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UK based people - we must go to this (Vintage Computer Festival UK)

by sampsa＠mac.com

Steve, Do you know how I could write a bit-by-bit image to a floppy using VMS? I need to create a floppy from an image file and the only machine i have around to do it with is CHIMPY. Sampsa On 31 May 2010, at 14:37, Steve Davidson wrote: Sampsa, It doesn't mention HECnet by name on the website. If you can arrange it, maybe put in a HECnet gateway there. Just the gateway, nothing else. I will commit to bringing all of my systems (and clusters) up for that weekend. None of the machines here are newer than 1993 and that includes the Alpha's. The earliest hardware that can be on the net is circa 1985. Everything here is DEC and only DEC not Compaq and certainly not HP. This means that the only thing that will be available will be actual hardware (from this end). I could (maybe) have up to 15 machines running by then. I can see that electric meter move now - probably faster than it ever has! I can bring up PDP-11's, VAXen, and Alpha's. I did not publish this to the list intentionally. Let me know if I need to be able to bring everything up. Also, all of the various gateways should be stable by then so we can really show something. Maybe show how vintage systems can still communicate in the current world with current hardware. -Steve From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine Sent: Mon 5/31/2010 08:52 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] UK based people - we must go to this (Vintage Computer Festival UK) Guys, Check this out: http://www.tnmoc.org/vcf-gb.aspx Maybe we could get HECnet involved somehow? Or are we already doing this and I've totally missed the boat on it all? Sampsa

15 years, 10 months

FW: [HECnet] UK based people - we must go to this (Vintage Computer Festival UK)

by jeep＠scshome.net

Sampsa, It doesn't mention HECnet by name on the website. If you can arrange it, maybe put in a HECnet gateway there. Just the gateway, nothing else. I will commit to bringing all of my systems (and clusters) up for that weekend. None of the machines here are newer than 1993 and that includes the Alpha's. The earliest hardware that can be on the net is circa 1985. Everything here is DEC and only DEC not Compaq and certainly not HP. This means that the only thing that will be available will be actual hardware (from this end). I could (maybe) have up to 15 machines running by then. I can see that electric meter move now - probably faster than it ever has! I can bring up PDP-11's, VAXen, and Alpha's. I did not publish this to the list intentionally. Let me know if I need to be able to bring everything up. Also, all of the various gateways should be stable by then so we can really show something. Maybe show how vintage systems can still communicate in the current world with current hardware. -Steve From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Sampsa Laine Sent: Mon 5/31/2010 08:52 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] UK based people - we must go to this (Vintage Computer Festival UK) Guys, Check this out: http://www.tnmoc.org/vcf-gb.aspx Maybe we could get HECnet involved somehow? Or are we already doing this and I've totally missed the boat on it all? Sampsa

15 years, 10 months

UK based people - we must go to this (Vintage Computer Festival UK)

by sampsa＠mac.com

Guys, Check this out: http://www.tnmoc.org/vcf-gb.aspx Maybe we could get HECnet involved somehow? Or are we already doing this and I've totally missed the boat on it all? Sampsa

15 years, 10 months

BETA: New PHONE directory service

by sampsa＠mac.com

Gentlemen, I've rolled up a bit of Linux DECNET C code and some bash scripts to do a PHONE DIR on all the nodes on HECNET (well at least the ones FIDOGW is aware of, I periodically update it's node database from MIM). The results are then copied to the Apache server running on RHESUS, where you can now get a nice quick glance as to who is logged in on HECnet, all in one place: http://rhesus.sampsa.com/hecnetdir.html Comments and feedback are welcome, if you wish your node(s) to be excluded from the scan, let me know. Sampsa

15 years, 10 months

CHARON is back up...

by sampsa＠mac.com

No problems, I thought I had broken something on my end - been messing with the config no end. Sampsa On 29 May 2010, at 04:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: Sampsa - I rebooted and now I can connect to GORVAX. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Bob -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 10:35 AM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] CHARON is back up... Guys, That was obviously not meant for the whole list, sorry about that... Sampsa On 28 May 2010, at 17:15, Sampsa Laine wrote: Bob, I've been messing with my MULTINET setup on my side, can you still connect CHARON to GORVAX? Sampsa On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: ... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else. Bob

15 years, 10 months

CHARON is back up...

by bob＠jfcl.com

Sampsa - I rebooted and now I can connect to GORVAX. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Bob -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 10:35 AM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] CHARON is back up... Guys, That was obviously not meant for the whole list, sorry about that... Sampsa On 28 May 2010, at 17:15, Sampsa Laine wrote: Bob, I've been messing with my MULTINET setup on my side, can you still connect CHARON to GORVAX? Sampsa On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: ... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else. Bob

15 years, 10 months

CHARON is back up...

by sampsa＠mac.com

Guys, That was obviously not meant for the whole list, sorry about that... Sampsa On 28 May 2010, at 17:15, Sampsa Laine wrote: Bob, I've been messing with my MULTINET setup on my side, can you still connect CHARON to GORVAX? Sampsa On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: ... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else. Bob

15 years, 10 months

CHARON is back up...

by sampsa＠mac.com

Bob, I've been messing with my MULTINET setup, so have seemed to have lost my link from GORVAX to you. Any chance you can reboot it to see if the link comes back up? Sampsa On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: ... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else. Bob

15 years, 10 months

CHARON is back up...

by sampsa＠mac.com

Bob, I've been messing with my MULTINET setup on my side, can you still connect CHARON to GORVAX? Sampsa On 4 Jan 2010, at 16:26, Bob Armstrong wrote: ... with a new DSL modem installed. Only the links to DUSTY and STUPI came up - I don't know what happened to everybody else. Bob

15 years, 10 months

hecnet.eu

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Hi Guys, http://hecnet.eu is up and running - not much up there, but there is more to come! Johnny - can I duplicate your information on this site? It's running on an OpenVMS box connected to hecnet, the site is generated using the utility asctohtm to encourage you guys to make a contribution. Asctohtm runs on the VAX and can process very simply formatted ASCII into a nice looking webpage - perfect for adding content by using a VAX/PDP box and then copying it via hecnet onto the target. I'd also like to get a script running to determine the active state of the network, and in the long run a bit of client site charting to produce a network diagram. In the first instance I'd like email suggestions of content please (or you can email me actual content). The idea in the long run is to create a batch job that will scan the decnet default directory and pickup contributions to put on the wall by automatically converting the ascii files into HTML. I'd also like to create an online tutorial/faq to walk people through the basic decnet/bridge setup as well as point out any common issues. Lots of ideas in the pipeline - we did talk about issuing @hecnet.eu email address which would automatically get piped through a SMTP gateway - which would also be very nice. It'd also be nice to get some bios & backgrounds on people using hecnet - sometimes even though it's a big network it can feel a bit lonely! Regards, Mark

15 years, 10 months

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