A Hobbyist DECnet Network - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Dec 2005

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Subject: RE: A Hobbyist DECnet Network
   From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
   Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:01:55 -0800
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"	<cctalk at
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At 7:49 AM -0500 12/9/05, Allison wrote:
  My first
uVAX was a VAXstation II/RC in a BA23, I've still got it,
though the monitor needs repaired.  My second was a MicroVAX II in a
BA123, and was the first VAX I got running, it's now my PDP-11/73.
I've never seen a MicroVAX II boot slow enough to make dinner :^)

		Zane 
I always used VT100/125 or VT340 as they are smaller than the huge 19"
DECwindows tube.

Allison 
Actually for the most part I've always used a VT220, VT320, or now 
VT420's.  I don't think I ever managed to get the VAXstation II/RC 
booted when the monitor was working, and once I actually wanted to, I 
discovered the monitor wasn't working.  For the past several years 
it's been sitting in a storage unit under a DECwriter II terminal.  I 
ended up with the MicroVAX II before I could get ahold of a 
replacement disk and copy of the OS for the II/RC. 
I have a choice of terminals to use and a tube or two.  VT100, Vt125,
H19, VT320, VT340 and a VT1200. If all else failes PC running PROCOM.
I also have a VR160 and 190.

...
 In the past, I have used 17" to 21" monitors
on my Alpha's running 
VMS, and come to think of it I briefly had my VS4000VLC hooked up to 
the 17".  Still for the last 5+ years all I've normally used is a 
VT420 as the system console and simply used telnet or ssh to connect 
to a shell session.  Every few months I pull up a DECwindows session 
on my Mac.

		Zane 
The only thing I havent tried is an Xwindows session on a PC.  I do have 
Pathworks and the LAT interface is ok too.

Generally I don't need to connect physically with the VAXen as they are 
small require minimal attention and live happily while tucked in a corner.
Where the PCs need attention, the reset swich must be accessable and they
must have a local console to be remotely useful as anything but a server
and even then a tube is needed for diagnostic work.  ;)

Allison