Hi,
sorry to bother you all with none net related things, but I reckoned
this was the most likely place to get an answer. Does one of you own a
VAXstation 3100 or similar? I'm looking for the external dimensions so
I can whip up a small scale replica case to house a Raspberry Pi
inside. I could go by guesswork and memory, but I'd rather do it
right.
Thanks,
Tony
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Hey folks, slightly OT, but there's PDP-11 stuff in here. :) For
those of you who aren't on (blech) Facebook, here's my post of a few
minutes ago.
-Dave
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Hi folks! We have a great update for you today. Our fundraiser was
successful, and we've just finished executing a successful four-stop
road trip in a 26-foot rental truck.
The first stop was local; we went to the University of Pittsburgh's
CompSci building in downtown Pittsburgh. Pitt was kind enough to donate
a large volume of DEC hardware to LSSM/MACT, constituting the bulk of
their internal CompSci Department computer museum. There are several
PDP-11s, but the centerpiece is an absolutely stunning PDP-11/t55 system
with a large complement of peripherals including several RK05 and RK07
drives, two TU56+TC11 subsystems, a TU16 9-track tape drive, a Three
Rivers Computer Unibus monitor...the list goes on and on. Lots of
parts, documentation, RK05 and RK07 disk packs, etc etc. A big thanks
to Dr. Bob Hoffman and the University of Pittsburgh for this fantastic
donation! We'll have that PDP-11/t55 up and running soon. This
equipment almost completely filled the truck, so we went back to the
museum after that to unload.
Next, we hit the road with an empty truck for Minneapolis, Minnesota, to
pick up an HP-3000 series 39 system, complete with a 7978 9-track tape
drive, a 7935 disk drive, and two 7914 disk/tape subsystems. Sadly
there were no terminals, but the system is otherwise complete and in
very good condition considering its age. It was donated by the family
of Mr. Terry Stolp in his memory, and it will have a good home here.
Next, we visited the positively huge IBM facility in Rochester,
Minnesota where we picked up a model 3774 RJE terminal with a 3501 card
reader, a 3521 card punch with controller, and a 3784 line printer. We
thank IBM for this fantastic donation, and we appreciate their
dedication to the preservation of their (large) part of history.
Last but not least, we visited the amazing Steppenwolf Theatre in
Chicago, where we picked up a beautiful and very rare Singer/Friden
System Ten computer system, complete with two large disk drives, a line
printer, two terminals, and documentation. Thanks to Chad Hain of
Steppenwolf for this very unusual donation. The photo attached to this
post is the System Ten's CPU.
So now we're back and unloaded, and the truck is returned. When we are
all recovered from this rather exhausting trip, we'll take some pictures
and post them here for your viewing pleasure, over the next few days.
Thank you all for your donations, which made this pickup run possible!
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello everyone, :)
while doing some housekeeping in one of my VMS systems I just came
across the PSTHRU.EXE DECnet tool for VAX which I downloaded from some place
I could not remember anymore, maybe some freeware collection.
PSTHRU.EXE implements DECnet PMR (Poor's Man Routing), i.e. the ability to
specify a route directly in the connection string, that was especially
useful when dealing with hidden areas because it relieved both users and
system managers from the need to have accounts on any intermediate
system(s). In simpler words it allows for things like the following:
$ SET HOST GATEWY::OTHRGW::HIDDEN::
With the exception of FAL and MAIL, whenever DECnet finds that a connection
string to some remote network object contains a list of nodes rather than
just one, it redirects that connection request to object 123 on the leftmost
node of the list. There, PSTHRU forwards the connection to the next node on
the list (either to object 123 or to the actual intended object, depending
on how many nodes are left to be passed through), and so on until the source
could be connected to its intended target. For different reasons both FAL
and MAIL have their own way of doing PMR and thus do not require PSTHRU or
anything similar for it to work.
Now the question is: does anyone have the source of PSTHRU.EXE (does it
exist at all?) and/or does anyone have an Alpha version of that image?
Also, by looking at a dump of PSTHRU.EXE it appears that it contains some
reference to some PSTHRU.DAT, so another question is: does anyone know how
to use it? I suspect that it could be a file where complex paths could be
listed so that one wouldn't have to remember all of them...
Thanks!
G.
Anyone using DECnet Phase-V on VAX/VMS V7.3 in the HECnet community?
I am rebuilding SGC::. It is MUCH bigger and faster so I may go the Phase-V route if it has any real value. Comments?
Thanks!
-Steve
Hello,
Been a few years with an Email address change and a personal change, I'm
now retired.
Still have a boat load of MicroVAXen both Qbus and 3100 series, Qbus-11s
and PDP-8f.
Other than that more than a few CP/M boxes.
Maybe I can get the bridge going as FIOS, I did that years ago has a
stable address.
Allison/former mill rat and owner of VIdsys: a former mill/DSG/OGO
uVAXII/GPX system.
Hi,
I've been seeing references to VAX Lisp installation savesets available on CONDIST media (March 1993) through google search but the links go nowhere and the messages are around 7 years old anyway. So...
Does anybody have the media I could 'borrow' and the product key, pretty please? There are references to its status being 'retired' like Bliss32. I didn't get a response from HP's hobbyist administrator regarding it being available through them.
Hoping someone can help.
They have the version I want running at the Living Computers Museum on Rosie which recently moved over from a 780-5 to a 6000-640 but it appears still to be sysgen'd for 24Mb main memory (I'm sure the 6000 has more than that) and my pagefilequota isn't big enough to do the Lisp'ing I want to do and my working set limits would result in a horrendous amount of paging. Hence the need to do it locally.
Regards,
Keith
Thank you Oleg. Exciting to see it appears IMPVAX and CTAKAH are now
connected over MULTINET.
$ MC NCP SHOW CIRCUIT TCP-0-99 CHAR
Circuit Volatile Characteristics as of 24-FEB-2019 04:39:10
Circuit = TCP-0-99
State = on
Service = enabled
Cost = 1
Hello timer = 15
Verification = disabled
Adjacent node = 62.637 (CTAKAH)
Listen timer = 30
$ MC NCP TELL CTAKAH SHOW ACTIVE CIRCUITS
Active Circuit Volatile Summary as of 24-FEB-2019 04:39:23
Circuit State Loopback Adjacent
Name Routing Node
UNA-0 on 62.5 (BOPOHA)
UNA-0 62.17 (CCCP)
DL-0 on 62.11 (KYPEBO)
IP-0-0 on 1.13 (MIM)
IP-0-1 on -starting
IP-0-2 on -starting
IP-0-3 on 1.559 (IMPVAX)
$
Best wishes,
Supratim
On 2/23/19 10:51 PM, Oleg Safiullin wrote:
> I'm not sure if I can send to hecnet@ from @pdp-11.online, so this is a
> copy of message :)
>
>
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> From: Oleg Safiullin <form at pdp-11.online>
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> On 24-Feb-2019 2:59, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> Hi Oleg,
>
> Hi!
>
>> If possible, I would like to set up a MULTINET link to CTAKAH. On this
>> side, it will be IMPVAX (52.23.221.223, 1.559).
>
> No problems :)
> Just connect via TCP to pdp-11.online:700
>
> WBR
> //form
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Hi Oleg,
If possible, I would like to set up a MULTINET link to CTAKAH. On this
side, it will be IMPVAX (52.23.221.223, 1.559).
By the way, Novosibirsk looked very beautiful in the night when our
Moscow-Chita train pulled up around 4 AM.
Thank you,
Supratim
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