7 Mar
2019
7 Mar
'19
3:31 p.m.
Hello,
Been a few years with an Email address change and a personal change, I'm
now retired.
Still have a boat load of MicroVAXen both Qbus and 3100 series, Qbus-11s
and PDP-8f.
Other than that more than a few CP/M boxes.
Maybe I can get the bridge going as FIOS, I did that years ago has a
stable address.
Allison/former mill rat and owner of VIdsys: a former mill/DSG/OGO
uVAXII/GPX system.
7 Mar
7 Mar
4:04 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
Welcome fellow Mill Rat!
RT-11 Engineering Alumnus
1983-1986
MLO5-5
-Steve Davidson
SF:iP1
On Mar 7, 2019, at 09:31, allison <allisonportable
at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Been a few years with an Email address change and a personal change, I'm
now retired.
Still have a boat load of MicroVAXen both Qbus and 3100 series, Qbus-11s
and PDP-8f.
Other than that more than a few CP/M boxes.
Maybe I can get the bridge going as FIOS, I did that years ago has a
stable address.
Allison/former mill rat and owner of VIdsys: a former mill/DSG/OGO
uVAXII/GPX system.
4:38 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
On 03/07/2019 10:04 AM, Steve Davidson wrote:
Welcome fellow Mill Rat!
RT-11 Engineering Alumnus
1983-1986
MLO5-5
-Steve Davidson
Hi Steve,
1983 to 1993 ML5-3,PK3-1, ML3-6, DSG1-2, OGO1-2
Still withing a 15 minute drive to what was PK3, now a field, Mill
still looks like the mill from the outside.
Terminal& printers then HIPS High speed Internet Printing Systems
LPS40,LPS20, and LAPS
Still an RT-11 user V5.4, systems run from LSI-11 through 11/73 all
Qbus.? Large stock of SCSI and MFM disks to keep things alive.
Been on hecnet list for years going back to DSL and early Fiber connect.
Then Verizon decided maybe two years ago to stop being a email
provider and I jumped to Gmail.? That dropped me off the list, things
got busy and have finally slowed.? Finally remembered to wake up
majordomo.
Large collection of real machines and maybe considering putting a
SIMH-VAX on a Asus Tinkerboard.? Haven't played with SIMH as I have
the real ones but even the little 3100s use a bit of power.
Later,
Allison
SF:iP1
> On Mar 7, 2019, at 09:31, allison <allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Been a few years with an Email address change and a personal change, I'm
> now retired.
>
> Still have a boat load of MicroVAXen both Qbus and 3100 series, Qbus-11s
> and PDP-8f.
> Other than that more than a few CP/M boxes.
>
> Maybe I can get the bridge going as FIOS, I did that years ago has a
> stable address.
>
> Allison/former mill rat and owner of VIdsys: a former mill/DSG/OGO
> uVAXII/GPX system.
>
4:50 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
On Mar 7, 2019, at 7:38 AM, allison
<allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
Been on hecnet list for years going back to DSL and early Fiber connect.
Then Verizon decided maybe two years ago to stop being a email
provider and I jumped to Gmail. That dropped me off the list, things
got busy and have finally slowed. Finally remembered to wake up
majordomo.
That would explain why I thought you were here already.
Large collection of real machines and maybe
considering putting a
SIMH-VAX on a Asus Tinkerboard. Haven't played with SIMH as I have
the real ones but even the little 3100s use a bit of power.
I finally gave in a little over a year ago, and started using SIMH-VAX, in part as part of
a plan to be able to get VMS back up and running here at home, without the power
requirements of my XP1000/667. End result, for the first time in about 18 years I have a
cluster running again at home, but the XP1000 is still running most of the time. :-) I
find SIMH to be quite nice, and the instance running on my i7 ESXI server is the fastest
VAX I have. The second fastest is my DECnet area router a VAXstation 4000/60 (which I
still need to virtualize).
I?d have probably made better progress on virtualizing my VMS setup, if I hadn?t gotten
distracted by Multics running on the DPS-8/M emulator. It may not be GCOS-8, but at least
it?s running on a DPS-8! :-) It definitely amuses me to have a DPS-8 the size if a deck
of cards (Raspberry Pi 3+).
Zane
6:56 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
On 03/07/2019 10:50 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
Hi Zane,
Been a classic comp member for eons as well. and before all that
alt.sys.* and other usenet groups.
Been gone
a few years but the archive was saved and goes back to 2010.
The tinkerboard? is an ARM based on the Rpi format only 1.8GHz quad
core
and 2gig of ram.
I figure that will be adequate for an under 10 watt system.
My non-intel/amd steampunk laptop is a rpi3b with 10inch display and
real keyboard and mouse in a wood box.
Plenty of compute power.
On Mar 7,
2019, at 7:38 AM, allison <allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
Been on hecnet list for years going back to DSL and early Fiber connect.
Then Verizon decided maybe two years ago to stop being a email
provider and I jumped to Gmail. That dropped me off the list, things
got busy and have finally slowed. Finally remembered to wake up
majordomo.
That would explain why I thought you were here already. Large
collection of real machines and maybe considering putting a
SIMH-VAX on a Asus Tinkerboard. Haven't played with SIMH as I have
the real ones but even the little 3100s use a bit of power.
