[HECnet] New system online

With difficulty I'd say :-) Hecnet members own a wide variety of hardware and tend to hang on to spare parts and software kits as if their lives depend on them. If you have a specific question then it gets answered here?, no doubt. Software kits, whatever version of a product you need, are generally easy to get here. Hans Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone. Origineel bericht Van: Lex van Roon Verzonden: donderdag 7 juli 2016 21:33 Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] New system online I was wondering about this myself as well, how do you actually find interesting things on HECnet without actively probing anything? The INFO.TXT does seem to be a good thing for this, and by looking at it, I need to start getting things into order :) gr, Lex On 07/07/2016 09:24, Johnny Billquist wrote: > I could certainly add various bits of information, but it might > become a bit > unwieldy to manage that information locally. > > In the past there was the suggestion that people have an INFO.TXT > in the > default account for DECnet. Any such file will be displayed by > another page > I have on MIM. > > See for example http://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet?node=mim > > There have also been suggestions for standardizing the format of > that file. > I don't think my example might be following any such standards, and > I'm not > sure how important/useful that could be. > > But I think it's a better system for giving random information > about nodes > than the nodename database, as there can be all kind of odd > information you > can put there. > > Johnny > > On 2016-07-07 02:29, Mark Abene wrote: >> Speaking of which, I was wondering if maybe Johnny thinks it would be >> a good idea to add a column to the web-based node list which shows >> whether or not the particular system has a guest account, or offers >> user accounts? The question of which nodes are "open" comes up on the >> list now and again, and I don't remember there being any >> authoritative >> list. >> >> Regards, >> Mark >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Lex van Roon <r3boot at r3blog.nl> >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> After some effort, I got an PDP-11/93 (simh) online running >>> RSX-11M+ 4.6 >>> bl 87. It is reachable as ROJIN (1.542) and I've configured a guest >>> account on this box if anyone is interested in nosing around on this >>> sytem. Do note, I just have about 2 weeks of experience with rsx, >>> so be >>> gentle with me :) >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> >>> Lex van Roon >>> >>> -- >>> LRO-RIPE | 570DE0BE | 9BF5 922E AF87 8584 E9CA C3AD C508 39A9 >>> 570D E0BE > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol