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
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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
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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
On 10/30/2012 01:54 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
My plans are to put (probably) an RA90 on it and run VMS...and then
pet it lovingly. :-)
What's the latest version of VMS that'll run on a 750?
The last officially-supported release is 6.2, but I don't know if
support was actually *removed* or not. The last release I ran on an
11/750 was 5.2. (when it was current, agh!)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 30 Oct 2012, at 01:49, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 12:35 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Does the 11/750 work?
Not yet, but it's close.
How close? What're your plans once she's operational again?
Well I know it's complete except for a few mechanical bits...the front
door latch, the card cage cover, and both back doors are missing.
Beyond that, it was represented to me as being functional at last
powerup when it was given to me. The TU58 capstan roller has surely
turned to a gooey mess by now, but I'll take care of that.
My plans are to put (probably) an RA90 on it and run VMS...and then
pet it lovingly. :-)
What's the latest version of VMS that'll run on a 750?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 30 Oct 2012, at 01:47, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 12:33 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Speaking of which I need to buy a couple 1TB and 2TB drives to
implement RAID. Don't want to lose disk mages of netware or my Ultrix
install named bonerhitler (don't ask) (anyone know where I could get
a license pak for Ultrix or know how to configure DECnet on it?)
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.
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?
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?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 12:35 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Does the 11/750 work?
Not yet, but it's close.
How close? What're your plans once she's operational again?
Well I know it's complete except for a few mechanical bits...the front
door latch, the card cage cover, and both back doors are missing.
Beyond that, it was represented to me as being functional at last
powerup when it was given to me. The TU58 capstan roller has surely
turned to a gooey mess by now, but I'll take care of that.
My plans are to put (probably) an RA90 on it and run VMS...and then
pet it lovingly. :-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/30/2012 12:33 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Speaking of which I need to buy a couple 1TB and 2TB drives to
implement RAID. Don't want to lose disk mages of netware or my Ultrix
install named bonerhitler (don't ask) (anyone know where I could get
a license pak for Ultrix or know how to configure DECnet on it?)
Boner Hitler??
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.
For long-term reliable online (as opposed to tape) data storage, look
into ZFS.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 30 Oct 2012, at 01:43, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/30/2012 12:27 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Yeah, archiving this stuff would be a great idea. Dump them all in a
format we'll all be able to read in a few years and store it on say,
amazon glacier. Who would want anything less than advertised eleven
nines for storing email?
I dunno, I'd want something more than storing it on someone else's
hardware. Especially when that someone else is a huge corporation,
subject to corporate whims. Your data could go away at any time.
So, backup to your tape library? :p
Yes. But this one:
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/DECporn/DSC_0789.JPG
Yeah, I think that would be the better tape library to use. ;)
...not this one:
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/DECporn/DSC_0790.JPG
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Ahh, good thinking. See if you can score an extra! =)
-Dave
On 10/30/2012 12:07 AM, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
Yeah but they go for stupid prices - some dude in Tozhno won't have any clue what the thing is worth on ebay :)
On 30 Oct 2012, at 06:05, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/29/2012 11:38 PM, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
I'd love one of those crazy Soviet PDP-11 clones they made home computers out of, I think the brand was Elektronika or something.
Might have to put my uncle in St Pete on a hunting mission.
They show up on eBay with some regularity. They're supposed to be
really nice machines.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
