20 Aug
2023
20 Aug
'23
12:54 a.m.
On 2023-08-19 15:15, Dave McGuire wrote:
Feel free to ask whenever. I might need to check a few manuals for that
as well, but I'm happy whenever I talk RSX...
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.
Update have a 3600, which we did run for a while, but we didn't have DECnet.
Johnny
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On 8/16/23 20:55, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Been a while since I touched a KS. I know of some people who have one,
but I don't know enough myself to be of much help.
But is there actually a jumper to run in 18-bit mode? It's been quite a
while since I played with massbus disks, but right now I can't remember
having any jumpers for that on the drives I played with.
I definitely moved RP06 and RP07 drives between -10 and -11. Don't think
I ever moved an RM02 or RM03 though.
> 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. :)
Cool. Looking forward to the report. For some reason, real iron makes me
happy.
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.