On 30 Mar 2013, at 17:52, "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:59, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/30/2013 02:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
I'd love to have one of those. They're all pretty much gone at this point,
unfortunately. The few that remain aren't able to be pried out of their
owners' hands. (and I don't blame them one bit!)
Hello!
And here I believed you had rooms of things that you haven't even
gotten around to unpacking yet.
Well, a small number of rooms (this building is basically three very large,
open floors) but I generally know what I have.
Unlike this house which is vastly smaller and I often forget the odd things I have. ;)
Of course this does explain why there is a legion of mechanical
contrivances running around welding doors shut after making sure no
one, cats included, happened to be inside them.
The cats are lying around being lazy, as cats are wont to do. They really
don't care about welded doors.
Food, on the other hand...Fergie (one particularly cute and lazy cat)
looked at my breakfast and said, "Hey, that looks yummy! Put it in the cat!"
Now i'm going to have annoying pop songs stuck in my head.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
That's okay. There's a big green thing outside it humming those
annoying pop songs until one of two things happen. The first one is he
gets paid off by those yetis who're still playing trampoline with your
connections out. Or it rains and he gets washed away.
That would explain why I keep getting distracted!
As for you Dave, please stop staring at that yellow car, and those
four Bedford delivery wagons. And besides the cats have reported that
all of the frantic welding machines have left.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:59, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/30/2013 02:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
I'd love to have one of those. They're all pretty much gone at this point,
unfortunately. The few that remain aren't able to be pried out of their
owners' hands. (and I don't blame them one bit!)
Hello!
And here I believed you had rooms of things that you haven't even
gotten around to unpacking yet.
Well, a small number of rooms (this building is basically three very large,
open floors) but I generally know what I have.
Unlike this house which is vastly smaller and I often forget the odd things I have. ;)
Of course this does explain why there is a legion of mechanical
contrivances running around welding doors shut after making sure no
one, cats included, happened to be inside them.
The cats are lying around being lazy, as cats are wont to do. They really
don't care about welded doors.
Food, on the other hand...Fergie (one particularly cute and lazy cat)
looked at my breakfast and said, "Hey, that looks yummy! Put it in the cat!"
Now i'm going to have annoying pop songs stuck in my head.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
That's okay. There's a big green thing outside it humming those
annoying pop songs until one of two things happen. The first one is he
gets paid off by those yetis who're still playing trampoline with your
connections out. Or it rains and he gets washed away.
As for you Dave, please stop staring at that yellow car, and those
four Bedford delivery wagons. And besides the cats have reported that
all of the frantic welding machines have left.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:59, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/30/2013 02:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
I'd love to have one of those. They're all pretty much gone at this point,
unfortunately. The few that remain aren't able to be pried out of their
owners' hands. (and I don't blame them one bit!)
Hello!
And here I believed you had rooms of things that you haven't even
gotten around to unpacking yet.
Well, a small number of rooms (this building is basically three very large,
open floors) but I generally know what I have.
Unlike this house which is vastly smaller and I often forget the odd things I have. ;)
Of course this does explain why there is a legion of mechanical
contrivances running around welding doors shut after making sure no
one, cats included, happened to be inside them.
The cats are lying around being lazy, as cats are wont to do. They really
don't care about welded doors.
Food, on the other hand...Fergie (one particularly cute and lazy cat)
looked at my breakfast and said, "Hey, that looks yummy! Put it in the cat!"
Now i'm going to have annoying pop songs stuck in my head.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 03/30/2013 02:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
I'd love to have one of those. They're all pretty much gone at this point,
unfortunately. The few that remain aren't able to be pried out of their
owners' hands. (and I don't blame them one bit!)
Hello!
And here I believed you had rooms of things that you haven't even
gotten around to unpacking yet.
Well, a small number of rooms (this building is basically three very large,
open floors) but I generally know what I have.
Of course this does explain why there is a legion of mechanical
contrivances running around welding doors shut after making sure no
one, cats included, happened to be inside them.
The cats are lying around being lazy, as cats are wont to do. They really
don't care about welded doors.
Food, on the other hand...Fergie (one particularly cute and lazy cat)
looked at my breakfast and said, "Hey, that looks yummy! Put it in the cat!"
