11 Aug
2010
11 Aug
'10
1:17 p.m.
On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
And while we are at it: quite a few _cellphones_ these
days have more
computing power than that. For a cellphone ...
In that vein, I have spent some time over the past week or so setting up
my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a VAX by running
SIMH.
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/compiling-simh-emulators-for-
android.html
And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity!
Pat
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11 Aug
11 Aug
1:29 p.m.
On 8/11/10 1:17 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Most excellent!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
And while we
are at it: quite a few _cellphones_ these days have more
computing power than that. For a cellphone ...
In that vein, I have spent some time over the past week or so setting up
my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a VAX by running
SIMH.
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/compiling-simh-emulators-for-
android.html
And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity! 
1:29 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
In that vein, I have spent some time over the past
week or so setting up
my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a VAX by running
SIMH.
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/compiling-simh-emulators-for-
android.html
And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity!
So how does it compare speed wise to a MicroVAX II?
Zane
1:43 p.m.
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Zane H. Healy wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I haven't yet booted VMS on it, mostly because I seem to have misplaced
the root password for the VMS image I have on the phone. Once I fix
that little problem, I'll see what running vups.com tells me.
One thing is for sure... the real phone is a whole lot faster than
running simh under the android emulator. The speed of that was
definitely less than 1 emulated VUP.
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
In that vein, I have spent some time over the
past week or so
setting up my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a
VAX by running SIMH.
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/compiling-simh-emulators-for
- android.html
And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity!
So how does it compare speed wise to a MicroVAX II? 
1:41 p.m.
On 8/11/10, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
In that vein, I have spent some time over the past
week or so setting up
my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a VAX by running
SIMH... And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity!
Nice. It's handy that you have the terminal servers on hand - I'd be
scrounging for a way to get the bits from the terminal to the phone
and vice versa.
Do you think it would work to get a bluetooth serial interface for the
VT125, or would there be no way to induce the phone to pair up to that
for a virtual 'comport'?
-ethan
1:48 p.m.
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 8/11/10, Patrick Finnegan <pat at
computer-refuge.org> wrote:
Sounds interesting. I've never played with BT stuff, but it's just a
Linux environment. With enough effort, you could probably get it to
work, but with Simh, it's easier to have something that just can telnet
to a particular TCP port on the phone.
Maybe I'll try to find some sort of BT serial dongle to try it out. :)
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
In that vein, I have spent some time over the
past week or so
setting up my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a
VAX by running SIMH... And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity!
Nice. It's handy that you have the terminal servers on hand - I'd be
scrounging for a way to get the bits from the terminal to the phone
and vice versa.
Do you think it would work to get a bluetooth serial interface for
the VT125, or would there be no way to induce the phone to pair up
to that for a virtual 'comport'? 
2:23 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:49 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: VAX on a cell phone
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
This is extremely cool. About a month ago, I bought an "aPad" - a 7"
tablet running Android. I can't wait to run this on my aPad! It has a *nix shell and
both soft keyboard and USB, which will either simplify or complicate the UI. :-)
Great job, Pat. -- Ian
On 8/11/10, Patrick Finnegan <pat at
computer-refuge.org> wrote:
Sounds interesting. I've never played with BT stuff, but it's just a
Linux environment. With enough effort, you could probably get it to
work, but with Simh, it's easier to have something that just can telnet
to a particular TCP port on the phone.
Maybe I'll try to find some sort of BT serial dongle to try it out. :)
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org In that vein, I have spent some time over the
past week or so
setting up my cell phone (an HTC Evo running Android) to emulate a
VAX by running SIMH... And then using a VT125 for its console:
http://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2010/08/htc-evo-and-vt125.html
Enjoy the insanity!
Nice. It's handy that you have the terminal servers on hand - I'd be
scrounging for a way to get the bits from the terminal to the phone
and vice versa.
Do you think it would work to get a bluetooth serial interface for
the VT125, or would there be no way to induce the phone to pair up
to that for a virtual 'comport'?
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