test-drb September 2004

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by cb＠mythtech.net

> Damm! We took a direct hit with hurricane Charlie. Then a NEAR miss >with hurricane Frances. (It took 4 1/2 > DAYS < to pass through!) Then >another narrow miss with hurricane Ivan. I just looked at the weather >forecast and now there's another one headed this way! Hurricane Jeanne is >expected to hit the east coast of Florida around Monday. Is somebody trying >to tell us something? One of the reports I was reading claimed that this is supposed to be the norm for the Florida area, and that you have just been lucky for the last few decades and haven't really had as many storms as you should have. But then, who trusts anything the weather service has to say :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

19 years, 10 months

Interesting article on UCSD Pascal team annual reunion

by jfoust＠threedee.com

http://alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol1no3/features/pascal.htm - John

19 years, 10 months

Digital Alchemy - The Ultimate Emulator?

by whdawson＠localisps.net

FWIW "A startup claims it has created software that lets programs run on any operating system?and any processor?without slowing down. Is the hype for real this time?" http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/wo_hellweg091704.asp?p=0 or http://tinyurl.com/3l3px

19 years, 10 months

more RSTS/E strangeness....

by ron.hudson＠sbcglobal.net

ooh no it's that Hudson fellow again. Someone take his PDP 11 away, he don't know how to use it.. There is a problem when I am logged to my RSTS/E(simh) in as [1,2]. I recently have been trying to edit my tty.cmd file, I am using teco, I edit the file making a change, I save the file with the teco command ex$$, ($=escape). Once out of teco I type tty.cmd to verify my changes. I then use pip to copy tty.cmd to tty.bak and tty.old . Then I shutdown RSTS/E and restart - to make sure my changes work. On reboot RSTS can't run tty.cmd - claims it can't even find it. Of course the startup procedure stops at that point so a lot of other things don't get done (loading error managers, spool managers, batch manager and defining CCL are the main things) While in this state directory (run $direct) cant find tty.* none of the tty files I copied remain.. I even tried saving a file named cmd.tty and it vanished too. I type a new tty.cmd from scratch (using teco or pip) and reboot and now **all** of them are back. 8^P What's up? I think I need a nice RSTS/E boot camp.

19 years, 10 months

Guess what the hurricane(s) left behind!

by aek＠spies.com

I found five of these in the same area a couple of years ago but they were missing the hard drive and there was no hope of finding the OS for them so I eventually scrapped them -- Was this before I found the copy of iRMX86 on eBay?

19 years, 10 months

Guess what the hurricane(s) left behind!

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Nice find Joe. Somewhere in my container I have a 330 and a 380 and the operating systems on 8" disk. It probably won't be this year that I get to them though. Paxton, Astoria, OR

19 years, 10 months

what are these errors in simh

by ron.hudson＠sbcglobal.net

Device DP23: does not interrupt - device disabled also for DP26, DP27 and DP30 ???

19 years, 10 months

rewriting legacy OS for new iron

by wacarder＠usit.net

Also, I know that the "identify yourself" page is probably annoying, but this was my tracking mechanism for keeping track of my buddies using the web site. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley Carder" <wacarder(a)usit.net> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:18 PM Subject: Re: rewriting legacy OS for new iron > I see that my www.woffordwitch.com site is getting a little traffic today. > Can you folks let me know if you have any difficulty with the site, or any > problems with pages rendering properly? I think that it's only been > tested using Internet Explorer on Windows, so this will be a good > shakedown with the variety of operating systems and browsers that > are used by the group here. I suppose I should update the site to > include some info on the *REAL* PDP-11 installation. I haven't made > any site updates since I moved the system from the simh simulator to > the real hardware. > > Thanks, > Ashley > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ashley Carder" <wacarder(a)usit.net> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:25 AM > Subject: RE: rewriting legacy OS for new iron > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org > > > [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Vintage Computer > > > Festival > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:08 AM > > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > > Subject: RE: rewriting legacy OS for new iron > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Ashley Carder wrote: > > > > > > > I have a RSTS/E system on the internet running under simh. It's late > > > > 1970s vintage, RSTS/E V7. Do you have a preference of an account > > > > number that you would like me to set up for you? (no, don't ask for a > > > > privileged account yet!) Mine is a recreation of the Wofford College > > > > system of 1977-79. For more info, go to http://www.woffordwitch.com. > > > > I also have this system SYSGENed on RL02 packs and running on a real > > > > PDP-11/34. > > > > > > Ashley, > > > > > > That is a very cool website! > > > > Thanks. It was originally put together just for my old college buddies > > and retired professor, but I'll share it with the rest of you folks. I > > need to update it to include some info and pictures of my real PDP-11 > > computer center that is now growing and coming along quite nicely. > > > > Ashley > > > > > -- > > > > > > Sellam Ismail Vintage > > > Computer Festival > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------ > > > International Man of Intrigue and Danger > > > http://www.vintage.org > > > > > > [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage > > > Computers ] > > > [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at > > > http://marketplace.vintage.org ] > > > > > > > > >

19 years, 10 months

RSTS/E Question

by ron.hudson＠sbcglobal.net

I remember a file that can be put in the user's login directory that is run as a part of the login, like LOGIN.COM in a vax or the .profile under unix. What is the name of the file?

19 years, 10 months

KDJ11-B in a PDP-11/23 backplane?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Sep 16 2004, 21:22, David Betz wrote: > Thanks everyone for your advice on using a KDJ11-B in a PDP-11/23. > Unfortunately, I lost (by a mile!) the eBay auction where I was bidding > on the KDJ11-B so I guess I won't be doing this upgrade anytime soon. > Would it be better to look for a KDJ11-A instead? Maybe. It doesn't have the on-board SLUs, LTC, or bootstrap, of course, so you'll need some other serial port for your console (as you have at present, on your MXV11) and bootstrap (ditto). You'd also need a line time clock signal for some OSs (RT-11 won't mind but others will). > I assume that would > work as-is with my backplane. Would I need a new bootstrap though? I'm > currently using a MXV11 (M8047-CA) to boot an RX02 drive. Will that > work with the KDJ11-A CPU? It'll work fine, but you might want a different bootstrap, for which that MXV11-A won't really do. None of the standard KDJ11 bootstraps will fit (the ROM space on it is too small, and the mapping is wrong) and the memory is only 18-bit. You can disable the memory, and/or the bootstrap, but that doesn't leave much! If you could find an MXV11-B (M7195) instead, that would do nicely, but you don't actually need one. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

19 years, 10 months

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test-drb September 2004