On January 31, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> Also, has anybody ever run a VAX11 in PDP mode for real? Sound
> pretty wild to me to spend so much money only to not use the
> virtual memory.
The only use of the vax11's pdp11 compatibility mode that I've ever
heard of was to run RSX-11 binaries under VMS.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Some reseller on eBay evidently brought out his stash - he's selling
several hundred SIMMs in lots of 4. He seems to have a lot of
complaints - 197 negatives of 4900 feedbacks - but $15 for 64M ain't a
bad gamble....
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1328405102
Doc
Hi, my last question for today is about Kermit on VMS. Last
night I tried to get CMUIP ("OpenCMU" :-) onto my VAX so
I could finally get access to faster file transfer. But the
old frogs on both sides didn't want to play nice. After
having transferred 99% of the data, they would seem to get
into a fight over the very last packet. Ultimately the
server (on VAX) would abort with retry counter expired. Kermit
on FreeBSD was nice to give me all sorts of tweaks on the
settings but nothing helped. Why the last block? If I were
on UNIX I would have just send one more block and then stripped
that off again, but on VMS I'm so blind.
What happens without this last block is that LZDCMP.EXE will
say there's a problem with the archive and never really
extract anything useful.
How can I make kermit behave?
And, will CMUIP066 even run on VMS 7.2 (or so)?
thanks
-Gunther
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> Speaking of which, does anyone know where to get controllers and/or
> drives to use ESDI on QBus based VAXen?
No, but I recommend looking for Webster WQESD/4 controllers. They're a
dream! Of course I'd more recommend them for a PDP-11, for a MicroVAX, and
old ESDI controller should do.
The reason I like WQESD/4 controllers is that they can partition the drive
into multiple disks, and you can boot any partition under something like
RT-11. Should even be able to do different OS's, but I've not tried it.
Zane
> ----------
> From: Doc
>
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> But I think that in a day or 2 I'll probably be tied for the
> *smallest* classic Unix box in the house. Part of this weekend's haul
> was an SE/30, I found an ethernet adapter today, and I went to storage
> this evening and dug out the 4M 30-pin SIMM stash. A/UX here I come....
>
> Doc
>
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Doc ---
Well, if I have my way, my Gateway Handbook will be a smaller Unix
box... 10" x 6" x 1.5" ;-)
And it just squeaks by 10 years old too ( I think, maybe 9...)
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Bondwell's were clam-shell style portables from the mid- to late-80s.
Sally has one up for grabs. Contact her if you want it.
Reply-to: Lsweetlgs(a)aol.com
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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:37:59 EST
From: Lsweetlgs(a)aol.com
Subject: Computer
I am trying to find out about a 78 Bondwell Portable computer Model 18 if
it is worth anything or anyone would want it. I just want to place it
somewhere out of my closet.
Thank you
Sally
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On February 2, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> OK, the question of the day is, what is a 'HP 5371A Frequency and Time
> Interval Analyzer', and what is it used for. I just got one minus the two
> pods. It looks to be in perfect condition, doesn't even look like it's
> really been used.
I've got one of those. It's a really sweet box.
I use it for characterizing oscillator stability. It can tell you all
you ever wanted to know, and then some, about an oscillator's
frequency stability...as well as measure the simple things like its
absolute frequency, duty cycle, and stuff like that. It can also
compare two oscillators against each other, and other stuff in that
category.
I could really use another one, let me know if you're interested in a
trade.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
OK, the question of the day is, what is a 'HP 5371A Frequency and Time
Interval Analyzer', and what is it used for. I just got one minus the two
pods. It looks to be in perfect condition, doesn't even look like it's
really been used.
Zane
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| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Toth,
Oh, sure. Rub it in to us Houston guys......
: )
- Matt
At 11:25 PM 2/1/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On February 1, Tothwolf wrote:
> > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2000135437
> > >
> > > LOL...I passed up on about 30 of these at ~$5ea back in '98.
> > >
> > > Maybe that guy bought them? ;)
> >
> > Now that's a deal I would have taken. $5/ea is pretty amazing.
>
>Well, I had just spent $500 on everything else, and I was lacking room to
>store anything else :)
>
>I wish I had known folks in the Houston area at the time tho, I would have
>certainly passed the deal on to someone else.
>
>-Toth
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