Re: 8" Floppy Drives needed
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Mike Katz wrote: Please let me know the cost and I will be happy to paypal it to you. Okay, I will dig it up and find a box and get back to you on Monday. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: 8" Floppy Drives needed
I have, as far as I recall, a 8" single sided full height Shugart drive here that I swapped out of my Trash 80 Model II for a pair of half height DSDD drives many many years ago. I can send it to you for the cost of postage if it is of use to you. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: how to make use of daisy wheel printer
On Sat, 29 May 2021, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: Were there Unix versions of WS? Or any other solution with Unix? I prefer the ability to log in from remote. I think Gnu troff and/or ghostscript should have a suitable driver. Old drivers are rarely deleted even years after they fall out of popularity. I still have a Xerox 1750 daisy wheel printer in the attic that I brought home from work when the newly arrived Imagen laser printer and ditroff made the 1750 unfashionable. At work we used TROFF to drive the 1750 for letter quality output, the bulk of the printing was done with two Data Printer Corporations Chaintrain printers (for some reason I have the DPC maintenance manuals here at home) which were certainly not letter quality. After I brought the 1750 home I ran it with troff on my BSDi Unix box for a number of years and drove it with Wordstar 4.0 on my TRS-80 Model II CP/M. It was a good letter quality printer but I never tried any clever graphics or anything like that even though it was documented in the 1750 manual. The 1750 was retired after I broke a petal off my last surviving Courier 10 print wheel and could not find any replacements. I replaced the 1750 with a Deskjet 500 that I also fished out of the trash at work and ran for ten years without any major repairs but I had retired the TRS80 by the time I got the DeskJet 500 so I never tried to make it work with WordStar. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: DEC h8575-A Yours for Postage
The H8575s have found a new home. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
DEC h8575-A Yours for Postage
Ladies and Gentlemen, I was sifting through a huge box of industrial junk in my basement and found two NIB DEC H8575-A DB25 to MMJ adaptors in their original bags with a 1991 date code. The DB25 is female and the MMJ is, of course, a jack. Does anybody want them for postage from Athabasca, Alberta? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
VAXstation 3100
Adam, I have a VAXstation sitting about three metres from me. As is usually the case, "it worked when I turned it off 20 years ago" I don't remember how many years ago I turned it off. I think it is a model 30 but casually looking at the box does not show me what model it is. I pulled out the nicad battery pack many years ago and it is sitting by my left hand and it does not leak. I have the system box, the expansion box with its little SCSI disk drive, the RRD40 and its wierd disc caddies, and the VR--- monochrome monitor, and probably the keyboard and mouse and documentation if I look around for half an hour. I have no idea where you are but I can send it to you for the price of shipping which would be astronomical I expect. I hesitate to ship the monitor - that would be had work - but the other components can be managed. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
DEC Alphaserver 4100 CPU fans
So gentlemen, my Alphaserver 4100 shut itself down with a sad announcement about a dead CPU fan. I have a parts mule which has donated a CPU fan a couple years ago and I can take the second and last CPU fan from there but then I have no more fans. Can the CPU fan be obtained? Can they be rebuilt? The 4100 has a series of fans between the 3 power supply slots and the main backplane which I found could not be easily obtained so I tore them all apart and replaced the bearings with good results but I suspect that the lttle CPU fans will not respond so well to attempts at repair. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: For those interested, HPE has finally, formally announced the end of their participation in the OpenVMS Hobbyist Program. A number of people have received the below message from HPE, probably everyone they have on record as having current Hobbyist licenses. I humbly suggest that HPE might issue VAX hobbyist licenses that don't expire since they and VSI don't have a significant financial interest in it. Removing the expiration date does not remove any obligation from the licence holder and does not remove HPE's rights as the owner of the software. Alpha and Itanium licenses are a differant matter, there is still a market for them and development continuues to some degree. I only run an Alpha hobby machine so I have nothing to gain from a lifetime VAX license. I have both PMDF and Multinet licenses that don't expire and I paid honest money for them but I doubt I can afford the price of a VMS license. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote: A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my Mac days. A mere 1,000km, South I assume since you gave the distance in miles but I don't think you want a 7 foot rack of ES45s in your living room - the power bill, the heat, and the fan noise would wear on you after a while. Without looking it up, I imagine I am about 1,000km the other way from Kamloops. We could meet in the middle, have a beer together, and trade trailers. :) -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, ben via cctalk wrote: Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11. Ben. I once had a pDp11/04 which I let go, it did not seem like much at the time but now I feel differantly. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta
I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect the RA8000 to the servers and the cables, much of the paper documentation, and assorted doodads. It would probably work if plugged in but it has been a year since it was turned off. Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border and 10,000km from nowhere but it is summer and the weather is nice so we might be able to load this great heavy beast on a trailer and haul it up to a day's drive away if anybody want this stuff. This is rural Alberta so a day's drive is a l-o-n-g way (like 1,000km?). I tried to give this away in early 2019 but the deal fell through. If I don't get a place to send it then I will keep the DS15 and convert the rest of it into scrap metal. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Margaret Hamilton Guardian interview.
