>My DEC Pro has an ethernet card (DECNA) and POS has Pro/DECnet freely available.
>As far as I can tell, there isn't any TCP/IP software for it. (But, if someone
>knows of any, please let us know!).
If you abandon POS, and instead install RT-11 (the best way, of course,
is to buy RT-11 5.7, with all the Y2K hooks for the Pro realtime clock),
you can put Alan Baldwin's TCP/IP for RT-11 on it quite easily. See
http://shop-pdp.kent.edu/
(itself a RT-11 machine with a http server) for details.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
I saw a line from him just a couple of days ago.
Dick
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> From: Sellam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Hans Franke?
> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 4:21 AM
>
>
> Did Hans Franke die or something? I haven't heard even a peep from that
> loquacious Bavarian in a while.
>
> Maybe John Zabolitzky has heard from him in the past few weeks?
>
> Christian, do you have his telephone number by any chance?
>
> Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
>
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--
> Always hasslin' the man.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 02/15/99]
However, that faux-pax (sp?) leads me into letting people know that
I have been working on compiling a list of all the DEC handbooks
(pdp-8, pdp-11, vaxen, whatever) that I have, along with as much
information about each that I can glean...
If you check my home_systems page, there will be a link off of it to
the list...
So far, the earliest handbook I've found in my collection is a
1967 small computer handbook.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Hi -- I just sent you my latest list. While compiling it, I noticed
that it appears as though some books were published by various groups.
Like the IBG (Installed base group), LDP (Laboratory data products
group), the Logic Products Group, and educational services -- to name
a few.
I may have to go back through my collection so far and see if I can
determine this information for each of the books...
Megan
Did Hans Franke die or something? I haven't heard even a peep from that
loquacious Bavarian in a while.
Maybe John Zabolitzky has heard from him in the past few weeks?
Christian, do you have his telephone number by any chance?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Always hasslin' the man.
Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 02/15/99]
Hi people!
Somebody brought my web page to the attention of ex-Commodore engineer
George Robbins (as seen in the "Deathbed Vigil" video ;) ), and he had
something interesting to say about the Hyperion:
GR> Commodore actually bought rights to the Hyperion design and there were
GR> a couple floating around West Chester. The design served as the basis
GR> for the first 8088 based PC-clones that Commodore manufactured, though
GR> they ended up in normal desktop cases. The next generation was based
GR> much more directly on the IBM PC's (probably for 100% compatibility)
GR> then we started making our own customer chips/asic to get the cost down
GR> before switching to industry standard "chipsets" for 286-486 designs.
GR> In the end it was cheaper to just buy and resell clones from HK.
GR>
GR> On of my tasks at Commodore before the Amiga stuff took over was to
GR> make a comparison of the Hyperion design and our current PC design to
GR> "prove" that we weren't using any of the Hyperion proprietary design
GR> features and there was no reason we should continue paying them
GR> royalties on every PC we sold. 8-)
As for the Commodore Hyperion in Jim Brain's Canonical List of Commodore
Computer Equipment, Mr. Robbins was only able to say that maybe Commodore
Canada sold Hyperions with the Commodore label as part of the deal. He
has no direct knowledge of Commodore selling Hyperions in the form that
Dynalogic made them.
Does anyone on this list have a Commodore-branded Hyperion?
--
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 24 February 1999 17:23
Subject: Re: Vax! (and epilogue on teledisk)
>CMUIP doesn't have working NFS,
No it doesn't, technically, I believe there are unofficial patches that
partially fix it, though I'm not sure how well.
>and it's been my experience that the FTP included with it is less than
stellar.
Last version is somewhat better, however the Madgoat FTP offering is
infinitely superior. (And still freeware)
>Personally I'd like to see OpenVMS (VAX/Alpha), NAS-150, Motif, and the
>languages at a minimum made available for hobbiests. Let's face it, they
>need as many people as possible running the stuff.
Seconded. Lack of (amongst other things) a C compiler (Gcc is not fabulous
under VMS imho) is a major headache, and the Decpaq pricing structure is not
likely to encourage private ownership. Access to UCX for hobbyist users
would also be a good thing, but I think the Motif problem is not going to be
that easy, as it involves crosslicensing from elsewhere, which means it
would cost Decpaq money to give away hobbyist licenses. That this would
undoubtably be a PR victory for them may not be sufficient incentive.
That's my understanding of the situation anyway.
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au
