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.
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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
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! ?
P.S. Cory now has his own SC40?? I am sooooo jealous :-)
*drool*. <AOL>Me too!</AOL>
Fred
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 12, 2015, at 09:41, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
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?
Bob
P.S. Cory now has his own SC40?? I am sooooo jealous :-)
Yup. ;)
Come hack on it one day if you'd like!
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 12, 2015, at 09:20, Fred <fcoffey at misernet.net> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Image the boot drive from a CompuServe SC-40.
Whoa.
Please keep the list posted on your progress. This is relevant to my interests! :)
Fred
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$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 12, 2015, at 05:07, Peter Lothberg <roll at Stupi.SE> 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"?
Yeah...trying to figure out why it's echoing them back. Can't hurt to drag out a VT420
NSP has a "dir" command.
-P
Unit 00: loading 0003CED0 bytes 00005AA8 syms 000047AC strings ok
[System serial number: 43605]
SC-40 Supervisor Program V1.01
[PFR: Automatic restart in 5 seconds - Hit a key to abort]
[PFR: Automatic restart has been aborted]
NSP>[System serial number: 43605]
?Not confirmed - "[System"
CMD error
NSP>
000001/ 80
NSP>SC-40 Supervisor Program V1.01
?Not confirmed - "SC-40"
CMD error
NSP>
000002/ 04
NSP>
NSP>
000003/ 06
NSP>[PFR: Automatic restart in 5 seconds - Hit a key to abort]
?Not confirmed - "[PFR:"
CMD error
NSP>
000004/ 01
NSP>
NSP>
000005/ 00
NSP>[PFR: Automatic restart has been aborted]
?Not confirmed - "[PFR:"
CMD error
NSP>
000006/ 00
NSP>NSP>[System serial number: 43605]
?Not confirmed - "NSP>[System"
CMD error
NSP>
000007/ 00
NSP>? Command, one of the following:
ASSIGN AUTOBOOT BP
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http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
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?
Bob
P.S. Cory now has his own SC40?? I am sooooo jealous :-)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Image the boot drive from a CompuServe SC-40.
Whoa.
Please keep the list posted on your progress. This is relevant to my interests! :)
Fred
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$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
NSP>? Command, one of the following:
ASSIGN AUTOBOOT BP CH
CLEAR CM CONTINUE COPY
DDT DEASSIGN DEBUG DEFINE
DELETE DEPOSIT DF DIRECTORY
DISCONNECT DN DUMP EN
EXAMINE EXECUTE FILL FORMAT
GET HALT HISTORY IF
IM LCR LCRX LOAD
MARGIN MS OFF ON
PM REBOOT RENAME RESET
REWIND RUN SEARCH SELECT
SET SHOW SHUTDOWN SM
START STEP TAKE TALK
TEST TYPE UNDEFINE WHAT
