Hello,
I received this request for help and was wondering if any one could offer
any suggestions.
I am not too familar with RSX.
Max
From: "Dr.M.S.Moni" <moni at iitm.ac.in>
Dear Sir,
I am using an old pdp/11/73 (LSI 11/73) without
network/lan/ card. The OS is RSX11M. Only an 8" floppy
drive is avilable. I recently bought a DEQNA card
withot any installation instructions. I do not have any
file transfer program in my PDP. I tried to use the
serial port to communicate to a PC without any sucess.
I would like to install the DEQNA and use some FTP or
Kermit software to transfer data from the PDP hard disk
to a PC. How do I do it and where can I get the
necesary software? Is it freely available or on
payment? Since I am not an expert in computers I may
need detailed instructions. Can you please help me? I
shall be much obliged.
-Dr.M.S.Moni
Sorry to have to break this news. I just learned this tonight. I have no
other details.
;(
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Dear Friends,
Jef died this evening, surrounded by friends and
family, with some favorite music playing. While I am
overcome by a profound sense of sadness and am not
looking forward the the days, weeks and years ahead
without him, I am also relieved that he did not suffer
for a long time and that he is at peace and no longer
in pain.
There will be a memorial service, time and date to be
determined.
Much love-
Linda
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 08:06:38PM -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
> I think I can say something here because I am drawing the PCB for my
> project. A good free CAD software is the gEDA suit, including gschem
> (schematic), gsch2pcb(schematic to PCB translator), gerbv (Gerber
> viewer), and pcb (PCB). It is time for you guys to install linux in
> your computer since you guys are computer geeks anyway!
A friend uses PCB heavily for his work, and PCB has been used for some
fairly high projects. It looks like good stuff. I've only fiddled with
it though.
But, I'd like to point out that the stuff will run on Solaris and likely
other OSs. No need to install linux just for that.
> The cheap double side PCB will cost you $33 each
> (http://www.33each.com) for 3 boards, and could be lower than $10 for
> 44 square inch boards with quantity of 100.
Sounds like a reasonable price.
--
Joshua D. Boyd
jdboyd at jdboyd.nethttp://www.jdboyd.net/http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
>
> "T" was taken (Transformer). That was also a problem when tubes began being=
> =20
> used. I think they use X for tubes, don't they?
Normally 'V' Certainly in UK manuals -- we call them 'valves', but HP and
Tekky also use 'V'.
-tony
Nico de Jong mused:
>> It could be interesting to know the age"spread" of thist list
>> contributors, and how long we've had the computer virus under
>> our skin.
>>
Age: around 1700 fortnights...
First glimpse of the deamon occurred relatively late in life (as
measured by this crowd) when working on an Army missile project in '65
which was the first to use PERT. Shoved in cards and got back reams of
paper. The following year learned patch-panel programming on a punch
card system in the jungle.
The real bug was caught in grad school when our department got a PDP-8.
Spent one night with the beast and taught myself FOCAL. Shortly after,
our group got a Nova 1200 attached to a pulse-height analyzer which one
programmed by reading in tapes on a clunk-clunk and punching out
results (editor in -> program out, compiler in-> program in-> assembly
out, assembler in -> assembly code in-> object out, object in-> run
program -- one did not make a mistake). Language was the Algol (with
which DG wrote RTOS and RDOS).
And then along came a PDP-9 with 3 DEC tapes and 8 kwords of memory and
my invention of the operating system - that is until I found out that
the box came with one. Wrote my first GUI program in FORTRAN 4 on that
box - a background fitting affair that used a light pen on the
displayed data (can you say Chain...?). Read in the data from the Nova
and printed a graph of the result. Beat feeding cards to the CDC6400
and waiting a day to get back results.
Went on to gin up a data collection system on a Modcomp which we took
on tour around the US collecting data from a U2 flying a laser.
Subsequent work on a disertation used the system to feed data to a
DEC10 which front-ended a Cyber on which I churned through many CPU
hours (and $) crunching the data.
Escaped from academia and started a company in which we developed a
automation controller using the National 32016 using a VAX730 as the
development tool. That VAX ran 7 years with a down time of less than a
week... Brought the beast home when the company folded, but adopted it
out to a list member when I realized that I could only run it on winter
nights with the doors open.
My first personal computer was a LISA. Real multi-tasking with a real
GUI - (Oh Steve why did you stray from the true path....).
Current project is designing passive filters using a genetic algorithm
(gasp!!) - the fitness function is fuzzy :-P
My current collection consists of a smattering of Macs of various
vintage, a VAX3540 (used to be two 3520s), Sun 1000E, and an Alfa
server which isn't up and running yet.
Hey, the game is still fun and I'm not about to quit.
