15 Sep
1999
15 Sep
'99
4:08 p.m.
If you would include minor details like what the M# of the graphics board I may
be able to help. There were a few different ones used over the years. Complete
configurations can even be more helpful.
It may be a day or 2 before I can respond depending on what Floyd decides to do
to me. I have been getting the heavy rains most of the day and now the wind has
kicked up. Thank heavens for UPS's for the power flickers.
Dan
I have a VaxStation 3520 in the garage that seems to
boot. I gather it's
a dual-processor model and it has SCSI, RGB, AUI, and TK70, all intact and
able to boot. Problem is I have no KB, no mouse, and no head for it. (I
had hooked it up to a monitor that had the right cables but the wrong sync
stuff, so I had like four shaking images of the boot stuff.) Anyone know
of a good cheap place to gather the junque I need to get this thing
running right (and part numbers, etc)? It seems like a really nice box
except for the BI bus (it has Qbus too!), but I guess that's fine if I
stick with OpenVMS. ((Which version?))
TIA
jake
15 Sep
15 Sep
4:24 p.m.
New subject: Keeping pdp11s softwarily viable?
Can't do it all myself, but I'd like to see a port of a minimal
version of lynx to 2.11BSD unix. Anyone care to comment on how
(im)possible this is and what it would require? [[I'm tired of telnetting
to my FreeBSD box everytime I want to mess with the web.]] While we're on
it, what about emacs? That shouldn't be so bad since there's already a
uEMACS for RSX.
jake
4:34 p.m.
New subject: Keeping pdp11s softwarily viable?
Can't do it all myself, but I'd like to see a
port of a minimal
version of lynx to 2.11BSD unix. Anyone care to comment on how
(im)possible this is and what it would require? [[I'm tired of telnetting
to my FreeBSD box everytime I want to mess with the web.]] While we're on
it, what about emacs? That shouldn't be so bad since there's already a
uEMACS for RSX.
jake
On a related note, does anyone have a browser for RT-11? I've got Telnet
and FTP running, but would love to add web access :^)
Guess I really need to take a look at the source for lynx.
As for EMACS, you want to run "Eight Megs And Constanstantly Swapping" on a
PDP-11? Even a vi hater like myself would probably stick to vi on 2.11BSD!
Zane
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7:44 p.m.
If you would include minor details like what the M# of
the graphics board
I may be able to help. There were a few different ones used over the years.
Not on the 3520 and 3540, there weren't. You had a choice of how many
bit planes, but the only graphics boards that would work were the ones
that came with it.
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