Lyndon, I have never heard of her before and had no idea. I am frequently amazed when I discover just how much you know... Or how much spare time to surf the web for obsure stuff... Either way you earn my respect. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: George Comstock
I've seen that cat before but we printed them on a line printer since the company did not like us using the high quality Diablo for such nonsense. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Only never in Canada - dumb terminals
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019, Tony Duell wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:42 PM Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: I'm not in Canada but I have a Volker-Craig VC414 (APL version) _with the service manual_. This is a poor copy (obtained from VC -- and they forgot to copy half of one of the schematics so I had to reverse-engineer that part) but I can try to scan it sometime. I would like to see that scanned and set to bitsavers, all they have right now is some vc4404 material. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Only never in Canada - dumb terminals
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Mike Kenzie via cctalk wrote: I have a several in Ottawa as well. A few different brands, ASR, Dec, VC Do you have any Volker-Craig user or service documentation? Docs from Canadian companies seem to disappear in a puff of green smoke. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Only never in Canada - dumb terminals
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, ben via cctalk wrote: I am building a project that needs to use a Stand alone dumb terminal like a VT 52 or Similar. Alas I can't find any low cost Hardware Solutions here in Canada. Low cost with shipping under is $150 Canadian for me.Software terminal emulation is just a stop gap fix. Any ideas out there. Even a better search keyword than "dumb terminal" would help. Ben. I have a couple Volker-Craigs in the attic doing nothing. They are a bit newer than a VT52 but they are pretty dumb and I am in Athabasca. You can have them for free, you can get them soon if you come get them yourself. You can get them later if you wait for me to bring them to you. Volker-Craigs were built out of TTL in Waterloo, Ontario between 1980 and 1985 and they do RS-232. I probably have the service manual if I look hard. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: 1983 UBC PDP-11 Unix tools distribution
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not where you anticipate UNIX showing up. But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX? Between 1985 and 1990 I became aquainted with a guy named Jim Stewart who was teaching VAX/VMS programming for DEC in Vancouver and had a previous life administering and programming VAX/VMS machines at TRIUMF. Even three or four years ago Dow Chemical was still using VAXen running VMS to manage their chemical plant(s) near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta and some time earlier the last surviving L-1011 (or was it a DC10?) flight simulator was in Vancouver and it was controlled by a VAX-11/7?? long after VAXen had fallen out of fashion. PDP11 boxes and VAXen show up in some really obscure places. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: I also know I think other have their dibs in first. But if they wash out... Thanks John, I will keep you in mind. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, Jim Manley wrote: I've got everything lined up to do a full pickup, except the timing. It will have to be next Saturday, 2/2, or preferably 2/9, but I appreciate that the owner has waited this long. The only potential bugaboo could be the weather, but the cycle seems to be favorable at the moment. However, I just heard that the dreaded Polar Vortex may bust out of The Great White North and cause Al Gore to switch from air conditioning to heating in his oversized 50,000-foot environment-unto-itself mansion in Tennessee. February 2 would be the best date. I am away the weekend of February 8 and would have to get somebody else meet you and help you load. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
Gentemen, All of you have at one time expressed interest in all or part of this rack full of Alphaservers and one of you even talked about driving a truck up from Montana and taking it all home. Are any of you still interested? First priority goes to anybody willing to come up here and pick up all or part of the collection. I will consider shipping if that is what it comes down to but the packing and transprotation will be expensive for the DS15 and extremely expensive for the other units. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote: Not to start a flame war, but I?m well aware VMS supports clustering pretty well, so I?m puzzled - does anyone know why the Product Description called out Tru64 rather than VMS or both? Was Compaq de-emphasizing VMS when that was written? DEC, Compaq, and HP always had separate part numbers and product descriptions for Tru64, VMS, and Windows systems. I know from repeated experiance that you can run either OS on these systems and I also know that all the ES45 hardware is supported by VMS including the video cards. I also know that the DS20 mother boards had hardware on them such as USB controllers and maybe SCSI controllers that were not supported by either OS. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Jacob Ritorto wrote: There are contractors who have the hardware to correctly and contractually perform mil spec data wipe in situations like this. More thorough than leaving sitting on some shelf and crossing fingers that one will find time to burn them or whatever. I seriously don't care what happens to their data or their disks. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Lots of unused CompacTape IV Cartridges Available
