test-drb March 2020

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by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

Haven't given up on DIBOL. May try installing the RT-11 version and see if it runs. But now another language of interest has reared its ugly head. :-) Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? Manual claims it runs on all of the PDP-11 OSes and it is another language from my past that I haven't touched (other than to read some programs out of curiosity) in more than two decades. I have the source to something called APL-11 for Unix but it is not the same thing. Actually, not even close. :-) Would love to see a few pointers. Oh, and in case anyone is curious about my endeavors.... The SIMH system I am using now is based on the 11/70 and was built with only 2M of memory. Why you would do that under SIMH where there is really no memory constraint at all, I can not fathom. I used to have a bunch of 11/44's and that has been my favorite since my original 11/24 system died long, long ago./ I am going to configure a SIMH System using the 11/44 as my model and then reinstall everything in order to have a really good system for playing with this stuff. Sure wish there was a way to find some of the third party stuff from the sourcebooks. A lot of nice software that should have been saved for historical reasons, if nothing else, has been lost. bill

3 years, 5 months

LegacyOS.org

by peters-cctech＠techwiz.ca

I just stumbled over https://legacyos.org/ and checking here for what you say about it only to find out that it seems like you missed it. Have you all missed it or is it just not interesting ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Techwiz, Peter Sjoberg GPG key (42DDDDDD) on keyserver & homepage Key fingerprint = EB81 3135 1636 576A DA83 826B 2455 0E88 42DD DDDD Homepage: http://www.techwiz.ca/~peters Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/henahadu/ Enigma: http://meinEnigma.com

3 years, 5 months

Split Ceramic Disk Capacitor

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

Since I am forced to stay at home more than I would like I though I would check some more PSUs. One I wanted to check was the H7109-C from one of my VAXstation 4000 VLC machines. I found a leaked capacitor and some other high ESR ones, so I will replace those. However, I also noticed a ceramic disk capacitor that appears to be split all around the edge. Is that a known failure mode? Regards Rob

3 years, 5 months

help needed: Document scan of ISS Sperry Univac Driver Exerciser avalaible for bitsavers upload

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Hello list, I have a scan of a manual with schematics for a ?ISS Sperry Univac Driver Exerciser for 7330 and 843x type of disk drives that was kindly scanned and provided to me by Mark from the Computer History Archivies Project, since he and myself happen to come accross such exercisers. I contacted two times Al via email for access credentials to upload the document as I did in the past years for numerous scans, but I never got an answer. He is probably very busy during the last months. In case anybody has access for uploading documents on this list, can you contact me so that we can make this document available to everybody? Best regards, Pierre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.digitalheritage.de

3 years, 5 months

DIBOL and RPG for RSTS

by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

Does anyone have a .tap image of a DIBOL install tape for RSTS? And while I am at it, was there ever RPG for RSTS? I am so bored I have decided to really load up a SIMH system and just live in the past for a while. I have Fortran-IV, Fortran-77, COBOL-81 and C installed now as well as BASIC and MACRO. But I haven't had the chance to do any DIBOL or RPG for quite some time and would love to try them again. bill

3 years, 5 months

Unable to download Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk

by dave.dunfield＠gmail.com

>Patrick Finnegan pat at vax11.net Tue Mar 24 18:14:05 CDT 2020 > >It looks like the magic that updates the 5-digit number in the URL doesn't >work after the classiccmp.org recovery. Try: >http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/imd118.zip > >The rest of the things should be in the same directory. >>On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:47 PM Christian Groessler >> Hi, >> >> the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for >> "ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work. Apparently most (or all) links on this >> page don't work. The "magic" is me, it has nothing to do with the classiccmo recovery. The links are something I update manually from time to time, and I've recently updated some pages to correct links to my now expired commercial site, and failed to amend these with the current transient page. Should be fixed now - may have to refresh your browser if It cached the bad links. Dave

3 years, 5 months

Fonts for Dataproducts printers?

