16 Aug
2023
16 Aug
'23
3:22 a.m.
very quiet here; however, I see two nodes on ANF10 and 60 on DECnet on
Area 31 ...
.net
[ANF10 network: connected to TWONK2(40), located at TWONK2(40), 2 nodes]
Node TWONKY (37) TWONKY KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
Node TWONK2 (40) TWONK2 KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
[DECnet network: local node TWONK2, 59 reachable nodes in area 31]
AHIMSA AKSAH BATUU CGOING CLOUDY ENTEE4 FEDACH FOMFOR HAGAR HELDEN
IMPRTR IMPVAX JUICHI KARMA KDJ11E KETURA LILNUK LV MACOS7
MACOS9
MARIAH MELODY MOKSHA MOSHML NANAJU NJEVX1 NJEVX2 NOFAR OSTARA PIPY
PYDNET PYRTR QCOCAL RAPTOR REDMAX ROUT20 RST101 SEAPIG SHAKTI
TRAINS
TRU64 TSRTR TSTVAX TSVMST TWENEX TWONK2 TWONKY VAXSTN W2000S
WEXPEE
WFW311 WXPEE2 XL XLIV XLVI XLVII XX XXXV ZILPAH
16 Aug
16 Aug
7:28 p.m.
Area 60 is currently down due to high heat. Hopefully it will be back up next week.
Zane
On Aug 15, 2023, at 6:22 PM, Supratim Sanyal
<supratim(a)riseup.net> wrote:
very quiet here; however, I see two nodes on ANF10 and 60 on DECnet on Area 31 ...
.net
[ANF10 network: connected to TWONK2(40), located at TWONK2(40), 2 nodes]
Node TWONKY (37) TWONKY KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
Node TWONK2 (40) TWONK2 KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
[DECnet network: local node TWONK2, 59 reachable nodes in area 31]
AHIMSA AKSAH BATUU CGOING CLOUDY ENTEE4 FEDACH FOMFOR HAGAR HELDEN
IMPRTR IMPVAX JUICHI KARMA KDJ11E KETURA LILNUK LV MACOS7 MACOS9
MARIAH MELODY MOKSHA MOSHML NANAJU NJEVX1 NJEVX2 NOFAR OSTARA PIPY
PYDNET PYRTR QCOCAL RAPTOR REDMAX ROUT20 RST101 SEAPIG SHAKTI TRAINS
TRU64 TSRTR TSTVAX TSVMST TWENEX TWONK2 TWONKY VAXSTN W2000S WEXPEE
WFW311 WXPEE2 XL XLIV XLVI XLVII XX XXXV ZILPAH
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11:22 p.m.
I hate it when I do that. Originally sent directly to Zane...
I'm in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas (Fort Worth specifically). I shut down my MicroVAX
and Alphas a couple weeks ago due to heat. Yesterday and today marks the first break in
100+ degree days Since Aug 4th and before that we had 21 days in a row above 100 including
6 consecutive 105+ days. Also yesterday and today we had overnight lows of 78 and 75.
First time below 80 in 359 hours (14.95 days) a new record for the area.
All temps are in Fahrenheit.
--
John H. Reinhardt
On 8/16/2023 12:28 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Area 60 is currently down due to high heat. Hopefully
it will be back up next week.
Zane
> On Aug 15, 2023, at 6:22 PM, Supratim Sanyal <supratim(a)riseup.net> wrote:
>
> very quiet here; however, I see two nodes on ANF10 and 60 on DECnet on Area 31 ...
