19 Aug
2023
19 Aug
'23
3:15 p.m.
On 8/16/23 20:55, Johnny Billquist wrote:
We did, briefly, and it worked; I was able to copy files between
Genera and a VMS system. Then the XL-1201 started developing power
supply issues. We'll be working on that this fall.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> There are many other DEC machines...PDP-11/05,
11/34, 11/03, 11/23,
> several PDP-8s, a PDP-14, over a hundred VAXen, about a hundred
> Alphas, a few more VMS-capable HP Itanium2s, etc, but those aren't on
> exhibit, or on HECnet. (I still need to wrap my head around
> DECnet-11M forthe non-Plus RSX systems.)
And I forgot to mention the KS10s, but those will be a while. We'll
probably bridge them over via a sync serial line.
One of them is close to working, but it has some bad bits in the line
of buffers between the CSL board and the CPU bus. Those extra-tall
boards need two extenders stacked to get far enough out of the card cage
for probing, and we just got a second extender. We have an RM02 that
spins up and loads heads, but we have to deal with that troublesome
jumper for 36-bit use and then figure out how to write an image onto a pack.
We have one of LCM's MASSBUS disk emulators, but we need to gather
funds to purchase the FPGA board that it works with.
Then there will be even more real iron on HECnet. :)
Ugh. DECnet-11M is mainly a headache because you need
to manually setup
memory partitions for stuff. Things are just so much more primitive in
-11M...
Sure, but we can't type "set cpu 11/70" on the console of an 11/34.
;) I'll be the one working on that project; I may need a little help on
that if you're willing.
Our
Symbolics XL-1201 Lisp Machine has DECnet installed, and our
gaggle of Symbolics 3600-series machines will too, once we restore them.
Cool. I know that there was DECnet for those machines, but I've never
seen it in action.