I was just poking around on the net, killing some time while watching
something I've got running at work, so I decided to see what I could dig up
on VMS. Anyway I just found a *very* interesting page.
http://www.danielcurran.com/vms/vms_hist.html
It has release dates and major feature changes from V1 - V7.2. BTW, for
those that don't know V7.3 was released a couple months ago. Anyway it's
an interesting page.
It looks like http://www.danielcurran.com/vms/ might be worth looking
through also. Such as http://www.danielcurran.com/vms/vms_hw.html which
lists minimum OS versions for the various systems.
Anyway I don't know who dug all this info up and created these pages, but
they look to have a bunch of info I've been looking for, for a long time.
Zane
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Pick up in south-central PA or at VCF East. Some of this stuff I could
possibly ship.
TRS-80 CoCo 2
CoCo 2 box (medoiocre condition)
CCR-82 Cassette Recorder w/cable
Introducing Your Color Computer 2
Getting Started with Extended Color BASIC
Extended BASIC Quick Reference
Carts:
Color File II w/booklet & case
Personal Finance II w/booklet & case
Commodore VIC-20
AC adapter
unusual-looking (to me) RF modulator
Carts:
Adventure Land
Mole Attack
Voodoo Castle
Number Nabber, Shape Grabber
River Rescue
TRS-80 CoCo 3. I could have sworn I didn't own one of these. It's in
the original box, which is in decent condition.
TRS-80 Model 4
Getting Started with TRS-80 BASIC for Models I & III
C64 in box w/a bunch of manuals and 'Books of Commodore'. And I think
I've got another three Commdores, too, two of which I'm pretty certain
are the newer Platinum variation. I had no idea I had so many 64's.
These things are worse than rabbits.
IBM Convertible w/brand-new-in-box power adapter.
IBM Convertible w/battery unit & brand-new-in-box power adapter.
Stuff I'm looking for:
Apple & Mac clones
Interesting Apple stuff
NeXT cube
Apple II (plain II)
LEGO stuff (blocks or electronics)
Tom
Applefritter
www.applefritter.com
Well the two tricks that I hadn't caught on to was that you have to install
the "workstation support" files, and after installing Motif you have to run
AUTOGEN again so that it can mess with your parameters. Then it comes up to
the window system. Very nice.
--Chuck
gwynp(a)artware.qc.ca wrote:
> On 06-Jul-2001 Wolfgang.Eichberger(a)bps.at wrote:
> > Hi. I'm searching for some HPUX docs and software for the HP 9020.
> > I think HPUX 5.? is still running...
>
> http://hpux.asknet.de/ might interest you.
It's unlikely. Wolfgang is asking about an HP 9000/520 aka 9020.
It's one of HP's first 9000s, sort of an early workstation, and was
well on its way to obsolescence in the early 1990s. The processor
architecture is a 32-bit stack machine called FOCUS, and it's nothing
like a Motorola 68000 nor HP PA-RISC.
And it's been frustrating open-source types for years. Here's
what etc/MACHINES file from the GNU Emacs distribution has had
to say for a long time now:
# HP 9000 series 500: not supported.
#
# The series 500 has a seriously incompatible memory architecture
# which relocates data in memory during execution of a program,
# and support for it would be difficult to implement.
-Frank McConnell
I think it's really unfortunate that Mr. Erlacher finds it necessary
hijack the list
with this ridiculous rhetoric. It's just totally beyond me why someone
would want to
speak in this fashion. I find the lack of importance Mr. Erlacher
assigns to basic
concepts such as liberty, individuality, and respect for human life
appalling.
We've all probably lived long enough to know that governments oftentimes
get confused
and start to drift from what they're supposed to be doing (keeping basic
order) to
legislating trivial and personal areas of human life. I'd prefer not to
have every
element of my life dictated by corrupt old men and off-the-wall special
interest
groups, so on occasion, I find it necessary to work around some of the
more
ridiculous instances of government spew.
There are definitely things that are wrong because they hurt others and
set back
progress made by society, and punishments should be in place to dissuade
people
>from doing things like this. If you think it's necessary, however, to
slaughter
everyone who's ever done five over on the highway or smoked a joint, I'd
be
inclined to wonder what terrible abuse you must have lived through to
think in
this manner.
Really, though, this is the "classic computer collector mailing list",
not the
"ultratotalitarian politics list", so as a few other people are starting
to say
as well, could we please just lay this one to rest? It's accomplishing
nothing,
save for making a lot of people very offended and angry.
Thanks,
--Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net
While at the thrift on Thursday I found a Singer Friden EC 1117A
electronic calculator for $1.99 plus tax. Also got non working Hitron
laptop for $4.99. Picked up about 20 books with alot of them being HP
calculator manuals. Almost forgot a Toshiba T5100 cost all of $2. Other
than the hand full of mousepads that was it for the week. Hope to hit
two big auctions next week looking for a few goodies.
Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> wrote:
> As I understand it the Computer Museum History Center brought up SpaceWar
> on a PDP-1 to demonstrate it before some patent attorneys who used it as
> 'prior art' to invalidate some video game patents.
IIRC, TCM's PDP-1 failed to power up at some time while still at TCM
in Boston. (Early-mid 1990s?) It is now at Moffett Field, and there
is (or was recently) interest in restoring it to functionality.
-Frank McConnell
In search of 4 DRAM chips for video expansion on built-in S3 card. The ones
in it are 44C256 at 60 ns and the 4 empty DIP sockets are 20 pin (10 pins
each side). Anyone have 4 in their stash and want to part with them - and if
so how much?
Please email direct.
I just got *large* pile of TK50 tapes from my neighbor, most of which
aren't that interesting. However, one is labled as follows:
AQ-FT37C-BN 056222
MICROVMS/WS V3.0 BIN TK50
COPYRIGHT 1986
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
What is it?
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Does anyone know how to telnet to the DEC server 700 and then connect
through it to one of the serial ports? I can connect to it with the default
password, then I get the Local> prompt and can't figure out how to connect
me to port7 which is currently hooked to the console of a VAX...
--Chuck
