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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:35:18 +1100
From: Nigel Williams <nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com>
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Subject: Re: Computing from 1976
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 9:57 AM, william degnan via cctalk
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>> what magazine?
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7wAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82
note.
Popular Science Dec-1976
***
Thanks Nigel. I apologize to all for not putting this magazine name in
my original note.
I've been thinking this New Year's eve about the world of classic
computing: How far has personal computing actually advanced? Not
talking about computing on the Net or such. Just plain computing! Or
is there such a thing the last day of 2017?
Happy computing for 2018.
Murray :)
I've been experimenting with the SIMH VAX simulators a lot lately. The only way I know of to mount a tape, disk pack, CD-ROM, etc. after boot time is to halt the simulation with ^e to get to the SIMH command prompt, ATTACH the desired image, and then resume the simulation with CONTINUE.
Is there any way to attach/detach media images in SIMH without halting the simulation? I've tried putting the system console on a telnet port so it doesn't occupy SIMH's controlling terminal, and I found that it's still necessary to halt the simulation to get back to the SIMH command prompt.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
Are any of you aware of an MTS mailing list that lives outside of the
execrable Yahoo groups environment? And if not, is there any interest in
starting one?
Meanwhile, if there are any MTS hacks on the list, I have a question:
When running *SAV or *SVW, what are the labels the system is expecting for the
FSnnnn tapes? I tried the obvious - FS2001 for the FS2001 tape prompted
for - but no luck there. Then again, maybe I'm not labeling the tapes
properly.
This is under Hercules.
hetinit -d fs2001.aws FS2001 MTS
doesn't cut it. I also tried running *lbh against that tape (to give it the
same label), but no luck there, either.
The MTS operator's guide doesn't have anything to say about daily/weekly
backups, other than the cryptic notes on the *SAV and *SVW files, and I can't
find anything else as I dig through the rest of the online system docs.
$HELP ?
--lyndon
