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Quiet list and a question about setting up a system

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

At 7:54 PM -0400 6/23/08, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Is it me, or is this list suddenly acting like a night out in the country? (Hint, I hear crickets, and I've not seen a post in months.) This list tends to be long periods of nothing along with short bursts of traffic. Okay now the Question: How would I go about configuring a PDP-11 (SimH or E11) to talk to the HECNET? And which OS is prefrered? Personally I'd look at E11, but then it has been so long since I played seriously with SIMH that the network support had just been added, and I believe it works pretty good now. SIMH has the advantage of no limitations, but is likely to be the best bet, and it is faster. As for an OS, I'd prefer to see you running RSTS/E, but I don't think that is what you mean! :^) If I were to be serious for a second, I'd have to recommend RSX-11M or RSX-11M+, as their DECnet implementations are considerably less persnickety. Additionally I don't think many people have managed to get DECnet/E running under either E11 or SIMH. But then I had a hard enough time getting it running on real hardware. I do not have a router or Cisco designed gizmo who's stable enough to support the protocols that we are discussing here, however. I'm guessing any old Pentium class would work here. A 486 might not be able to push the data through Johnny's bridge fast enough. I'm not sure that anyone is currently running a Cisco router you could connect to anyway. Zane -- | 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/ |

17 years, 2 months

Quiet list and a question about setting up a system

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

Hello! Is it me, or is this list suddenly acting like a night out in the country? (Hint, I hear crickets, and I've not seen a post in months.) Okay now the Question: How would I go about configuring a PDP-11 (SimH or E11) to talk to the HECNET? And which OS is prefrered? I do not have a router or Cisco designed gizmo who's stable enough to support the protocols that we are discussing here, however. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway."

17 years, 2 months

Major House Cleaning

by john＠guntersville.net

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

17 years, 3 months

Major House Cleaning

by john＠guntersville.net

17 years, 3 months

Zarqon down

by bob＠jfcl.com

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

17 years, 4 months

Zarqon down

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

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 -- | 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/ |

17 years, 4 months

Zarqon down

by bob＠jfcl.com

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

17 years, 4 months

Zarqon down

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

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 -- | 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/ |

17 years, 4 months

Zarqon down

by bbump＠rsts.org

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

17 years, 4 months

Zarqon down

by bob＠jfcl.com

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

17 years, 4 months

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