On Aug 8,
2019, at 4:29 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Aug 7, 2019, at 22:18, Adam Thornton wrote:
https://mvsevm.fsf.net
Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have no
passwords.
Please treat the dmr account respectfully.
I will get to account requests?eventually, probably. TImeliness is not guaranteed. All
systems are hosted on Raspberry Pis (the 36-bit ones on a Pi 3B+ and the 16-bit and 32-bit
ones on a Pi 2B+) on Debian Buster. Absolutely no guarantee of availability or usability
is made.
Thanks. I had a brief look around the 36-bit systems last night.
One of my tests for a Pi 3 B was to build and run the SIMH HP3000 on it. Being able to
do that means having git to get the SIMH source, gcc and gmake to build, (curl|wget) to
get the MPE V/R bits, unzip to extract. The prerequisites were what I wanted for other Pi
stuff and this was a good workflow to find out what was missing from the Jessie Lite image
(yes it was that long ago, in Stretch and Buster I think I have found all those packages
are already present).
One of the things I have found with the Pi is, the low end micro SD cards (P*tr**t and
K*ngst*n would match the ones that did this) are lossy storage. It?s not that they wear
out, it?s that they lose bits. Switching power supply to one sufficient for the Pi did
not solve this problem, they continued to lose bits.
-Frank McConnell
With my RPi2B, my wife tripped a breaker, and scrambled the card.
That was a Lexar SD card. Of course that was also one of the critical systems in my VMS
Cluster. I?ve moved to VM?s, on my VMware cluster, for all my OpenVMS systems. My one
Rpi3B runs Multics, the other TOPS-20. I?m thinking about rebuilding the RPi2B as a
PDP-11.
Zane