Hi Dave,
Congratulations!
It must be a great feeling to get a real VAX 11/780. They are extremely rare. A real gem!
I wish you all the best with saving a real piece of computing history!
Somehow I can understand your feelings as I had a similar experience recently.
It's a long story, but eventually the VAX arrived at my place.
I'm now working on restoring it. I haven't dared to try to switch it on yet, because what I was told it had been more than ten years in a warehouse untouched. The capacitors in the power supplies has for sure dried up and need replacement.
Because the VAX is such an exceptional item I really don't want to take any risks with it and not rush with it. Better to be careful.
It would be very interesting to share experiences with you, if you don't mind.
Kari
On 5.4.2014 7:31, Dave McGuire wrote:
...I did get one hell of a consolation prize to soften the blow. A
large truck arrived today with nine racks and two pallets. This brings
true a dream I've had for 31 years. I teared up more than once.
Observe the glory.
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/VAXen/
-Dave
Congratulations! I am really jealous. My first real computer experience was on an 11/780 a and I would love to have one in the basement.
Ian
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On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:31 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
...I did get one hell of a consolation prize to soften the blow. A
large truck arrived today with nine racks and two pallets. This brings
true a dream I've had for 31 years. I teared up more than once.
Observe the glory.
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/VAXen/
-Dave
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...I did get one hell of a consolation prize to soften the blow. A
large truck arrived today with nine racks and two pallets. This brings
true a dream I've had for 31 years. I teared up more than once.
Observe the glory.
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/VAXen/
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
LSM-OA
Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone.
Origineel bericht
Van: Cory Smelosky
Verzonden: vrijdag 4 april 2014 01:31
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: [HECnet] Tru64 License PAK names
Hello list,
Anyone here have the name of the PAKs for the logical storage manager on
hand? I just need the name that it wants.
Thanks!
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello list,
Anyone here have the name of the PAKs for the logical storage manager on hand? I just need the name that it wants.
Thanks!
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:44:52PM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Hello all,
Brian,
I did some network reconfiguration. The tunnel source should be
Ethernet0 now instead of Dialer0. I use less power and things are
less break-y this way. ;)
Reloading router: 75.49.17.245 XXXXX 199.166.5.172 tunnel-dev.gimme-sympathy.org-ipv4.txt
Error reloading router: dev.gimme-sympathy.org :: No SNMP response received before timeout
-brian
Hello all,
Brian,
I did some network reconfiguration. The tunnel source should be Ethernet0 now instead of Dialer0. I use less power and things are less break-y this way. ;)
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Let us know what you find. I remember alphavm free having very slow networking for me as well.
-brian
On Mar 26, 2014, at 20:13, "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:
Mark,
Send me email off-line. I can take a look if need be.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 18:45
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Adjacency issues for SLAVE...
Sorry for the issues caused by SLAVE.
I'm attempting to configure up alphavm free to emulate SLAVE
- and it's been going quite well but networking is an issue -
in particular performance.
I'm using a dedicated network card but it's currently *real*
slow. If anyone has any tips I'd be grateful...
Oh, and I've officially disobeyed orders:
http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/images/20140326223841422.png :)
Regards, Mark
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Mark,
Send me email off-line. I can take a look if need be.
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 18:45
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Adjacency issues for SLAVE...
Sorry for the issues caused by SLAVE.
I'm attempting to configure up alphavm free to emulate SLAVE
- and it's been going quite well but networking is an issue -
in particular performance.
I'm using a dedicated network card but it's currently *real*
slow. If anyone has any tips I'd be grateful...
Oh, and I've officially disobeyed orders:
http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/images/20140326223841422.png :)
Regards, Mark
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http://www.wickensonline.co.ukhttp://hecnet.euhttp://declegacy.org.ukhttp://retrochallenge.nethttps://twitter.com/urbancamo
