Following up on my previous posting, I've been made aware that all of the
DECUS RSX Sig tapes are already available on-line. Cool. I thought I was
going to have my 15 minutes of fame.
I'm going to pursue the possibility that it's legal to post the RSX11M+ v
3.0 distribution on-line. I think I'd like to have a signed agreement with
Mentec that this will be okay. I don't want someone to introduce me to the
DMCA the hard way :-). Hopefully Mentec will answer my email. I can handle
the legal side of this (it's a good thing my father is a retired attorney),
but could someone give me some hints as to the technical side of posting the
tapes? There are two tapes, one is the distribution, and the other is
standalone BRU.
Well, I also have DECnet, DECmail and update E tapes as well... I'll keep
you posted.
Thanks,
Bill
Well, I was planning on having a big party on Sept 1st but now it looks
like I'm booked, however, if there are any other numerologists out there,
note that this date is an auspicious date for having an EMERGENCY party
The date is 9-1-1
and it falls on a SATURDAY
Is that cool or what?
--Chuck
(normally I have my emergency party on the 11th)
Please disregard this message if you don't get it. Thanks.
At 11:57 PM 7/20/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, I was planning on having a big party on Sept 1st but now it looks
>like I'm booked, however, if there are any other numerologists out there,
>note that this date is an auspicious date for having an EMERGENCY party
> The date is 9-1-1
> and it falls on a SATURDAY
>Is that cool or what?
And don't forget that there's several more
opportunities this year for BINARY day parties:
10/1/1, 11/11/1, etc
From: Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
>I wondered where you'd gone.
Yep, 2400 is far too slow for that much mail.
>> FYI: there were 1810 messages all but 9 were from Classiccmp...
>> thats a bit much, no?
>
>Yes, but you arguably didn't miss too much :-)
>From the 2% audit of what went in the trash can I'd agree.
Allison
Tony wrote:
> More seriously, that's why I've not made a cleanbox yet. The drives I
> want to be able to work on, and the ones I am likely to have some chance
> of fixing are things like the 14" SA4000 units. Which need a _large_
> cleanbox. And, like everyone here, I have little enough space...
I think you've a second problem besides the size issue, being able to handle
something that big in a cleanbox seems rather impractical. It might work
for 5.25" or 8" HD's, but I don't see it working for a 14" HD. How on earth
could you get the leverage or whatever to crack it open!
Zane
If it is any comfort John, yours is not an isolated experience.
With regards to my recent rescue of all the NeXT stuff. It was rescued
>from an "institution of higher learning". It was removed from service
around 5 years ago. They decided at the time to have a 'yard sale' and
include these machines. That never happened, and after 5 years they
decided to rid themselves of it.
If that were an isolated case I wouldn't mind. After all I got to rescue
the stuff. The gotcha is that they just decommissioned all their DEC
hardware. You can darn well bet by now all docs, tapes, etc. have been
pitched. On my last visit I asked if any of the DEC was available.
The response was that they had just decided to put it all the DEC in a
yard sale. Oh Joy! So those DECstations, VAXstations, Infoserver(s),
Alphas, and who knows what else are going to sit in a warehouse somewhere
until who knows when. And I know from the NeXT experience that they will
be picked over, and in some cases there won't be enough of a given machine
left to even sell to the recyclers.
Given the four "institutions of higher learning" in this town, I have
worked for one full time, taught at another part time, and dealt with
the other two with regards to equipment rescues. I have come to the
conclusion the higher learning does not create greater smarts, and
in most cases lessens the amount of common sense. I suspect that
a boot full of common sense would not help, even with instructions
on how to use written on the bottom.
That's my opinion, and I'm stickin' to it.
Mike
> I don't have a network card, but if all goes well a GVP
> Spectrum graphics card is going into it. BTW, 3.9 includes a bunch
> of AVI's and a few MP3's on the CD to test the various media players
> with, as well as an audio track. I'm not planning on upgrading any
> of the other custom chips unless I find I have to, such as the Buster.
There are MP3 players for 68k Amiga's?!?! That's either rather gutsy, or
pathetic, I'm not sure which. What do they do, decode them to another
format and then play them?
> Mine's going underneathe my NEC monitor and sharing it with
> the G3. This little Multisync C400 has certainly seen it's share of
> various computers since I bought it in '96!
The monitors I've got would probably crush a A3000! I might be able to put
it in the wooden rack next to the desk, but the PDP-8/m sits where it would
need to go, and I'm going to need to find more room in the rack for a
PDP-8/e and Papertape reader/punch.
OTOH, I might be able to stuff it under the A2002 Monitor I've got hooked up
to a dead VCR (I use the combo for a TV in the computer room.
> I'm going to use mine as a backup system as well as one to
> handle those times when I just feel the urge ot use an Amiga. The
> fact that it doesn't depend on anything MS is nice too. You could
> also use it as a Linux box too. It'd be cool to fix the kernel panic
> on mine when booting into Linux, but that's a low priority. I think
> I saw some of the distro files still on the hard disk when I was
> moving stuff around on the Amiga partition.
Don't need a backup system, and I've no desire to run Linux on anything but
a fast x86 box. So I'm still trying to come up with a use for it. That was
one of the reasons I bought it a Catweasel, however, the board didn't
function as advertised thanks to the lack of software for it. Of course the
Catweasel board is also why it's sitting in a monster ALR Server Tower at
the moment!
Zane
>
> > MicroVAX 3600
> > uVAX 1000
> > RA81 (2)
> > RA90
>
> >From personal experience I would say $50 is too little
> and $250 is too much, tho I've never heard of a
> uVAX 1000. Next commentator?
>
> John A.
>
>
I'd say $100 max. In some ways he should be paying you to remove the
RA81's!
As for the uVAX 1000, a couple thoughts come to mind... One is an
Infoserver 1000 (which definitly exists) the other, scratching around in the
back of my mind, is some model of VAXft (which probably doesn't exist). One
thing to remember is that there are a couple oddball models you don't ever
hear about, however, I've never heard of a uVAX 1000.
Zane
On Jul 20, 19:24, ajp166 wrote:
> I'm back, if anyone noticed.
>
> DSL and Phone modem cooked on June 30th put me off the air save
> my 2400 baud pocket modem.
I wondered where you'd gone.
> FYI: there were 1810 messages all but 9 were from Classiccmp...
> thats a bit much, no?
Yes, but you arguably didn't miss too much :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On July 20, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Well, for some folks, maybe. If someone sticks me in a project with a
> > crappy OS, I will find the source and fix it (unless it's Windoze, of
> > course, but I don't consider that an OS!)...whereas if someone sticks
> > me with a crappy processor, well, there's little one can do.
>
> Err, find the schematics and fix it. Oh, you meant a microprocessor.... :-)
;) *poke*
-Dave McGuire