>
> .net
> [ANF10 network: connected to TWONK2(40), located at TWONK2(40), 2 nodes]
> Node TWONKY (37) TWONKY KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
> Node TWONK2 (40) TWONK2 KS10 TOPS10 7.04 28-Nov-21
>
> [DECnet network: local node TWONK2, 59 reachable nodes in area 31]
> AHIMSA AKSAH BATUU CGOING CLOUDY ENTEE4 FEDACH FOMFOR HAGAR HELDEN
> IMPRTR IMPVAX JUICHI KARMA KDJ11E KETURA LILNUK LV MACOS7 MACOS9
> MARIAH MELODY MOKSHA MOSHML NANAJU NJEVX1 NJEVX2 NOFAR OSTARA PIPY
> PYDNET PYRTR QCOCAL RAPTOR REDMAX ROUT20 RST101 SEAPIG SHAKTI TRAINS
> TRU64 TSRTR TSTVAX TSVMST TWENEX TWONK2 TWONKY VAXSTN W2000S WEXPEE
> WFW311 WXPEE2 XL XLIV XLVI XLVII XX XXXV ZILPAH
>
11:27 p.m.
On 8/16/23 17:22, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
I'm in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas (Fort Worth
specifically). I shut
down my MicroVAX and Alphas a couple weeks ago due to heat. Yesterday
and today marks the first break in 100+ degree days Since Aug 4th and
before that we had 21 days in a row above 100 including 6 consecutive
105+ days. Also yesterday and today we had overnight lows of 78 and
75. First time below 80 in 359 hours (14.95 days) a new record for the
area.
All temps are in Fahrenheit.
That's unbelievable. I hope all the hardware (and people) is/are ok.
Pittsburgh is nice, 74F currently, and we've got a big museum here
that's chock full of great hardware to work on. Just sayin'.. ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
17 Aug
17 Aug
12:19 a.m.
On 2023-08-16 23:27, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 8/16/23 17:22, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
...and how much is online on HECnet? ;-)
Working on an 11/83 for a friend tonight. Got RSX installed. Working on
2.11BSD now. RT-11 and RSTS/E maybe later.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
I'm in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas (Fort
Worth specifically). I shut
down my MicroVAX and Alphas a couple weeks ago due to heat. Yesterday
and today marks the first break in 100+ degree days Since Aug 4th and
before that we had 21 days in a row above 100 including 6 consecutive
105+ days. Also yesterday and today we had overnight lows of 78 and
75. First time below 80 in 359 hours (14.95 days) a new record for
the area.
All temps are in Fahrenheit.
That's unbelievable. I hope all the hardware (and people)is/are ok.
Pittsburgh is nice, 74F currently, and we've got a big museum here
that's chock full of great hardware to work on. Just sayin'.. ;)
1:11 a.m.
On 8/16/23 18:19, Johnny Billquist wrote:
All networkable machines at LSSM that have DECnet protocol stacks are
configured with Area 61 addresses, and are functionally "on HECnet"
whenever they're powered up. There's also our "always-on" node, an
Itanium2 running VMS, which provides network services internally but is
also visible to HECnet.
Many of the "bigger" DEC machines are DECnet-enabled:
VAX-11/750 (VMS)
VAX-6000 (VMS)
VAX-7000 (VMS)
VAX-8250 (VMS)
PDP-11/70 (with a second coming soon) (RSX and RSTS)
PDP-11/44 (RSTS)
PDP-11/53 (RSTS)
PDP-11/73 (RSX, RSTS, RT11, and 2.11BSD)
PDP-11/83 (RSX)
DEC3000-300, -600, -800 Alphas (VMS)
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 for the
non-Plus RSX systems.)
Also a Systems Concepts SC-40, though it's not yet addressed on
DECnet. Some of our folks need to bone up on TOPS-20 admin skills
before we turn the public loose on that, but it's up 24/7.
Our Symbolics XL-1201 Lisp Machine has DECnet installed, and our
gaggle of Symbolics 3600-series machines will too, once we restore them.
And we're working on getting 4DDN working on an SGI running IRIX. I
personally am also working on an Ultrix-32 DECnet-enabled system disk
for a MicroVAX-II, which will be coming up soon. And I have a DEPCA
board sitting here, which will be used to implement DECnet-DOS on one of
the IBM PC-AT machines upstairs on the second floor, which is mostly
microcomputers.
