Just picked up a very complete MicroVAX 3800. I have very little experience
with VMS as this is my first VAX. Mostly a PDP-8 guy, I suppose.
I'm running through the change password procedure, which I had seen
mentioned previously on this list:
SET VAXCLUSTER 0
SET /STARTUP OPA0:
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
SET NOON
SPAWN /NOWAIT SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM
SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM
RUN AUTHORIZE
At this point, I get this:
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image SECURESHRP
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file
R7CY2A$DIA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]SECURESHRP.EXE;2
-SYSTEM-F-PROTINSTALL, protected images must be installed
$
What would I need to do to correct it to login?
The eventual goal is to get this online, which should be feasible. I have
an AUI-to-10Base-T adapter (several, actually). I think that'll be a little
while away for now, though.
Here are some pictures: http://imgur.com/a/WYGra
Thanks,
Kyle
I was going to play dumb and hope this didn't go nuts in price but it
did. Anyone here bidding?
I'd be interested in one of these just to play with, but will probably
try to use the emulator if I ever get the chance to get into it more.
VINTAGE-COMPUTER-SYMBOLICS-LISP-MACHINE-MACIVORY-III-APPLE-MACINTOSH-QUADRA-950
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221855233003
> On 8/22/2015 4:11 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> In my mostly misspent youth, I once had the opportunity to visit a
> facility where a now obscure supercomputer was developed. The product
> manager was showing me around. ....
Denelcor perhaps?
I know of two publications in 1975 that used the term "second system effect" or "second-systemitis".
1: Brooks' _Mythical Man-Month_.
2: Bell's and Streeker's "What We Learned From the PDP-11".
Does anyone know of earlier usage of this term or earlier names for this effect, possibly outside of computers?
Tim.
I have nothing to do with this...I just noticed it on alt.sys.pdp11 and
figured that I'd pass it along.
TTFN - Guy
Hi all,
I have a PDP-11/55 for sale (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Bids open
until 2015 09 15, buyer to arrange shipping, I will have it wrapped
and ready to go.
Please visit:
www.krten.com/~rk/museum/index.html
For pictures, detailed inventory and contact info. Sealed bids via
eamil please. Winner will be notified 2015 09 16, machine will be
ready to ship same day. Must be shipped / picked up no later than
2015 10 09.
Sold AS-IS / where is, untested, unpowered since received.
Comes with H960 rack and 2 side panels.
Cheers,
-RK
--
Robert Krten
Visit me at http://www.ironkrten.com
Wonder if anyone here has ever dealt with John Culver, who works from the
address john at cpushack.com? He operates a site at the same URL.
Among other things, he's a buyer, seller & collector of vintage CPUs, and
associated chips. I've done several deals with him, with goods & money
moving both directions at various times, and have nothing but good memories.
In my experience, the guy is a real mensch, so I wanted to give him a plug
here - May I suggest that anyone who might be looking for a specific
vintage chip give him a holler and see what he can turn up?
IMO, you could do a whole heck of a lot worse!
-Bill
Hi all. Update have an 11/10, that was recently powered on again for the
first time in I don't know when. After some fiddling with the RX01
disks, we put an RL11 and an RL02 on it. Lots of space, I know. :-)
Also, we have RT-11 running on it. And for fun, we wanted to run the
original Tetris. But here is the catch - Tetris is using some
instructions that the 11/10 don't have. (I would guess EIS stuff.)
Do anyone know if there is some software emulation of these instructions
that can be added to RT-11 in order to be able to run such programs?
RT-11 V5.5 by the way, if anyone wants to know. And no, I am not sitting
by the machine, or trying to play with it personally. It's other people
at Update. But an 11/10 is cute.
