On 8 Jun 2012, at 02:35, Dave McGuire wrote:
Dave outside your door is a well dressed gentleman in a
suit that looks like something a certain outrageous poet and author
wore, and has hair to match. (Hint: its the same daft stuff I
sometimes pull on Sampsa.) There's also a blue colored box
outside.........
Ok, you lost me there, my friend.
Welcome to the world of strange Dr Who references..
Sampsa
On 2012-06-08 10:06, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 8 Jun 2012, at 00:10, Dave McGuire wrote:
Of course it'd be preferable in a dozen ways to have the native
kernel-based DECnet support continue to be maintained, alongside IPv4,
IPv6, etc where it belongs...but if we can't find anyone to do that
work, we'll have to solve the problem some other way, when it actually
becomes a problem.
The upside of this solution is that it's relatively portable though - I'd love to have a DECNET stack on my OS X boxes, for example (in fact as mentioned before latd DOES work on OS X as it's kinda implemented in a similar way)..
Which reminds me that I should work on/write a replacement lat suite, since the version out there today have some bugs. I've tried looking at it, but I'm just not into C++, or able to penetrate the code enough.
Anyway, using the lat client program supplied, connecting to RSX, it seems like it breaks the lat protocol sometimes. And unfortunately, the RSX LAT server have a bug triggered by the free lat implementation, in which the session gets lost, and as a result some memory is lost in RSX. This eventually cause the system to crash because no more free memory is available in DECnet.
Johnny
On 2012-06-08 09:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/08/2012 03:55 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50.
You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50
compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI.
The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case,
it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of
those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.
Yes, it should.
See http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CGYQFjA…
(Page 5)
Johnny
On 8 Jun 2012, at 00:10, Dave McGuire wrote:
Of course it'd be preferable in a dozen ways to have the native
kernel-based DECnet support continue to be maintained, alongside IPv4,
IPv6, etc where it belongs...but if we can't find anyone to do that
work, we'll have to solve the problem some other way, when it actually
becomes a problem.
The upside of this solution is that it's relatively portable though - I'd love to have a DECNET stack on my OS X boxes, for example (in fact as mentioned before latd DOES work on OS X as it's kinda implemented in a similar way)..
Sampsa
On 06/08/2012 03:55 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50.
You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50
compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI.
The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case,
it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of
those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 2012-06-08 09:31, Mark Benson wrote:
On 8 Jun 2012, at 08:23, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50.
You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50 compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI.
Johnny
On 06/08/2012 03:39 AM, Kari Uusim ki wrote:
There is a DECnet stack for DOS and Windows in the Pathworks V5 or V6
client kit. Those versions were meant to be used on Windows'es before
Windows NT4. Then the Pathworks32 kit was released and that could be
used on WNT4.0 and Windows 2000. Maybe on XP as well. Don't remember for
sure.
Is this the same as DECnet-DOS? I ran that a long time ago. Does
anyone have a copy? It included drivers for that weird DEC ISA Ethernet
card, the DEPCA, which was a full-length 8-bit board that also included
(strangely) a mouse interface.
If not exactly the same, but a newer (and possibly enhanced) version. I
didn't deal with the PCSA versions (< V4.1) so I don't know about them.
Unfortunately I don't have the V4.1 either. Just the V5 and V6, which
were distributed on CD's.
Anyhow, the V5 or V6 DECnet stack should work on MS-DOS V5 and newer. I
don't remember if it was possible to install on older DOS versions. The
client medium has the supported adapter drivers (like DEPCA) included.
Neat!
Yes, indeed, I also have one or two DEPCA's somewhere. I think the mouse
port was meant for the DEC workstation mouse ("hockey puck") as PC mice
were serial port attached.
Yes, there were drivers in some packages that recognized those puck
mice with the DEPCA's controller. I ran Ventura Publisher (the GEM
version, pre-Windows port, under DOS 3.3) that way for a long time. It
worked well.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 8.6.2012 1:58, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 06/07/2012 12:11 PM, Kari Uusim ki wrote:
There is a DECnet stack for DOS and Windows in the Pathworks V5 or V6
client kit. Those versions were meant to be used on Windows'es before
Windows NT4. Then the Pathworks32 kit was released and that could be
used on WNT4.0 and Windows 2000. Maybe on XP as well. Don't remember for
sure.
Is this the same as DECnet-DOS? I ran that a long time ago. Does
anyone have a copy? It included drivers for that weird DEC ISA Ethernet
card, the DEPCA, which was a full-length 8-bit board that also included
(strangely) a mouse interface.
-Dave
If not exactly the same, but a newer (and possibly enhanced) version. I didn't deal with the PCSA versions (< V4.1) so I don't know about them. Unfortunately I don't have the V4.1 either. Just the V5 and V6, which were distributed on CD's.
Anyhow, the V5 or V6 DECnet stack should work on MS-DOS V5 and newer. I don't remember if it was possible to install on older DOS versions. The client medium has the supported adapter drivers (like DEPCA) included.
Yes, indeed, I also have one or two DEPCA's somewhere. I think the mouse port was meant for the DEC workstation mouse ("hockey puck") as PC mice were serial port attached.
Kari
On 06/08/2012 03:31 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
On 8 Jun 2012, at 08:23, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I
have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you
know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the
next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion!
I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive?
TK70 drives can read, but not write, TK50 tapes. I have several TK70
drives as well...that is my backup plan. (no pun intended! ;))
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
There are copies of WordPerfect for Solaris currently available on ebay UK.
I asked the question about WordPerfect for VMS on comp.os.vms - turns out there is a company still selling it. However, when I mentioned I was a hobbyist the communications went silent.
Mark.
Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/07/2012 11:37 PM, Boyanich, Alastair wrote:
> There was wordperfect on VMS? Wow.
>
> I used to use the shared version of it on SCO in the early 90's. I
> didn't know there was a VMS version. That'd be interesting to see.
There was even a version for SunOS, with a fairly respectable WYSIWYG
GUI. I used that quite a bit Back In The Day(tm). I think I still have
it somewhere.
Those binaries will likely run under current Solaris on UltraSPARC;
I've been amazed at the degree of both architectural and ABI
compatibility between BSD-based SunOS 4 and SysV-based Solaris.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