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/30/2013 07:45 AM, Brett Bump wrote:
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
I'd love to have one of those. They're all pretty much gone at this point,
unfortunately. The few that remain aren't able to be pried out of their
owners' hands. (and I don't blame them one bit!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
And here I believed you had rooms of things that you haven't even
gotten around to unpacking yet.
Of course this does explain why there is a legion of mechanical
contrivances running around welding doors shut after making sure no
one, cats included, happened to be inside them.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 03/30/2013 07:45 AM, Brett Bump wrote:
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
I'd love to have one of those. They're all pretty much gone at this point,
unfortunately. The few that remain aren't able to be pried out of their
owners' hands. (and I don't blame them one bit!)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 03/29/2013 11:12 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 29 Mar 2013, at 23:05, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/29/2013 11:04 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I can understand running SIMH on that RasPi, and in fact I was
thinking of something similar with mine. And even finding a VT420 or
any of the others, except the '52.
Why the hate for the '52? ;)
What's the OS yours is running, that is with SIMH on it?
Non-up-to-date Raspbian. ;)
Hello!
The only one I saw was being used for something else?..
Was it being used as a place to sit coffee?
Ah crap, that was mine, sorry..
You need a VT05?if you don't already have one. ;)
I don't have one, and likely never will. One got exhibited (it belongs to
Mike Ross) along with my PDP-11/70 at VCF-East last year, though.
I have several VT52s, and a couple of VT50s.
(and I was actually talking about my coffee above..)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
You need a VT55. Good luck finding thermal paper for it though. ;-)
We bought 2 new (old stock) VT55's in the early 80s. They were kind
of fun for graphs, but not worth what the school paid for them.
Brett
On 30 Mar 2013, at 01:23, "Mark Benson" <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 Mar 2013, at 23:29, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Not extremely interesting all of you have probably seen this a million times before on your own gear. ;)
But! I brought up a SIMH instance on my Raspberry PI, connected the console to my USB to serial adapter, and used it to connect to MIM using my VT420. ;) I'll eventually use a DECserver but for now this is what I have. ;)
http://gewt.net/pics/vt420-mim.jpg (apologies about the picture quality can't quite keep my damn hands perfectly steady)
(also, my connection to MIM keeps dropping I need to figure out what the cause is)
To me that's the pinnacle of emulation. Connecting REAL peripherals to an emulator to get close to the REAL experience. I did a bit of testing of Mark Pizz's serial port code for terminals against my VT510 just because I wanted to be able to do real, direct serial terminal work against an emulated VAX or PDP-11 and so I made sure it was tested some so it got into 4.0. There's something rewarding about rattling away on a VT510 talking to a tiny board that draws a lot less power than the VT. :)
It is indeed rewarding. :)
The RaspberryPi is great for lower-end VAX and PDP-11 emulation. It only musters about 1-2VUPs at best running the uVAX 3900 so isn't a huge deal faster than the early 11/7xx series machines. Still my Area router is a rev. 1 Raspberry Pi running raspbian and SimH. It's been running 24/7 for almost a year :)
It most definitely is. I chose VMS 5.2 for a reason. ;)
mark at raspi1:~$ uptime
03:46:15 up 54 days, 5:29, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.17, 0.14
We get occasional power outages (hence the short uptime) and I never got around to buying a UPS (if my computer stack goes off I just grab a torch and read a book and wait for the power to come back :P).
How long are the outages usually? (I have some UPSes and some generators. Basement floods if power is out too long)
I have 2 more RasPi's in the 5.25" bays of a 2U unit now too, one that will be running as a PDP-11/93 and one that will run as a VAX 11/780. They share the 2U with a Atom D410MO motherboard that will run my VAX work machine (it's about 20x faster than a RasPi). The thing is jury-rigged so the Pis run of the 5V line on the ATX PSU via a Molex. It has a GBit hub inside and 2 NICs on the Atom board (alas only 10/100) that are bridged so it only needs 1 ethernet port to attach the whole box. It's neat and save for some soldering, I built it myself. I originally built it for hosting a VAXcluster but I really have no use for one.
