect I might be crazy for trying that combo). Why not just run simh directly on OSX? Can the Mac telnet/ssh into the SIMH emulator if it's running directly on SIMH? Besides by running under Parallels, I can do things like suspend the emulation if I need to free up resources on my Mac. On a positive note, I figured out how to get networking working, and currently have it running OpenVMS 7.3 and TCPIP. OTOH, SIMH blows up when I try to FTP the latest Multinet release into SIMH. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

13 years, 3 months

Setting up Bridge?

by wonko＠4amlunch.net

On 3/3/2012 9:05 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: I really hate to admit this, but it's been so long since I've run the bridge, that I don't remember how to start it. I know there is a new version, I've downloaded it and built it. Does anything need to be setup on tempo.update.uu.se? Yes. They need to add you on that end. I'm currently trying to get VAX/VMS v5.5 running under SIMH, which I in turn have running under Ubuntu 11.10 which is running in Parallels Desktop 7 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (I suspect I might be crazy for trying that combo). Why not just run simh directly on OSX? -brian

13 years, 3 months

Setting up Bridge?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

I really hate to admit this, but it's been so long since I've run the bridge, that I don't remember how to start it. I know there is a new version, I've downloaded it and built it. Does anything need to be setup on tempo.update.uu.se? I'm currently trying to get VAX/VMS v5.5 running under SIMH, which I in turn have running under Ubuntu 11.10 which is running in Parallels Desktop 7 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (I suspect I might be crazy for trying that combo). Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

13 years, 3 months

Re: Any interest in Alpha software/documentation from March 2003?

by marc＠bluevine.net

On 12/1/11 8:05 PM, Marc Chametzky wrote: I've got a box of software and documentation CDs for AlphaVMS. I can send them to someone who wants them or perhaps just even put them online for people. I'm going to be migrating my virtual machines around and DUSTY will, at that point, no longer be running all the time. So, for those who may want to get these ISO files while I've got them temporarily around, please write to me directly and I'll give you a pointer. --Marc

13 years, 3 months

VAX lisp anyone?

by setala＠gmail.com

Great! Thanks. --Saku You can pick it up from: ftp.endlesssoftware.com.au/pub/misc/lisp Regards, Tim.

13 years, 3 months

VAX lisp anyone?

by tim.sneddon＠bigpond.com

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 00:07 +0200, Saku Set l wrote: My friend was requesting VAX LISP and I can't locate it from my VMS archives, does anyone have it available? You can pick it up from: ftp.endlesssoftware.com.au/pub/misc/lisp Regards, Tim.

13 years, 3 months

VAX lisp anyone?

by setala＠gmail.com

Mid 80's I guess On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 00:14, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: At 12:07 AM +0200 3/2/12, Saku Set l wrote: My friend was requesting VAX LISP and I can't locate it from my VMS archives, does anyone have it available? What timeframe was it available? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

13 years, 3 months

VAX lisp anyone?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 12:07 AM +0200 3/2/12, Saku Set l wrote: My friend was requesting VAX LISP and I can't locate it from my VMS archives, does anyone have it available? What timeframe was it available? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

13 years, 3 months

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