Thank you Supratim for making such a resource available! I didn't get a chance at it, though as: "Access to 'HECnet in a Box' was limited due to high download traffic." apparently very shortly after the announcement. Would it be possible to upload it to archive.org ?

Cheers,

Chris.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 6:21 PM Supratim Sanyal <supratim@riseup.net> wrote:

HECnet-in-a-box: Here is a Oracle VirtualBox appliance intended for
people wanting to get on HECnet in a few minutes (after obtaining
Nodenames and DECnet addresses from one of the HECnet Area owners) . It
comes with a bridge that provides TAP interfaces and a VDE Switch for
emulators to connect to, as well as a DECnet/Python instance and a SimH
PDP-11/70 running RSX-11M-Plus. Configuration involves answering a few
questions pertaining to node names and addresses and firing them up
which shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Instructions are in the
README. Both SimH and QEMU support VDE switches directly, so it is easy
to keep adding SimH and QEMU emulated machines to it. The home partition
has 80GB of space as-shipped, and memory is set to 2GB but it is a
VirtualBox thing and it is trivial to bump up memory as needed. Maybe it
will be of help to people interested in joining HECnet with minimal
effort. It can be downloaded from https://bit.ly/hecnet-in-a-box or
scanning the QR Code. Any feedback for the next revision welcome.

Thank you Paul Koning for DECnet/Python and Johnny for the immaculately
manicured RSX distribution.

Regards,
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