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New service on CHIMPY - Emulated Altair Z80 running MP/M

by sampsa＠mac.com

Guys, just in case any of you fancy a play, I've installed MP/M II V2.1 on a SIMH Altair Z80 emulator. It's accessible through CHIMPY by logging in as ALTAIR. There are a number of floppy drives (write locked) and a hard drive (writeable) as follows: A: System Disk B: Multiplan C: VEDIT D: WordStar E: Games I: Writeable hard drive. Let me know how it's working!. Sampsa

16 years, 5 months

HECnet Node Listing

by bob＠jfcl.com

Marc Chametzky wrote: http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Downloads/DCN%20Node%20List.pdf DUSTY and CALHAN appear to have the wrong addresses ... I'd also like to add 2.212 as LULU, a Personal Alpha running OpenVMS ... Ok, I've updated these things on the list. Bob

16 years, 5 months

HECnet Node Listing

by bqt＠softjar.se

Marc Chametzky wrote: http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Downloads/DCN%20Node%20List.pdf Looking at this list, last updated in August 2008, I notice that my systems, DUSTY and CALHAN appear to have the wrong addresses. They are 2.210 and 2.211, respectively. The NCP database on LEGATO has them correct. I'd also like to add 2.212 as LULU, a Personal Alpha running OpenVMS V8.3. I haven't yet decided where I'm going to run LULU, either in my VMware Fusion system on occasion, or as part of my "trailing-zone" environment in ESXi. I've added LULU on MIM now. I thought I'd take this chance to make two comments. 1. Nodenames in DECnet phase IV are actually local to each machine, so there is no strict requirement that we all have the same view on the name to address mappings. That said, it sure helps if we do, so I try to keep MIM up to date, and others can copy the nodename database from there (in VMS, you just do a "NCP COPY KNOWN NODES FROM MIM TO BOTH", if someone wants to know how you do in RSX, write me a mail. :-) ) 2. In addition to the nodename database, I also keep a plaintext file with both nodenames people use, and nodenames people have asked to be reserved. You can find that at MIM::US:[DECNET]NODENAMES.ALL In the same directory I also have a DECNET.TXT file, which have a list of all areas allocated, and by whom. (And the file from sparetimesgizmos is not my creation or responsibility, so I can't make any changes in that.) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

16 years, 5 months

HECnet Node Listing

by bqt＠softjar.se

16 years, 5 months

HECnet Node Listing

by marc＠bluevine.net

http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Downloads/DCN%20Node%20List.pdf Looking at this list, last updated in August 2008, I notice that my systems, DUSTY and CALHAN appear to have the wrong addresses. They are 2.210 and 2.211, respectively. The NCP database on LEGATO has them correct. I'd also like to add 2.212 as LULU, a Personal Alpha running OpenVMS V8.3. I haven't yet decided where I'm going to run LULU, either in my VMware Fusion system on occasion, or as part of my "trailing-zone" environment in ESXi. --Marc

16 years, 5 months

Change off gateway domain from CHIMPYMAIL.SAMPSA.COM to CHIMPYMAIL.COM

by sampsa＠mac.com

Just a quick update: I've registered the domain CHIMPYMAIL.COM for use as a hecnet mail gateway. The format of the messages is the same, i.e. incoming mail should be addressed to: <HOST>::<USER>@chimpymail.com Outgoing mail remains the same, i.e.: CHIMPY::smtp%"user at example.com" Sampsa

16 years, 6 months

Powerchute or similar?

by marc＠bluevine.net

I want to say that there was some freeware utility, perhaps on the DECUS tapes throughout the years, that offered very basic UPS monitoring. If I remember correctly, a UPS that's having a power-fault would drop DTE or something like that, allowing a program to monitor the serial port for a hangup, and then do whatever (presumably start a countdown before taking action to see if DTE is raised again). I don't know whether the current models do anything that basic any longer. --Marc

16 years, 6 months

Powerchute or similar?

by uusimaki＠exdecfinland.org

Fred wrote: Good afternoon ... Would anyone have a piece of software that would run on OpenVMS Alpha that could monitor an APC Smart-UPS via a serial port? I moved some equipment around and now have one UPS that ended up not being monitored, and I'd like to have the Alpha monitor it (and run shutdown.com on low battery). I did a little googling around but couldn't find anything. I've seen Powerchute for VAX but it had a rather obscene price tag attached to it. Cheers, MISER::FRED :) . The only UPS monitoring software for OpenVMS Alpha I know of is for Exide (aka Powerware) UPS's. Don't know if it would work with other UPS's as well. Regards, Kari

16 years, 6 months

Powerchute or similar?

by fcoffey＠thrifty.misernet.net

Good afternoon ... Would anyone have a piece of software that would run on OpenVMS Alpha that could monitor an APC Smart-UPS via a serial port? I moved some equipment around and now have one UPS that ended up not being monitored, and I'd like to have the Alpha monitor it (and run shutdown.com on low battery). I did a little googling around but couldn't find anything. I've seen Powerchute for VAX but it had a rather obscene price tag attached to it. Cheers, MISER::FRED :)

16 years, 6 months

Fwd: [HECnet] DEC fan meeting in Lake District, anyone from HECnet want to speak?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Begin forwarded message: From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> Date: 9 March 2009 22:01:54 GMT To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] DEC fan meeting in Lake District, anyone from HECnet want to speak? Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE majordomo at update.uu.se Just put a "subscribe hecnet" in the body. Johnny Sampsa Laine wrote: Oh ok, I just forgot the subscription address, someone remind me? :) Sampsa On 9 Mar 2009, at 21:42, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sampsa Laine wrote: Ladies, Gentlemen, I've been talking to a Mr Mark Williams today about some VMS related stuff, wonderfully helpful chap etc etc. Anyway, he asked me to relay this message to our mailing list in case we were interested in attending or even speaking at this "old DEC kit" gathering. If it had been any closer... ;-) Might I also suggest that we add Mr Williams to this mailing list as he's likely to be a great asset to HECnet. In general I dislike adding someone else on their behalf. I prefer that they request to subscribe themself. Johnny Sampsa Begin forwarded message: *From: *Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk <mailto:mark at wickensonline.co.uk> <mailto:mark at wickensonline.co.uk>> While I've got your attention - I'm organising a meeting later in the year that will focus on old DEC kit - HECNET would definitely be of interest - do you know of anyone in the HECNET community who I might approach about giving a short talk? It'll be autumn this year (when I get my finger out and book a venue!) up here in the Lake District. Sounds like you might be interested in this sort of thing - do you want me to add you to the distribution list? -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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