26 Oct
2001
26 Oct
'01
6:47 a.m.
Now all you need do is go to http://www.montagar.com, join the DECUS
user's group and get your OpenVMS cdrom. It contains things like TCP/IP
and quite a few 'layered' products such as Basic, Fortran, Cobol,
etcetera.
Regards,
Jeff
In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107242214280.11511-100000(a)smarty.smart.net>et>, on
07/24/01
at 10:45 PM, "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net> said:
This afternoon, I ordered, and then picked up, a cable
with MMJ
connectors on it from Control Cable (they're in Woodlawn, MD) - a nice
place to deal with; they specialize in cabling and related products, and
what they sell appears to be of very good quality. The cost of the
assembled cable was only a few cents different from their cost for a
cable and two MMJ connectors, and was under US$5; of course, I had to pay
US$5 extra since the order was under US$50, but that was no worse than
shipping would have been if I'd ordered them from elsewhere.
After connecting the VT320 to the VAX, I reset the
system password.
Fortunately, this VAX has the "real VMS" (TM) for VAXen on it: VAX/VMS,
and it's a reasonably recent version: 5.5, which was close to the lastest
version of VMS back when I last worked with a VAX for an employer, back
around 1992. :-)
This far, I haven't noticed anything truly
remarkable with regards to
software, although at first glance, it looks like nothing is missing.
Fortunately, someone installed kermit, so that will make things, such as
installing TCP/IP, easier. :-)
There appears to be a fair amount of audio software,
which I think may
all be for use with that DECVoice system; text to voice software, for
example. Since I don't have a T1 telephone connection, alas, it appears
that I'm not going to be able to use this DECVoice hardware, and the
audio software on this machine.
Also, there's a mention of SQL in one of the text
files that I looked
through, although I didn't notice any database software installed; of
course, I don't know the names of databases using SQL for VAXen.
DECnet is installed and apparently configured, so I
guess this means that
I can use my DEC terminal server with this machine... do I need to do
anything other than connect the terminal server to the VAX and then use
it? I know nothing about DECnet.
Of course, there's still the little matter of no
tape drive being
installed in this system, which is not a good thing. I have a TK70 and a
TK50, along with a TKQ70 board.
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