>Where to start? (I entered the label that the disk says it has on it (its
>printed on the CD as OPENVMSS070LP, but that is rejected as being incorrect)
If you think the label printed on the CD is wrong, you can do a
MOUNT/OVERRIDE=IDENTIFICATION to figure out what the real disk label is.
If you still get an error, show us exactly what command you tried and
exactly the error message you got back. Unlike many modern software
products, the error messages from VMS *are* actually helpful to figure
out what's going wrong!
Tim.
I know, I know. It must be written down somewhere, but the DOC is on a CD
and I don't know how to access it!
I have VMS 7.0 installed, and I installed DECWindows. I also told it to be
a cluster node and that caused some problems initially. On boot it
complained about INCLUDES. For the uninitiated the NO_SHARE option on the
hobbiest VMS license means you need one license per CPU, and for that to
work you have to type:
LICENSE MODIFY/INCLUDE=TNYVAX VAX-VMS
before it will work. (TNYVAX was my node name, yours will vary)
So its installed, but I would really like to install TCP/IP so that I can
open a DECWindow on my remote X server. I think it is on the VMS Layered
products disk but when I try to mount it it complains I've gor the wrong label.
Where to start? (I entered the label that the disk says it has on it (its
printed on the CD as OPENVMSS070LP, but that is rejected as being incorrect)
--Chuck
> I was wondering if anyone had an idea about an 11/23+ I picked up recently.
>It's a normal looking 11/23+, but the UART closest to the console connecters
>is replaced by a 40 pin socket. The socket has a ribbon cable attached which
>goes to a small board (2x3.5 inches) that contains a UART and a couple of
>other chips (notebly a dallas ds2010).
A DS2010 is a 1024*9 FIFO.
> Looking at the socket, it's not a
>rework, I believe the board came this way from DEC. The small board has a
>part number 010-01135-00 rev b etched on it.
I don't see that part number in my indices, but it certainly sounds like
it may be a DEC part number. With the FIFO and the UART, it obviously has
something to do with buffering either input or output through the serial
port. Interesting find! If you look on the board handles, are there any
suffixes on the M8189? (Something like "YA" or "YB"?)
--
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From: technoid(a)cheta.net <technoid(a)cheta.net>
>Excellent. What are the specs on the machine or do you know yet?
>
I thought I'd start posting some of my notes as I jump into this machine
that I'm already beginning to love dearly. This first post covers the
COSMAC's features, organization, archetecture and instruction format if
anyone is interested:
http://users.leading.net/~dogas/classiccmp/cosmac/note1.htm
More soon... Please let me know if I misrepresented anything.
Cheers
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
From: technoid(a)cheta.net <technoid(a)cheta.net>
>Excellent. What are the specs on the machine or do you know yet?
>
I thought I'd start posting some of my notes as I jump into this machine
that I'm already beginning to love dearly. This first post covers the
COSMAC's features, organization, archetecture and instruction format if
anyone is interested:
http://users.leading.net/~dogas/classiccmp/cosmac/note1.htm
More soon... Please let me know if I misrepresented anything.
Cheers
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
I was wondering if anyone had an idea about an 11/23+ I picked up recently.
It's a normal looking 11/23+, but the UART closest to the console connecters
is replaced by a 40 pin socket. The socket has a ribbon cable attached which
goes to a small board (2x3.5 inches) that contains a UART and a couple of
other chips (notebly a dallas ds2010). Looking at the socket, it's not a
rework, I believe the board came this way from DEC. The small board has a
part number 010-01135-00 rev b etched on it.
Thanks,
Bill King
Hi,
> I recently saw some top corner of a VAX 4000 in a documentation on TV
here,
> including some other VAX-related DEC-stuff standing around there. But on
the
> movies, it seems to be hard to spot a VAX.
Perhaps in the German movies, but you can see a room full of 11/725's and
11/750's
in a movie called "D.A.R.R.Y.L".
Andy
Hi,
I picked up a second FLuke 1722 today. This one does have the keyboard
(at last)! But I still haven't found the operating system software for it.
Can anyone help? It uses Fluke's F-DOS. I'd also like to find a manual
for it.
The 1722 is an instrument controller. It has a built in touch sensative
screen that measures about 5 x 7 inches. It also has one built in RS-232
port and one HP-IB port and it's controlled by a TMS9900 CPU.
Joe
>Ok, all this has me trying to upgrade to VMS 7.0 since a) I have the Media
>kit and b) I'd like to try clustering dissimilar machines. I found a CDROM
>drive that can boot the CD, and it boots into standlone backup. What are
>the two commands to prepare the local hard drive and then unpack on to it?
OK, here comes...
Assumptions, DKA700 is the cdrom, DKA200 is the target disk.
$ backup/image dka400:VMS070.b/save dka200:
when done copying you will be asked if the system is to continue type YES.
Then halt the machine.
To actually run the install...
>>>Boot DKA200
The rest will be obvious.
Allison
>Amongst the things which I saved from the skip I have 4 >IBM 8" floppies,
>the labels say:
>
>MAP ENTRY DISKETTE **M.T.=5412**
>P/N=4410338 E.C.=571989 DIAGN.DISK. 1
>--------------------------------------------------------
>CONTENTS, 0D0-FFB-FFF-FD6-143-FC0,DD6,D44,
> FC2,DD9,C17-FA0,FA6,FA7
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>STAND ALONE DISKETTE **M.T.=5412**
>P/N=4247991 E.C.=571931 DIAGN.DISK. 2
>--------------------------------------------------------
>CONTENTS, LDR-FC0,LD5-FA0,E0A
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>3340 MICRO DIAGNOSTIC DISKETTE **M.T.=5412**
>P/N=4247992 E.C.=571989 DIAGN.DISK. 3
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>CONTENTS, C16-FA1-FA2-FA3-FA4-FA5
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>3340 DIAGNOSTIC DISKETTE **M.T.=5412**
>P/N=4247993 E.C.=571931 DIAGN.DISK. 4
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>CONTENTS, C11,C12,C14,C15,C17-FA0,C18,C19,
> C1A,C1B,C1F
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>Can anyone tell me what these are and what they were for?
>
>I realise that they were for diagnostics of some sort >and assume that the
>**M.T.=5412** is probably a machine >type, but I am not familiar with IBM's
>designation >numbers.
>
>At the bottom of the label is what I assume is a date in >the format
>77/01/05 - if my assumption is correct then >these must be 30 years old.
>
>--
>Regards
>Pete
Someting else intresting about those disks: The "CONTENTS" section is
actually a *directory*! Many IBM minis & mainframes that used FDD's did not
have an FAT on the disk! The result: you had to provide the track & sector
location on every disk access! a similar scheme was used in the prototypical
(and unreleased) Commodore 900 workstation.
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Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
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