CRC
Free to good home:
HP MDP module, P/N 5062-3054 - Can't test it since I don't have a 9000/K type
Dell Pentium cache module (big DIMM type card)
Also, I have a friend who has a HP 9000 Series 800 H50 server box (it's
been unracked, but fits nicely under the desk (he gave me the one from another
rack- runs HP/UX 11i just fine)
Somewhere between 512 and 768 MB RAM, single 96 MHz processor, several HP-PB
cards
it's sitting in my garage, and he's given me permission to see if anyone
wants it. He does audio recording, so if anyone has something to trade for it in
that field that would be good, or we could do a 3-way trade (I'm interested in
classic computers, I can get him what he needs, we're all happy...)
Heavy beast (~70 lbs) so pickup would be easier than shipping, but shipping
could be arranged. If no-one wants to trade, I'd try to talk him into giving it
away. I'd rather it get used than sit in a garage.
Reply off-list, etc.
The good news:
I found my Tandy 200 and repaired it. (All it needed was a new internal
NiCd battery, but by the time I found the battery, my wife lost the
computer! :-O ) Upgraded it to 72K RAM as well, so I'm really stylin' --
ready to rock with it.
It's 20 years old this month!
More good news: I found my 200 packed under my STacy 2, which I need to
repair. It's got a boatload of dodgy solder joints in it... and now that I
finally have a very good soldering station, I can work on repairing that as
well!
I can repair it... but sadly, I cannot *reassemble* it as the baggie with
all the screws for it (mostly case screws, but some board screws as well)
was *not* packed with it; and so their location is still unknown.
Anyone know the size/thread pitch of the screws in a STacy?
Thankz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:29:24AM -0800, O. Sharp wrote:
> ...What do you suppose demand for our older machines will be like
> after we're gone? I can't help but think a lot of ours are being
> preserved because they're nostalgic to us, "the machines we grew up
> on"; and a generation from now, the interest is going to be on
> machines _that_ generation grew up on.
Surely the machines _that_ generation all grew up on are going to be
identical wintel boxen and the like?
cheers
w
On 26 Feb 2005, at 09:37, Nico de Jong wrote:
> It could be interesting to know the age"spread" of thist list
> contributors,
Well, FWIW:
About to hit the big 6 0 (hi Nico!)
Started in '62 sorting & collating cards in an IBM unit
record service bureau. Programmed my share of plugboards,
claim to fame was programming a 402 to multiply (Can't be
done? HA!). Moved up to running the Statistical department
(What percentage prefer Colgate to Pepsodent) on an IBM 101
and was finally involved in moving operations to the first
Burroughs computer installed in Canada AFAIK (a B200).
Dropped out for 10 years or so to run a motorcycle shop,
got back in as a contract programmer for Burroughs.
In '82 took on support for a professional investment
management package running on Cromemco systems; still
supporting one, albeit on PC's these days (just fired one
up on a Cromemco; forgot just how slow they were...)
Designed, sold & supported a factory data collection system
based on AIM65s and a Cromemco (later moved to PCs).
Consultant on several TV series about personal computers
in mid-70s; still have copies somewhere.
Personal computers: one of the first PET2001s, later
moved up to an 8032 (designed & sold custom accounting
packages for 8032). VIC20 & 64 of course (wrote some
educational C64 stuff for a local school board). A few
TRS-80s, an original IBM PC, XT & numerous clones since.
And Cromemcos of course.
Trying to clear out basement & apartment filled with
40 years worth of accumulating junk before my
executors have to deal with it...
mike
Age is 43, started trying to build 6502 machines after being exposed
to a KIM-1 in college. Then tried to build 1802 machines. Actually
got one to sort of work! Then I talked my dad into a TI-99/4A for
"writing school reports" (which it did, plus a whole lot more) and
have stuck to it. Now have several full-up 4A rigs plus a Geneve.
Also played with Atari STs and Falcons, and dabbled with an 800
briefly. Now (in addition to the 4As) have several 386es and
486es running a variety of FreeDOS and linux, and a Slackware
main system next to the Geneve and the 4Mb 520STfm.
I learned programming in FORTRAN using punch-cards on an IBM
mainframe at school, where I met a fellow who had built an
8080 machine in a file cabinet in his dorm room, and programmed
it using punch-cards from the Computer Center. I have played
with several VAXes over the years at work, including an
intimate experience with VMS 4 on a MicroVAX II that was
running the TI cross assembler for our TOW missile launcher
software development (based on the SBP9989, a close relative to
the 4A's TMS9900 and Geneve's TMS9995). Played peripherally
with a TI 990 mainframe and programmed a real-time hardware-in-
the-loop simulation on a 68000 ExorMACS.
All in all, it's been a blast, and I wouldn't change a thing!
