Mirrored at https://bit.ly/hecnet-in-a-box-megashare since dreaded
bandwidth limits kicked in due to a rush of downloads.

On 6/16/2023 8:21 PM, Supratim Sanyal 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,
> Supratim
>
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