And we did boot the RL02 on Magica (11/70) to check that there is
nothing wrong with the binary, and it runs fine on that large machine.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
I just noticed the September 2015 issue of Nuts & Volts has, right on
its cover, a project to outfit a Commodore PET with color (digital
RGBI) output. It requires a PET with the Universal Dynamic PET
motherboard, the one that could be switched between 40 and 80 columns
via jumpers; the actual output is only in 40 because of memory
limitations. The specific project in the magazine allows four 16
foreground and 16 background colors per pixel, but it says the author
has also made it output 8-bit analog RGB foregrounds with one fixed
background color.
--
Eric Christopherson
Hey all-
I've always wondered about this.
Their website hasn't seen a proper update in years, and it looks like they
have a lot of choice hardware donated to them that they may not be
maintaining... Is it open to the public?
Are people actively volunteering there to make sure this stuff is shown
some love and not falling into disrepair? Keeping leaky batteries,
capacitors, rust at bay, and doing repairs? Imaging disks?
They have some very worthwhile examples of machines but I haven't seen much
>from them as an organization in years!
I'm sure lots of people would be willing to help if they are
under-resourced.
Thanks,
- Ian
--
Ian Finder
ian.finder at gmail.com
Looks like the big "C" to me!
I have no idea about the Davidoff guy...
But would you REALLY even want to spend the amount
of money to argue this with the lawyers of Gates and Allen?
Ed#
, and
00380
00400 --------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- -----
00420 COPYRIGHT 1975 BY BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN
00440 --------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- -----
In a message dated 8/25/2015 11:35:05 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org writes:
From: Paul Koning
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 7:48 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Larry Niven's Altair
> On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
>> On 8/20/2015 3:32 AM, Randy Dawson wrote:
>>> I assume all the 8K, 4K BASICs are in public domain by now. The
>>> demo for the kids will be the 15 minutes of paper tape, followed by
>>> READY.
>> Bad assumption. Things that were actually registered even if there
>> was no notice, or published with a copyright notice would still be
>> protected under U.S. copyright.
> Depending on when. If it was published without notice, the key
> question is whether publication occurred before Jan 1, 1978, or after.
> After, notice does not matter; before, lack of notice means no
> copyright.
Sorry to take so long to chime in on all the rampant speculation, but
I've had real work to attend to.
The following is excerpted from the main source file of BASIC for the
Altair, by Gates, Allen, and Davidoff. I have no further comment.
00100 MCSSIM(START)
00120
00140 TITLE BASIC MCS 8080 GATES/ALLEN/DAVIDOFF
00160 IFNDEF LENGTH,<PRINTX !!! MUST HAVE COM !!
00180 END>
00200 IF1,<
00220 IFE LENGTH,<PRINTX /SMALL/ >
00240 IFE LENGTH-1,<PRINTX /MEDIUM/ >
00260 IFE LENGTH-2,<PRINTX /BIG/ >
00280 IFE STRING,<PRINTX /NO $$/ >
00300 IFN STRING,<PRINTX /$$ $$/ >
00320 >
00340 SUBTTL VERSION 1.1 -- MORE FEATURES TO COME
00360 COMMENT *
00380
00400 --------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- -----
00420 COPYRIGHT 1975 BY BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN
00440 --------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- -----
00460
00480
00500 WRITTEN ORIGINALLY ON THE PDP-10 AT HARVARD FROM
00520 FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 27
00540
00560 PAUL ALLEN WROTE THE NON-RUNTIME STUFF.
00580 BILL GATES WROTE THE RUNTIME STUFF.
00600 MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE.
00620
00640 THINGS TO DO:
00641 SYNTAX PROBLEMS (OR)
00642 NICE ERRORS
00643 ALLOW ^W AND ^C IN LIST COMMAND
00646 TAPE I/O
00648 BUFFER I/O
00650 USR ??
00652 ELSE
00660 USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS(MULTI-ARG,MULTI-LINE,STRINGS)
00680 MAKE STACK BOUNDARY STUFF EXACT
00700 (FOUT 24 FIN 14)
00720 PUNCH,DELETE,,,
00740 INLINE CONSTANT CONVERSION--MAKE IT WORK
00750 SIMPLE STRINGS
00760 *
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
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