That's about 5% of our on-exhibit machines. The rest don't have
DECnet protocol stacks. (IBM mainframes and midrange systems, Crays,
Transputer systems, Data General/Varian/Burroughs/HP minis)
So yes, wink all you want, my friend; we long ago adopted the "go big
or go home" mentality, and the proof is in the running machines and the
visitors practically passing out as soon as they walk through the front
door. B-)
Pittsburgh
is nice, 74F currently, and we've got a big museum here
that's chock full of great hardware to work on. Just sayin'.. ;)
...and how much is online on HECnet? ;-) Working on an 11/83 for a friend tonight. Got RSX
installed. Working on
2.11BSD now. RT-11 and RSTS/E maybe later.
Very nice!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
2:55 a.m.
On 2023-08-17 01:11, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 8/16/23 18:19, Johnny Billquist wrote:
All networkable machines at LSSM that have DECnet protocol stacks are
configured with Area 61 addresses, and are functionally "on HECnet"
whenever they're powered up. There's also our "always-on" node, an
Itanium2 running VMS, which provides network services internally but is
also visible to HECnet.
Execllent!
Pittsburgh is nice, 74F currently, and we've got a big museum here
that's chock full of great hardware to work on. Just sayin'.. ;)
...and how much is online on HECnet? ;-) 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.)
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...
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.
So yes, wink all you want, my friend; we long ago
adopted the "go big
or go home" mentality, and the proof is in the running machines and the
visitors practically passing out as soon as they walk through the front
door. B-)
:-)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
19 Aug
19 Aug
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.
20 Aug
20 Aug
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
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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. 
19 Aug
19 Aug
9:39 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023, Dave McGuire wrote:
home" mentality, and the proof is in the running
machines and the visitors
practically passing out as soon as they walk through the front door. B-)
I'll attest to that, as when I visited a good number of years ago (need to
rectify that....) what first ran through my head when I saw all of the
(working) machines was (if you'll excuse me...)
Holy shit!!
Fred
21 Aug
21 Aug
6:09 p.m.
On 8/19/23 15:39, Fred wrote:
Hahaaaa, thank you Fred! You really need to come back for a visit,
it has been a while. The guys and I have been very busy; we have a lot
more hardware up and running now.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
home"
mentality, and the proof is in the running machines and the
visitors practically passing out as soon as they walk through the
front door. B-)
I'll attest to that, as when I visited a good number of years ago (need
to rectify that....) what first ran through my head when I saw all of
the (working) machines was (if you'll excuse me...)
Holy shit!! 
17 Aug
17 Aug
2:35 a.m.
On 8/16/2023 4:22 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
I hate it when I do that. Originally sent directly to
Zane...
I'm in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas (Fort Worth specifically). I shut
down my MicroVAX and Alphas a couple weeks ago due to heat. Yesterday
and today marks the first break in 100+ degree days Since Aug 4th and
before that we had 21 days in a row above 100 including 6 consecutive
105+ days. Also yesterday and today we had overnight lows of 78 and
75. First time below 80 in 359 hours (14.95 days) a new record for
the area.
All temps are in Fahrenheit.
I'm in Houston. Pretty much all that you just said, and add in high
humidity as well. We don't go outside. Houston would be a great place to
recruit lunar colonists - we never go outside most of the year, and if
the life support systems fail (air conditioning) we immediately
recognize it as a life threatening emergency.
--
Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason(a)comcast.net
2:36 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
very quiet here; however, I see two nodes on ANF10 and
60 on DECnet on Area
31 ...
Had a nasty storm this past weekend, I have not acquired a Round-Tuit to
get my couple of SIMH systems up. Minimal damage, but I can't say that
for other neighbors. Some can see daylight in various rooms in their
houses. Fixed now, but there were multiple poles down. Power out from
Saturday 2PM->Sunday 8PM. I have a generator and the office is included,
but didn't want to waste fuel by running the systems. If it wouldn't have
been for 26 hours, maybe .... ;)
Fred
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