That is an awesome setup.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixel_mason/sets/72157630752112422/
Oh, incidentally, Gregg, the Optiplex is probably round that way so it keeps him warm at his desk.
If that were a desk, that would be true. ;)
I have an ancient (well 2004-ish) P4 3.0 HT that I use for Windows XP 32-bit now I'm on Win 7 64-bit (I have legacy hardware devices that don't have any 64-bit drivers). It's a Dell Dimension 4600 motherboard that's been reboxed with a new case and PSU with a cute ducted cooling fan for the P4 made of plasti-card, duct tape tape and a 120mm fan. Which reminds me, I must put Pathworks32 on it this week :)
Personally, i'd run NT 4 on a P4 (shame it doesn't seem to like HT P4s ). I prefer it to XP. ;)
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
On 29 Mar 2013, at 23:29, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Not extremely interesting all of you have probably seen this a million times before on your own gear. ;)
But! I brought up a SIMH instance on my Raspberry PI, connected the console to my USB to serial adapter, and used it to connect to MIM using my VT420. ;) I'll eventually use a DECserver but for now this is what I have. ;)
http://gewt.net/pics/vt420-mim.jpg (apologies about the picture quality can't quite keep my damn hands perfectly steady)
(also, my connection to MIM keeps dropping I need to figure out what the cause is)
To me that's the pinnacle of emulation. Connecting REAL peripherals to an emulator to get close to the REAL experience. I did a bit of testing of Mark Pizz's serial port code for terminals against my VT510 just because I wanted to be able to do real, direct serial terminal work against an emulated VAX or PDP-11 and so I made sure it was tested some so it got into 4.0. There's something rewarding about rattling away on a VT510 talking to a tiny board that draws a lot less power than the VT. :)
The RaspberryPi is great for lower-end VAX and PDP-11 emulation. It only musters about 1-2VUPs at best running the uVAX 3900 so isn't a huge deal faster than the early 11/7xx series machines. Still my Area router is a rev. 1 Raspberry Pi running raspbian and SimH. It's been running 24/7 for almost a year :)
mark at raspi1:~$ uptime
03:46:15 up 54 days, 5:29, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.17, 0.14
We get occasional power outages (hence the short uptime) and I never got around to buying a UPS (if my computer stack goes off I just grab a torch and read a book and wait for the power to come back :P).
I have 2 more RasPi's in the 5.25" bays of a 2U unit now too, one that will be running as a PDP-11/93 and one that will run as a VAX 11/780. They share the 2U with a Atom D410MO motherboard that will run my VAX work machine (it's about 20x faster than a RasPi). The thing is jury-rigged so the Pis run of the 5V line on the ATX PSU via a Molex. It has a GBit hub inside and 2 NICs on the Atom board (alas only 10/100) that are bridged so it only needs 1 ethernet port to attach the whole box. It's neat and save for some soldering, I built it myself. I originally built it for hosting a VAXcluster but I really have no use for one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixel_mason/sets/72157630752112422/
Oh, incidentally, Gregg, the Optiplex is probably round that way so it keeps him warm at his desk.
I have an ancient (well 2004-ish) P4 3.0 HT that I use for Windows XP 32-bit now I'm on Win 7 64-bit (I have legacy hardware devices that don't have any 64-bit drivers). It's a Dell Dimension 4600 motherboard that's been reboxed with a new case and PSU with a cute ducted cooling fan for the P4 made of plasti-card, duct tape tape and a 120mm fan. Which reminds me, I must put Pathworks32 on it this week :)
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
On 03/29/2013 11:42 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Shame it's VCF I don't have anything old and interesting that's really
computer related. ;) I DO however have a cabinet phonograph from the '50s
I need to fix up (You wouldn't happen to have spare wax paper capacitors,
would you Dave?)
I don't. I generally don't work on gear THAT old. (not for any particular
reason other than lack of opportunity and focus on high-end test equipment)
The alpha isn't old enough to be interesting and the
VT420 is too recent to not be overshadowed by cooler terminals. My
"classic mac" gear is from the mid-'90s and isn't that exciting.
There isn't an Alpha in existence that's old enough to be VCF material.
Maybe if I get VMS 1.x working in SIMH...
That might be neat.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
