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On 5/22/07, Gooijen, Henk <henk.gooijen at oce.com> wrote:
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Sent: maandag 21 mei 2007 20:08
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Well,now I've gone and done it... Dragged home
more big(ish) iron...
On 5/21/07, Gooijen, Henk <henk.gooijen at oce.com> wrote:
> >
Oh, yeah... lots of EMPIRE. Had to keep EMPIRE on it for the
> > boss ;-)
Cool! Sounds like fun ... will start a search to find EMPIRE.
(googled for 'empire.exe')
http://www.decus.org/libcatalog/description_html/v00012.html
(but you'll need to twiddle the RMS attributes into 512-byte
fixed so VMS will treat it like an executable).
Thanks for the link Ethan.
I opened that link and succesfully downloaded the "DOC" page.
However, the FTP link returns an error, at work (most likely because
of the firewall), but also at home. I have tried to open the "FTP"
while the firewall (at home) was turned off, but still no result.
Can somebody check that the link is OK? And if it is dead, does
somebody have EMPIRE.EXE and can zip it and email it to me?
Yes... you do have to fiddle backplane jumpers.
There are no
11/750 MASSBUS slot grant cards AFAIK.
Yup, the MASSBUS interface for the VAX-11/750 is just one big
board. The RH11 and the RH70 are several boards (quad and hex)
and both have M590? dual-width cable receiver/transmitter boards.
The backplane jumpers is the tricky part (i.e. what I do not know
yet, but seem to remember that I have read about it some time ago).
I stripped down a dead RM80 nearly 15 years ago.
I did keep the
pedestals for the parts-RM03 we also stripped down to keep
our hot-spare RM03s going.
If my RM80 turns out to be dead, I am keeping it too. I will
probably "hide" an RA70 or other smallish SDI disk inside the dead
RM80, and use the low rack section for storage (BA11 expansion box,
boards, just documentation or an RL02). We'll see, 'next year' :-)
My PDP-8/e is presently resting where an RM03
formerly sat,
with an RK05 in the bottom.
Nice. That makes a very cute small PDP-8/e system!
You even jhave room for a second RK05! I assume that the terminal
is on top of the 8/e :-) Or do you have a TeleType next to it?
I wish I'd been able to keep the RM03s when
the company folded,
but 4 van loads was all I could manage. We left behind a
TU78 (mostly working, but a bit dodgy), two RK07s, two RM03s,
a VAX 8530, lots of RK07 disk packs, and dozens of VT100 and
clone terminals. I did keep a bunch of the terminals, and I
was thinking of polishing a few up to bring to VCFmw if
anyone wants a CiTOH 101 or 101e - they are nice clones,
either VT100-style with a built-in clock on the setup screen
(set with command codes in my
LOGIN.COM), or more of a Wyse
50-shape capable of supporting two host connections (not dual
session - there's no retention of screen contents). When I
worked there, I typically had one 101 and one 101e on my
desk, for 3 simultaneous logins across two or three machines
_before_ I flipped the knob on my terminal selector
;-)
I still keep one CiTOH (101?) in the attic, but have no use
for it. I just cannot simply throw it away. If I had been there
when the company folded, I would probably have taken an RK07 or
RM03. I would have been thinking that terminals are easier to
get later ...
But *four* van loads! My wife would kill^H^H^H^H call me insane.
I am still hoping to get a few RK07 packs. The ones Edward and
I bought 2 years ago have so many bad sectors that XXDP (first
test for RK07) already gives up during the INIT after a while :-(
In many ways, those were the days - I still do
lots and lots
of shell/command-line programming, just as I did then. Now,
though, I have lots more than three active sessions going.
-ethan
Yes, I agree :-) That is why we're on ClassicCmp :-)
- Henk.
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