I finally gave in a
little over a year ago, and started using SIMH-VAX, in part as part of a plan to be able
to get VMS back up and running here at home, without the power requirements of my
XP1000/667. End result, for the first time in about 18 years I have a cluster running
again at home, but the XP1000 is still running most of the time. :-) I find SIMH to be
quite nice, and the instance running on my i7 ESXI server is the fastest VAX I have. The
second fastest is my DECnet area router a VAXstation 4000/60 (which I still need to
virtualize). I?d have probably made better progress on virtualizing
my VMS setup, if I hadn?t gotten distracted by Multics running on the DPS-8/M emulator.
It may not be GCOS-8, but at least it?s running on a DPS-8! :-) It definitely amuses me
to have a DPS-8 the size if a deck of cards (Raspberry Pi 3+).
;)
Allison
Zane
8 Mar
8 Mar
2:54 a.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
On Mar 7, 2019, at 9:56 AM, allison
<allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/07/2019 10:50 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
Hi Zane,
Been a classic comp member for eons as well. and before all that
alt.sys.* and other usenet groups.
Hi Allison,
I think your one of the few folks that have been on Classiccmp longer than me. I?m pretty
sure you were helping with some of my PDP-8 and PDP-11 questions 20+ years ago.
The tinkerboard is an ARM based on the Rpi format
only 1.8GHz quad core
and 2gig of ram.
I figure that will be adequate for an under 10 watt system.
My guess is that you?ll find is has VAXstation 3100 CPU speeds, though the disk I/O is
likely a bit faster (I?ve not done any serious benchmarking). I have 3 RPi?s, the RPi2 is
a ?VAX?, one RPi3+ is a "DPS-8/M?, and the other a ?KL10B?. I?m finding that I
finally prefer the lower power, and the lower worry of emulation. :-)
Zane
2:44 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
On 03/07/2019 08:54 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Hi Zane,
Like have or at least commented.? Helps o have hardware, I've run E11,
great product but the fans and disks
and it just doesn't seem the same.
Its more compact for sure.? I'm in th stage of considering thinning the
herd some as I'm also ham radio
and well, space.
Allison
On Mar 7,
2019, at 9:56 AM, allison <allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/07/2019 10:50 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
Hi Zane,
Been a classic comp member for eons as well. and before all that
alt.sys.* and other usenet groups.
Hi Allison,
I think your one of the few folks that have been on Classiccmp longer than me. I?m
pretty sure you were helping with some of my PDP-8 and PDP-11 questions 20+ years ago.
The
tinkerboard is an ARM based on the Rpi format only 1.8GHz quad core
and 2gig of ram.
I figure that will be adequate for an under 10 watt system.
My guess is that
you?ll find is has VAXstation 3100 CPU speeds, though the disk I/O is likely a bit faster
(I?ve not done any serious benchmarking). I have 3 RPi?s, the RPi2 is a ?VAX?, one RPi3+
is a "DPS-8/M?, and the other a ?KL10B?. I?m finding that I finally prefer the lower
power, and the lower worry of emulation. :-)
Zane 
7 Mar
7 Mar
5:26 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
Allison,
I also wish you a warm welcome to HECnet. I am also primarily a Qbus
PDP-11 fan with CPUs including 11/23, 11/23+, 11/73, 11/83 and a
Mentec M100-04 (11/93). I mostly use RSX but a bit of RT-11 mostly on
MINC. One thing I would love to find is
RT-11 DECnet. It was a Phase III implementation but would still
connect to Phase IV RSX systems (just not on ethernet) and be a big
improvement over Kermit on a serial line.
Also, for anyone interested, the RT-11 FEP/FRP package has been
recovered for RT-11. There is also supposed to be a RSX version of it
but it was not widely used and is still lost.
Best,
Mark Matlock
On 3/7/19, allison <allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/07/2019 10:04 AM, Steve Davidson wrote:
Welcome fellow Mill Rat!
RT-11 Engineering Alumnus
1983-1986
MLO5-5
-Steve Davidson
Hi Steve,
1983 to 1993 ML5-3,PK3-1, ML3-6, DSG1-2, OGO1-2
Still withing a 15 minute drive to what was PK3, now a field, Mill
still looks like the mill from the outside.
Terminal& printers then HIPS High speed Internet Printing Systems
LPS40,LPS20, and LAPS
Still an RT-11 user V5.4, systems run from LSI-11 through 11/73 all
Qbus. Large stock of SCSI and MFM disks to keep things alive.
Been on hecnet list for years going back to DSL and early Fiber connect.
Then Verizon decided maybe two years ago to stop being a email
provider and I jumped to Gmail. That dropped me off the list, things
got busy and have finally slowed. Finally remembered to wake up
majordomo.
Large collection of real machines and maybe considering putting a
SIMH-VAX on a Asus Tinkerboard. Haven't played with SIMH as I have
the real ones but even the little 3100s use a bit of power.
Later,
Allison
SF:iP1
> On Mar 7, 2019, at 09:31, allison <allisonportable at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Been a few years with an Email address change and a personal change, I'm
> now retired.
>
> Still have a boat load of MicroVAXen both Qbus and 3100 series, Qbus-11s
> and PDP-8f.
> Other than that more than a few CP/M boxes.
>
> Maybe I can get the bridge going as FIOS, I did that years ago has a
> stable address.
>
> Allison/former mill rat and owner of VIdsys: a former mill/DSG/OGO
> uVAXII/GPX system.
>
5:36 p.m.
New subject: Welcome to hecnet
Welcome!
I?m not a Mill Rat, but I did spend the day after Christmas there running a
customer benchmark. I had a parka and gloves on because it was bitterly
cold, and I couldn?t figure out how to close the industrial windows.
Frank
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