[HECnet] LSSM group visit today

On 11/16/21 11:23 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: We have many nodes defined here that come up on HECnet when they're up. FANG:: is 61.5. Sure. It currently only runs RSX-11M-PLUS v4.6, but eventually we'll set up RSTS/E, RT-11, and 2.11BSD system disks for it. I suppose the only other one that will appear on HECnet is RSTS/E. The goal for that machine, with its quad pack of RA73s, is to cover most of the OSs that people may want to run. Another you can add is PIXEL::, at 61.22, which is a PDP-11/83 (real hardware) that runs RSX-11M-PLUS most of the time. That's at my place, not at the museum. I usually run it through the winter; I brought it up last week. I will formalize the others and get you the info as time permits. Yes. :) When I was a kid in the early 1980s, it was a huge fantasy of mine to be the admin of a PDP-11 with users on it. As I grew up that became less and less of a possibility, but I was the admin of a few VAXen running VMS in the late 1980s into the early 1990s. And then of course UNIX systems with many thousands of users. And of course we run PDP-11s and do group tours at the museum all the time, for six years now. But yesterday, with a group tour in which everyone was doing pretty much the same thing on the same machine, was very different, and finally fulfilled that old fantasy of mine. The only thing that would've made it better, but only a little, is if those terminals were connected to DH11s. They're all connected to DECservers and their sessions were via LAT. We can't really dedicate terminals to machines at LSSM, because there are many more machines than terminals. Not even consoles are dedicated. All of the consoles (even the PDP-8s) are connected to DECserver ports with local services defined, so people can run any kind of terminal they want on a give machine. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA