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RC2016/10 COMPETITION ENTRY IS OPEN!

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

RC2016/10 COMPETITION ENTRY IS OPEN! I am pleased to announce that Retrochallenge 2016/10 ? the ?October? edition of the Retrochallenge - will run and is now open to entrants! Roll-up Roll-up! Get those thinking caps on and come up with an excellent retro-computing project. Why not? The Retrochallenge 2016/10 competition will run from October 1st to the end of the month. Blog entries should be complete by midnight on Monday 31st October GMT. I would like to extend the warmest welcome to the fantastic John W. Linville who is taking over the running of the October competition and, if he gets the bug, make take the reins for future Retrochallenge Competitions. If you would like to enter please email john using the address ?linville @ /tuxdriver.com?/(removing spaces)//with your name (or handle), a brief synopsis of your project and a URL for your blog. See the website http://retrochallenge.org for more details. ABOUT RETROCHALLENGE In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The event is very much open to interpretation? individuals set there own challenges, which can range from programming to multimedia work; hardware restoration to exploring legacy networking? or just plain dicking around. It really doesn?t matter what you do, just so long as you do it. While the RetroChallenge has its competitive side, it?s not really a contest? it?s more like global thermonuclear war ? everyone can play, but nobody really wins. COMPETITION RULES 1. Retrochallenge commences 1st October 2016 and runs until 31st October 2016. 2. In order to qualify, computer systems must be vintage (this used to be defined as 10 years old, but typically ?vintage? is older than that now ? don?t expect to be accepted if you are using a box capable of running Windows XP for example!). Exceptions will always be made for exotica! 3. Gaming consoles and PDAs qualify if they were made in the previous century. 4. Where appropriate, replica hardware and emulators may be used. 5. Entrants are responsible for adequately documenting their projects and submitting occasional updates during the contest, preferably with an announcement on twitter with #retrochallenge. 6. Projects may encompass any aspect of retro-computing that tickles the fancy of the individual entrant. 7. Winners will be carefully selected and adulation bestowed. 8. Have fun!

9 years, 2 months

Re: [Simh] Publicly available PDP-11/70

by bqt＠softjar.se

On 2016-08-31 02:41, Jeremy Begg wrote: > Hi Johny, > >> Since I occasionally get questions about real machines for reference or >> testing, I figured I should announce that after some work, Update have >> brought their PDP-11/70 back to life, and on line. >> ... >> An HTTP server is also running on the machine, where you can even see a >> picture of the machine serving. (http://magica.update.uu.se) > > Do you turn it off overnight? Just tried to connect to it now (00:42 UTC) > and it's not responding. > > It's an impressive effort nonetheless :-) I accidentally crashed it a couple of hours ago. :-( It will be rebooted tomorrow, when someone can pass it by physically. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

9 years, 2 months

Update my tunnel IP please

by b4＠gewt.net

Hey, Tried updating the DNS record a couple weeks ago and that didn't bring any tunnels up - current static-for-quite-awhile IP is 50.131.218.138. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects

9 years, 2 months

Publicly available PDP-11/70

by bqt＠softjar.se

Since I occasionally get questions about real machines for reference or testing, I figured I should announce that after some work, Update have brought their PDP-11/70 back to life, and on line. It is accessible from HECnet as MAGICA:: and on the Internet as Magica.Update.UU.SE. telnet is listening on both port 23 and 10023. ftp is listening on both port 21 and 10021. An HTTP server is also running on the machine, where you can even see a picture of the machine serving. (http://magica.update.uu.se) A guest account is available on the machine, and people are free to request accounts of their own as well. The machine as such is a PDP-11/70 running RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 with some improvements, with (at the moment) one UDA-50, one RL-11, and one DELUA. Four RA73 disks, one RL02 disk, and the console terminal. 3.5 Meg of memory and an FPP. I try to keep as many tools as I have available on Magica. So you have both PDP-11 C and DECUS C. BASIC+2, F77, Datatrieve, Oregon Pascal, XLISP, BCPL, FMS-11, Kermit-11, ZEMU, Mail-11, RATFIV, PDP-11 Symbolic Debugger, RTEM-11, Sort/Merge, as well as DECnet and my TCP/IP. Feel free to play around, experiment, play games, or whatever (most Infocom games are there as well). But please behave. If anyone have questions, I am happy to answer them. On the web page served, there is also a link to a bunch of manuals for RSX, networking and layered products. And just for completeness sake, in addition to Magica, Update is also running MIM, which is an emulated PDP-11/74 with pretty much the same software setup, but of course way faster. Only one CPU online though, since the 11/74 emulation in E11 have some bugs that cause it to be unstable when I bring additional CPUs online. (The RSX manuals are actually served by Mim.) I hope people will find it interesting/useful/amusing. Johnny

9 years, 2 months

EISNER account problems

by sampsa＠mac.com

Guys, Does anybody know anyone over at EISNER? I?m trying to prove my identity, for some stupid reason I apparently accidentally registered two accounts and used an SSH public key to log into the one I use so I have no idea what the password is and EISNER is no longer accepting my SSH logins. Sampsa

9 years, 2 months

DEC Legacy Event, 15-16 October 2016, Windermere, UK PDP VAX Alpha VMS RSX

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Greetings It's oh so quiet, shh.., shh.. Just a reminder that DEC Legacy is on this October again! Come make some noise! Tickets can be purchased either direct from the DEC Legacy website: http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/register or via the eBay listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331937152752 Would be great to see some old faces and some new ones! Regards, Mark.

9 years, 2 months

Layered products for OpenVMS

by fcoffey＠misernet.net

Afternoon all ... Is there a VMS layered product repository available on HECNET ? There was some discussion on c.o.v. about LSEDIT, and I'd to play around with that. I emailed the OpenVMS Customer Lab about getting FTP access to layered products as a hobbyist, but they say since OpenVMS 8.3 is EOL, they won't provide the link. I did not think layered products were version specific? I suppose I could upgrade my DS10 to a more recent version, but that seems like a lot just to play with a layered product. Fred --- $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928) %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels

9 years, 3 months

Bridge contact lost

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

Hello, I?ve lost connection to Update so my area is off-hook. Am I the only one having problems?

9 years, 3 months

URL for Ask the Wizard

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: >Hi all, > > I was trying to search the "Ask the Wizard" archive, but HP seems to ha= >ve screwed up the URL so that it points to HPE's OpenVMS info page, but can= >'t find a link to the Wizard index. > > > Anyone know of a mirror for "Ask the Wizard" or a short cut url to the = >working old url or to a new HPE url? > > > Thanks in advance. Hoff wrote most of those responses. He may have them on hit site and or a link to where they've landed at HPE.com -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

9 years, 3 months

URL for Ask the Wizard

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: >Was trying to find a wizard article on restricting which accounts can login= > via telnet. > >I use multinet and OpenVMS 8.3. > > >Would like to allow only a few captive accounts to login via telnet and for= >ce all others to use SSH (or console). > > >Since I figured this is been done before, it would be in Ask the Wizard ind= >ex. I don't know about Multinet but under TCPIP Services, TELNET is REMOTE and SSH is LOCAL. You can easily restrict accounts based upon that. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

9 years, 3 months

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