Joe, perhaps others know about that: my knowledge about TOPS is zero. You night want to discuss it with the folks at alt,sys.pdp10 Hans Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel From: Joe Ferraro <jferraro at gmail.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:14:16 -0400 To: <hecnet at update.uu.se> ReplyTo: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness.... While we are on the topic, does anyone have any experience with TOPS-20 / DECNET? I've haven't had time to mess with it of late, but I was unsuccessful in a previous evening's attempt or two. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote: On 12 Jul 2011, at 21:48, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: I know there's a DECNet kit for Linux out there somewhere. Not sure about anything else. Nothing crops up on a quick Google search that isn't dated early 90s. The hardware is generally pretty unique (save for it's similarity in patches to PPC Macs) - all IBM stuff generally is. The OS is proprietary but you can pick up media kits off eBay for not a lot. Also IBM documentation, certainly for RS/6000 / pSeries hardware and AIX, is readily available online without even needing a login. -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..."