16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
'21
5:54 p.m.
On 2021-11-16 17:40, Dave McGuire wrote:
Similar hardware as Magica then. Magica have four RA73, TU81, RL02,
DELUA and 3.5M of memory. Oh, and a paper tape punch and reader, and an
RX02. I think that's it... Might be a DH11 in there as well, but nothing
hooked up to those lines normally.
DECservers and LAT is entirely appropriate. :-)
Or use telnet (with RSX or BSD).
Johnny
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On 11/16/21 11:23 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Well, I had that much:
.ddb fang
(Using local interface)
Node: FANG
Address: 61.5
Owner: Dave McGuire
OS:
CPU:
Created: 30 Apr 2012 21:42:43
Modified: 02 May 2020 19:45:48
Loc: New Kensington, PA, USA
Coord: 40.568333,-79.758331
Hey, I didn't have any information about
FANG::
? We have many nodes defined here that come up on HECnet when they're
up.? FANG:: is 61.5. Should I put
it as a real PDP-11/70 then? What OS is it running when
on HECnet?
? 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.
Thanks. PIXEL:: I didn't even have in there.
? I will formalize the others and get you the info as
time permits.
Great.
(And it's
always fun to see people actually use these machine in the
proper way...)
? 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.