So I'm guessing there's no takers for any of this stuff?
Ebay it is - if no one minds, I'll list the listing numbers here once done.
Sampsa
On 21 Sep 2011, at 21:19, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
I keep adding keys to my [.SSH2]AUHTHORIZATION.
Some work, some don't is there something specific you need to do to make it all work?
Sampsa
How is the service launched? On Linux (most sane distributions) there
is an rc script who launches the opensshd service. Of course this
depends. All I know about VMS is that it has the staying power of a
herd of elephants.
Which reminds me, why is there a trash can peering into your flat and
taking notes?
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On 15.10.2011 22:23, Mark Benson wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying not to post random questions here, but I have to ask so I can decide if I should put this drive in storage or clean it up and buy a couple of tapes for it.
I have a Compaq DLT4000 series 20/40 GB tape drive (also known as a Tx88 in DEC parlance I think?) in an external cabinet (a big old lump) with HD50 SCSI ports on the back. It's a nice piece of engineering, very much still DEC-esque in it's build quality and no-nonsense construction.
I basically would like to know if it would be supported in either VMS 7.3 on a VAX or VMS 8.3 on an Alpha, and perhaps how to utilise it if it is. I am used to using 'tar' and 'mt' on UNIX but never looked at using tapes *inside* the OS on VMS.
The TZ88 (DLT4000) is fully supported in VMS as per V6.2.
It is very useful as it is capable of reading all the earlier generations DLT tapes.
Just run the cleaning tape and off you go.
Btw. If you want to have a DLT drive repaired (when it just gives errors despite of cleaning), contact me. I can offer you repair service for a very reasonable price.
Kari
The most common utility would be backup. As in:
Backup/image dkao: mka100:saveset.bck
I
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Hi,
I've been trying not to post random questions here, but I have to ask so I can decide if I should put this drive in storage or clean it up and buy a couple of tapes for it.
I have a Compaq DLT4000 series 20/40 GB tape drive (also known as a Tx88 in DEC parlance I think?) in an external cabinet (a big old lump) with HD50 SCSI ports on the back. It's a nice piece of engineering, very much still DEC-esque in it's build quality and no-nonsense construction.
I basically would like to know if it would be supported in either VMS 7.3 on a VAX or VMS 8.3 on an Alpha, and perhaps how to utilise it if it is. I am used to using 'tar' and 'mt' on UNIX but never looked at using tapes *inside* the OS on VMS.
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On 2011-10-15 21.23, Mark Benson wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying not to post random questions here, but I have to ask so I can decide if I should put this drive in storage or clean it up and buy a couple of tapes for it.
I have a Compaq DLT4000 series 20/40 GB tape drive (also known as a Tx88 in DEC parlance I think?) in an external cabinet (a big old lump) with HD50 SCSI ports on the back. It's a nice piece of engineering, very much still DEC-esque in it's build quality and no-nonsense construction.
I basically would like to know if it would be supported in either VMS 7.3 on a VAX or VMS 8.3 on an Alpha, and perhaps how to utilise it if it is. I am used to using 'tar' and 'mt' on UNIX but never looked at using tapes *inside* the OS on VMS.
My guess is that it will work just fine. VMS supports tapes over SCSI, and this is just another tape over SCSI.
As for how yuo use it, that is up to you. BACKUP can write backups to it, or you can initialize and mount it, and just copy files to/from it like any other device (well, not like any other, since tapes have some different characteristics, but it will pretty much work as you would expect). DIR works on such tapes, but you cannot delete files, nor modify existing files.
Or you can just mount it foreign, and do whatever you want on it at a low level with your own programs...
Johnny
Hi,
I've been trying not to post random questions here, but I have to ask so I can decide if I should put this drive in storage or clean it up and buy a couple of tapes for it.
I have a Compaq DLT4000 series 20/40 GB tape drive (also known as a Tx88 in DEC parlance I think?) in an external cabinet (a big old lump) with HD50 SCSI ports on the back. It's a nice piece of engineering, very much still DEC-esque in it's build quality and no-nonsense construction.
I basically would like to know if it would be supported in either VMS 7.3 on a VAX or VMS 8.3 on an Alpha, and perhaps how to utilise it if it is. I am used to using 'tar' and 'mt' on UNIX but never looked at using tapes *inside* the OS on VMS.
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Sean Harney <sharney3 at gmail.com> wrote:
I was looking at: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/partners/airwide/index.html
I had heard that a significant portion of SMS text messages world-wide are
routed via VMS systems. I suppose it might be true since OpenVMS seems to be
used for mobile network infrastructure.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
wrote:
Randomly found this site: http://vms.cc.wmich.edu/www/openvms.html
Nice example of VMS still out in the wild...
Mark.
Hello!
I knew that. I also know that there are a substantial amount of
systems being employed to do strange things.
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On 11/10/11 16:29, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yup, those are 16 bit wide modules: http://www.trademoon.com/Product373313.aspx
On 11 Oct 2011, at 16:27, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Hi Sampsa, have you had any of the BA356 hooked up via a 16-bit/wide personality module?
Are the shelves blue or grey? Can you give me the model number of the shelves? Sorry for being picky, I need the ultrascsi versions...
I'm planning on posting that modem off today.
Mark.
On 10-10-2011 22:42, Mark Benson wrote:
On 10 Oct 2011, at 21:30, Mark Wickens wrote:
I was talking to someone at the DEC Legacy event about the erosion of DEC kit in Universities and Colleges after Microsoft's anti-trust law suit the settlement of which required Microsoft to give away copies of Windows.
DEC didn't follow suit.
Ironic that an anti-trust settlement against Microsoft just ended up with more people running Microsoft software, which locked them into Microsoft upgrade paths.
The same irony of Linux as the supposed 'free and open UNIX/-derivative'
doing the bidding of UNIX against Windows, where in the end Linux almost
exclusively destroyed perfectly good proprietary UNIX distributions (think
of IRIX) on the basis of alleged cost reduction, with Linux in the end
still mostly in the fringes and server niche, just like on day one.
(No, I don't consider Android a proper Linux. It's far too customized and
intertwined with proprietary supplements to be truly considered Linux. It
is not like people consider Mac OS X a typical BSD in that sense either.)
- MG
On 2011-10-12 21:27, Peter Lothberg wrote:
That was a different edition, though, called Bliss-11 and hosted on a
PDP-10.
BLISS-11 was also a differently language too, albeit slightly. When DEC
adopted BLISS they just had to change some of the syntax to make it their
own.
Likewise there was a BLISS-10 and a BLISS-36. And there was a BLISS-32
for VAXen, although AFAIK there was never a cross compiler for that version
and there was never a BLISS-10/11 equivalent for it. BLISS-32 was of
course used fairly extensively for VMS.
Bob
Bliss36 and Bliss32 for vaxen is different than bliss10.. The 32/36 compiler
is the same compiler with different backends..
Hmm. Are you saying that Bliss-36 ran on VMS?
Johnny
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That was a different edition, though, called Bliss-11 and hosted on a
PDP-10.
BLISS-11 was also a differently language too, albeit slightly. When DEC
adopted BLISS they just had to change some of the syntax to make it their
own.
Likewise there was a BLISS-10 and a BLISS-36. And there was a BLISS-32
for VAXen, although AFAIK there was never a cross compiler for that version
and there was never a BLISS-10/11 equivalent for it. BLISS-32 was of
course used fairly extensively for VMS.
Bob
Bliss36 and Bliss32 for vaxen is different than bliss10.. The 32/36 compiler
is the same compiler with different backends..
