On 02/12/2015 12:23 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Console TRANSMIT is fine...but RECEIVE is receiving gibberish from my
end...can't figure out why. ? works, every other symbol is either | } or
w or y.
Makes it a liiiiiittle hard to boot.
Sigh... I suspect the standard problems. Check your character length,
parity, stop bits...
Have people totally forgotten how to use a serial line???
Please give Cory a bit more credit than that, man. Seriously. This
guy has gotten some truly outlandish systems up and running in no time
with almost no assistance. He wrangles serial lines with the best of 'em.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Fred wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You haven't loaded a different message file? You can do that in VMS,
and there is this classic april fools message file that I wouldn't be
surprised if it holds that fish message...
To my knowledge, no - whatever ships with 8.3 is what is there, although I'm
not sure how to tell.
However, at $previous_job where they ran OpenVMS in production and I
had access to DCL, the DS15 ran 8.3 and that is where I originally discovered
this easter egg. I can't believe they would have had anything other than the
standard message file.
My IA64 OVMS 8.4 test system also has this message in the standard message file.
I wonder what facility returns status this and possibly other equally interesting status values... :-)
Poking around a bit yields another interesting one:
WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (3000)
%SYSTEM-W-REMINDER, Andy, remember to turn off the lights when you leave...
How did this diversion get injected into this discussion?
Fred, is this merely part of one of your signatures?
- Mark
On 2015-02-12 17:27, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Peter Lothberg wrote:
Need a little help with the boot process. THis is the output...it hangs
afterwards.
It looks like you are echoing the characters from the console back to
itself, "half duplex"?
Alright. It loaded microcode now! 16MWord!
However...
Console TRANSMIT is fine...but RECEIVE is receiving gibberish from my
end...can't figure out why. ? works, every other symbol is either | } or
w or y.
Makes it a liiiiiittle hard to boot.
Sigh... I suspect the standard problems. Check your character length, parity, stop bits...
Have people totally forgotten how to use a serial line???
Johnny
> I tried every one my 420 offers...not all shown in video though
What kind of console terminal plug is on the SC40? Are you sure your cable is wired correctly? I ve seen this kind of funny business happen when the ground was swapped with the data pins that s not uncommon with homemade MMJ cables.
Bob
Check later on, I tried every one my 420 offers...not all shown in video though
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:15, Jim Carpenter <jim at deitygraveyard.com> wrote:
On Feb 12, 2015 12:11 PM, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LAPAwzoeiQ > > Here's a video of what it does. > >
Typing some letters works but others don't? Check your parity.
Jim
On Feb 12, 2015 12:11 PM, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LAPAwzoeiQ > > Here's a video of what it does. > >
Typing some letters works but others don't? Check your parity.
Jim
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Console TRANSMIT is fine...but RECEIVE is receiving gibberish from my
end...can't figure out why. ? works, every other symbol is either | } or
w or y.
Makes it a liiiiiittle hard to boot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LAPAwzoeiQ
Here's a video of what it does.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Peter Lothberg wrote:
Need a little help with the boot process. THis is the output...it hangs
afterwards.
It looks like you are echoing the characters from the console back to
itself, "half duplex"?
Alright. It loaded microcode now! 16MWord!
However...
Console TRANSMIT is fine...but RECEIVE is receiving gibberish from my
end...can't figure out why. ? works, every other symbol is either | } or
w or y.
Makes it a liiiiiittle hard to boot.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You haven't loaded a different message file? You can do that in VMS, and there is this classic april fools message file that I wouldn't be surprised if it holds that fish message...
To my knowledge, no - whatever ships with 8.3 is what is there, although I'm not sure how to tell.
However, at $previous_job where they ran OpenVMS in production and I had access to DCL, the DS15 ran 8.3 and that is where I originally discovered this easter egg. I can't believe they would have had anything other than the standard message file.
Fred
On 2015-02-12 16:22, Fred wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Robert Armstrong wrote:
Hmm... On OVMS 7.1 I get the standard " %SYSTEM-W-NOMSG, Message number
00000B70". Did you just make this up, or is the really an Easter Egg in
some version of VMS?
I swear I did not make this up:
MISER$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
MISER$ show sys /noproc
OpenVMS V8.3 on node MISER 12-FEB-2015 10:19:47.86 Uptime 70 13:37:37
However, on 7.3:
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
%SYSTEM-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000B70
$ show sys/noproc
OpenVMS V7.3 on node FRUGAL 12-FEB-2015 10:20:56.80 Uptime 70 11:00:39
Looks like 8.3 is required! ?
You haven't loaded a different message file? You can do that in VMS, and there is this classic april fools message file that I wouldn't be surprised if it holds that fish message...
Johnny
