14 Jun
2009
14 Jun
'09
4:48 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
The version there is VERY old. Tom decided to not make
later versions
available. Sadly, this has resulted in many forks of the last available
source base. I wonder if the Cray/Cyber group would have any luck with
BT granting use of cyber 70 class software for non-commercial use. Right
now there is no generally available software other than Chippewa to run
on it.
I wonder what happened that made him decide that? Maybe the above
mentioned lack of software to run on it had something to do with the
decision.
With VMS support going offshore, I wonder how long
that will last.
Thank Bob Supnik for the DEC hobby licensing.
HP has been very supportive of CHM's efforts to preserve their product's
software. There are several other agreements similar to the one we negotiated
for the HP211x/2100 software in the works.
Given that a core of old DECUS folks inside Connect seem to do all the
work involved with the VMS hobbyist license, I wonder if the
higher-ups at HP even know that it exists. The HP 21xx deal is news to
me, though. I guess it firmly puts HP into the "supportive" camp vis a
vis classic computing hobbyism and research, especially if they're
thinking of donating more stuff to the museum (which I really need to
visit one of these days, by the way)
Mike
14 Jun
14 Jun
5:33 p.m.
Michael Kerpan wrote:
The HP 21xx deal is news to
me, though. I guess it firmly puts HP into the "supportive" camp vis a
vis classic computing hobbyism and research, especially if they're
thinking of donating more stuff to the museum
I haven't said much about it recently since we have no infrastructure
to release anything yet. The tapes we received from them have been read,
and a first pass at determining exactly what we have was done, which some
verification. This was helped along by the person doing the work on adding
RTE support to SIMH.
We have the tapes and disks at CHM for what survived of Apollo when it was
sent to Colorado Springs. I spent a few weeks working on the manuals that
came in with it, and am putting together some machines to do recovery of
over 100 Apollo ESDI disks.
Also in the same shipment was everything they still had for the Pascal
workstation, along with two pallets of HPIB and SCSI disks for the 300
series.
We are hoping to get a non-commercial agreement for this software worked
out soon along with one for the Classic 3000, although they were unable
to find any software for it inside HP. I'm hoping people on the outside
will offer to have it archived once we get the agreement in place.
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