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by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 23/09/2013 07:26, Sampsa Laine wrote: Does anybody wish to have their system listed in CHIMPY's LAUNCH captive account - it gets a moderate amount of traffic. Currently listed systems are: 1. B4BBS - Yesterday's Technology Today 2. WOPR:: - Games and VAX BBS goodness 3. MIM: - The RSX-11 based home of HECnet 4. vert.synchro.net - Vertrauen BBS 5. EISNER - DECUSERVE's Public Access System 6. MANSON - Part of the Deathrow Cluster 7. BUBBLE:: 8. TIGER:: 9. RetroChallenge BBS 10. Pyffle BBS HQ 11. HILANT:: VAX Cluster 12. TWENEX - awesome TOPS-20 system 13. B4/S390 - MBSE BBS runnning on a z/Series MAINFRAME. Check it out! sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 SLAVE:: (when it's up) contains DECUS archive, VMS/DUnix/Ultrix archive

12 years, 4 months

Hooking up TOPS-20 to HECnet?

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:52:15PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Interesting. And I wonder why. There's a scene in the book "Cuckoo's Egg" where the fink having broken into the US sponsored network again landing in UCB finds himself 3000 miles away and in Cambridge and trying to figure out a TOPS-20 running system. I can't recall what specie of system it was that was still there then, but when Cliff contacted the school to report it, the individual told him not to worry about it, there wasn't much on it, and it was (GASP!) going to be thrown away in a few months. It might have been an ordinary PDP-10 as it happens. The fink was easily confounded by BSD, and knew enough VMS to confuse even Cliff, but the way the TOPS-20 system worked completely baffled him. I certainly hope the system went to a good home..... I just red that book and remember the scene very well :) I also gasp:ed when I read it was going to be thrown away. I recall that it was a KA10, but did KA10's run TOPS-20? I don't think so. I'll have to open the book and check tonight. Great book! /P

12 years, 4 months

Connecting to HECnet from DEC Legacy 19-20 Oct

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

El 23/09/2013, a les 8:45, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: So you can basically install X on them and it'll run? Well, yes and no. I don't think the graphics support in SIMH is the better option to make a "portable VAX". Basically, what you get is a window emulatin the Vaxstation "glass console". So, when you boot VMS with DECWindows, you get a graphic login prompt just like in a real VS. The problem is you will get the emulated device resolution, not the resolution your mac can support. You will get better results with a headless emulated VAX and xnest/Xephyr connecting to it using XDCMP... Jordi Guillaumes i Pons jg at jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES

12 years, 4 months

Hooking up TOPS-20 to HECnet?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Installing it on a Linux box anyway, it says it comes with a precompiled Linux binary of KLH10. sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:47, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 23/09/2013, a les 8:41, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: Will that run in SIMH? Or do I need some other emulator? It won't run in SIMH. The panda dist comes with KLH10. The default configuration has DECNET disabled, but it is not difficult to enable it. You will find some tips in this post: http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/ten-over-pi.html?m=1 sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:38, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 23/09/2013, a les 5:59, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: What software do I need to get another one going? Any ideas? The panda distribution contains everything you need.

12 years, 4 months

Hooking up TOPS-20 to HECnet?

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

El 23/09/2013, a les 8:41, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: Will that run in SIMH? Or do I need some other emulator? It won't run in SIMH. The panda dist comes with KLH10. The default configuration has DECNET disabled, but it is not difficult to enable it. You will find some tips in this post: http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/ten-over-pi.html?m=1 sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:38, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 23/09/2013, a les 5:59, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: What software do I need to get another one going? Any ideas? The panda distribution contains everything you need.

12 years, 4 months

Connecting to HECnet from DEC Legacy 19-20 Oct

by sampsa＠mac.com

So you can basically install X on them and it'll run? sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:41, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 23/09/2013, a les 8:38, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: And the VAX emu does graphics? I'm not at home now so I can't check it for sure; the microVAX II does it for sure, and IIRC the 3900 does it too.

12 years, 4 months

Connecting to HECnet from DEC Legacy 19-20 Oct

by sampsa＠mac.com

If that's the case, my Macbook Pro 13" is turning into a portable VAX :) sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:41, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 23/09/2013, a les 8:38, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: And the VAX emu does graphics? I'm not at home now so I can't check it for sure; the microVAX II does it for sure, and IIRC the 3900 does it too.

12 years, 4 months

Connecting to HECnet from DEC Legacy 19-20 Oct

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

El 23/09/2013, a les 8:38, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: And the VAX emu does graphics? I'm not at home now so I can't check it for sure; the microVAX II does it for sure, and IIRC the 3900 does it too.

12 years, 4 months

Hooking up TOPS-20 to HECnet?

by sampsa＠mac.com

Will that run in SIMH? Or do I need some other emulator? sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +358 40 7208932 On 23 Sep 2013, at 08:38, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 23/09/2013, a les 5:59, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: What software do I need to get another one going? Any ideas? The panda distribution contains everything you need.

12 years, 4 months

Hooking up TOPS-20 to HECnet?

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

El 23/09/2013, a les 5:59, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: What software do I need to get another one going? Any ideas? The panda distribution contains everything you need.

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