by rdbrown0au＠gmail.com

In the "Dataproducts (300/600 LPM) Line Printers Maintenance Guide" (1984) at (23Mb) https://www.wang2200.org/docs/fiche/742-0432.MNL.2273LinePrinterMaintenance… Table 1-2. 300 LPM Character Band & PROM Set Kits p. 1-10 (p. 30-31 in PDF) & Table 1-3 600 LPM .... p1-12 (p. 32-33 in PDF) List "Country/Language","Character Band Number","PROM Number"."Number of Printable Characters","Description","Font Style","Spacing" Band???????????????? Desc????????????????? Font Style 250035-019 64 Utility?? ? ? ? ?? ???? DPC-C 250042-022 96 Upper/Lower???? DPC-B/C 250045-022 96 Upper/Lower???? DPC-C 250088-039 96 ASCII/Modified? DPC-B "Number of Print..." is 64 or 96 ... except for an Arabic one "Spacing in characters per inch" is always 10, except for 4, 15 pitches "Font Style" is either DPC-B, DPC-B/C, DPC-C, DPC-15, DPC-D for Thai, Arabic Are there fonts available for the common Font Styles (DPC-B. DPC-B/C, DPC-C)? The fonts for the Dataproducts (64-char) drum printers may be in that set. It's possible that the Dataproducts laser printers may have provided the fonts, but googling hasn't shown anything, the Dataproducts website is on archive.org, and my searches showed that the Computer History Museum has a printer and a few bands. The HP2614A Drum printer we had in 1980 was probably one of those and we had band printers later. I should look through my printouts ... There's a font for the IBM 1403 http://ibm-1401.info/IBM140310Pitch-Regular.otf "Chainprinter Regular Font" at http://legionfonts.com/fonts/chainprinter-regular may be related to the IBM 1403 one too. This assumes that fonts might be useful for OCR at some stage, or for checking retyped data, or for fun on SIMH.

3 years, 6 months

Vaxstation 400/90 power supply

by emu＠e-bbes.com

Hi all, I have 4000/90 which behaves funny. It only starts, after switching on twice. The first time, all LEDs stay on, flipping the switch off/on, it boots happily. Any insight? THANKS!

3 years, 6 months

Unable to download Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk

by chris＠groessler.org

Hi, the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for "ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work. Apparently most (or all) links on this page don't work. Where can I get the latest ImageDisk version? regards, chris

3 years, 6 months

HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

by johnhreinhardt＠thereinhardts.org

For those interested, HPE has finally, formally announced the end of their participation in the OpenVMS Hobbyist Program.? A number of people have received the below message from HPE, probably everyone they have on record as having current Hobbyist licenses. If you have any current or future ( at least before the end of 2021 ) interest in Hobbyist licenses for any version of OpenVMS from 5.0 through 8.4 for VAX ( only up to 7.3) or Alpha and Itanium, then register now.? HPE is looking to find out how many are interested in Hobbyist offerings and even though the new license will be good through 2021, I don't expect them to be generating them past the end of 2020 and maybe sooner. Register for Hobbyist PAKs at one of the following (I suggest the HPE address first): https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548 http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php Note the underscore between hobbyist and registration in hobbyist_registration. One Hobbyist user reports this: I?ve just received an update from the OpenVMS Customer lab: Here?s the message from the OpenVMS team.? The idea was that hobbyists would visit the site and renew their licenses, and in response, we would provide the final set of licenses, explaining the scenario: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ? As we approach the end of the HPE OpenVMS V8.4 standard support period, HPE ??plans to conclude the HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program. ? The HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses we are issuing in 2020 will be the last set. ??Subsequently, HPE will not issue new HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses. Attached ??is the final set of the HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses. These final licenses ??are valid through December 31st, 2021. We hope that this additional validity ??period will enable users to plan for the future. ? Users who wish to avail of HPE OpenVMS long term licenses are encouraged to ??purchase permanent licenses at standard prices. You may contact [Fellman, Jon] ??<jon.fellman at hpe.com <mailto:jon.fellman at hpe.com>> for the same. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Cheers, Wiz!! John H. Reinhardt *From:*owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] *On Behalf Of *David Moylan *Sent:* Saturday, 7 March 2020 4:14 PM *To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE *Subject:* [HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing Hi all, Just received the e-mail below. I?ve hunted around all the various Hobbyist locations and licensing pages and can?t find any additional information. I?ve already replied back to ask what the impact of Hobbyist renewal licensing will be. I have no further information at this stage. Have others received this as well? Does anyone have any further knowledge on this? I can see a few people have forwarded/posted the same message on comp.os.vms. Cheers, Wiz!! *From:*OpenVMS Customer Lab [mailto:openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com] *Sent:* Saturday, 7 March 2020 3:13 PM *Cc:* OpenVMS Customer Lab *Subject:* OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification Dear HPE OpenVMS hobbyist, This is to inform you that HPE is concluding the HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program in alignment with the HPE OpenVMS support roadmap. If you wish to understand more details, please reach out to us at the earliest through the usual license renewal webpage. Thank you. HPE OpenVMS team

3 years, 6 months

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