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Kevin McQuiggin wrote: I have a couple of compatible drives that I use on my Microvaxes, if you could spare say 6 then that?d be great. I live in Vancouver and of course would pay shipping! Good! Six down, 114 to go! I will get six for you. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote: Wikipedia reports there is some variability in ES45 models, including number of CPU and amount of memory. Any idea what model/spec these are? If I recall correctly the ES45s each have 2 CPUs. The three ES45s are not intentical, the one that was purchased first had a CPU upgrade after a couple years but I do not recall either part number. I have no idea what the other two have for CPUs. Two of them have 32Gbyte of RAM, the cold spare is unknown. Also: ?...The AlphaServer SC was a supercomputer constructed from a set of These were single computers that happen to be in the same rack. Two of them have the special HP cluster card whose name and number I forget so they were formed into a TruCluster once upon a time. I hope hard enough that this cluster gets saved that if no-one else comes forward, I?d like to be notified?.I?m not certain what I could arrange, but the thought of running my own personal Alpha supercomputer ? wow. Not sure how to solve the license issue though. I assume OpenVMS doesn?t support that level of parallelization? I assume that VMS does support that level of parallelization. Anything Tru64 Unix does VMS does better. Anything Linux does Tru64 Unix does better. Have I made my bigotry clear? You will seriously raise your electric bill and somewhat lower your heating bill. All of this hardware is 120V single phase but it would like a couple circuit breakers all to itself. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 12/17/2018 04:02 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server, and the associated fibre switches in need of a new home. Where are the servers located? Are they in Athabasca, Alberta Canada near you? Yes, they are within 1/2 mile of me... In Athabasca, Alberta Canada Is the owner keeping the raw disks or are they disks staying in sleds / enclosures? Read: Are the enclosures sans-disks available? I can get the sleds if they are of use to you. These machines all use the narrow HP Storage Works carriers not the wide blue or green ones. They can be had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free. Does it need to move as a single lot? Or is someone (you?) willing to passel things out (assuming everything moves relatively quickly)? All the dispersal, packing, and shipping will be done by me. The owner wants no part of it. I am willing to send small quantities of things hither and yon. Shipping a DS15 will be hard work but possible, shipping an ES45 will be seriously hard. I am unwilling to box and ship the RA8000/HSG80 but I am willing to part it out. Anybody who wants to come visit Athabasca with a 1/2 ton truck can have the whole lot including the 7 foot rack or a subset of the whole. I would be thrilled not to have to pack and ship stuff. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Lots of unused CompacTape IV Cartridges Available
I have access to a trove of maybe 10 dozen unused CompacTape IV cartridges. These can be had free for the cost of shipping. I may be able to talk them out of a few DLT4000 and DLT tape drives as well, I don't know about that part. Anybody besides me still backing up his data on DLTs? I have a lifetime of spare cartridges already. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home
Ladies and gentlemen, I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server, and the associated fibre switches in need of a new home. There three servers that were running Tru64 Unix 5 when shut down a week ago, they are a DS15, and two ES45s. There is also a third ES45 which has not run in a decade and was kept around as a cold spare. None of the RA8000 disk will be available because the present owner is protecting his data (of course) but all of the unused spare disks are available and they will fit the internal slots in the DS15 and ES45s which may or may not have disks depending on the whim of the present owner. Lots of paper docs and Tru64 OS installation kits but no licenses. They can be had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Desktop Metaphor
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: How many graphical Unix desktops are sold or distributed in the world today that are not Linux? Excluding Mac OS X as I specifically address that point, I think. I am replying to this email on a FreeBSD 10.3 box and Motif. I don't know what FreeBSD runs out of the box because I immediately delete it and install Motif. FreeBSD may not have the installed base of Linux but it has a its fans. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: AlphaServers
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote: Anyone out there do Alphas anymore? Well my AS4100 is running OpenVMS even as we speak. I have an Alphastation 500 here doing nothing. I arranged for somebody to get two free DS20Es last year so, yes, I still do alphas. Intel? Don't need no stinkin' intel around here. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: DEC Storageworks
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote: The alphaserver 1000a I have has a storageworks array. The disk carriers are green in color, I see storageworks disks for sale on ebay that are blue. What is the difference? Are they interchangeable? Is it possible (or even wise) to open one of the green carriers and change the disk out? Yes, the disks are interchangeable. I have used blue disks in a green shelf and green disks in a blue shelf. The modules come apart fairly easily and you can replace the drives or remove drives and use them as ordinary SCSI drives elsewhere - I have done that too. DEC and Compaq also sold DLTs in a StorageWorks module those can also be taken apart and the drive replaced but they are harder to get apart and you must pay attention if you hope to get it reassembled properly. Doug -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Looking for a home
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: One of the Suns is a Sun1 pre-production Perhaps a pre-production Sparc? I had a long personal relationship with a Sun-1 and nothing there looks remotely like a Sun-1. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, David C. Jenner via cctalk wrote: This isn't malware, but back in 1962 when I was taking a college class in assembly language programming for the IBM 709, my innocence led to the following. We might as well all contribute. Back in college in 1969 we would submit our Fortran IV assignments on punched card of course. One day I got back junk and discovered that it was not my card deck under the account ID card so I went through the pile of returned decks and printouts and found that another student had swiped my deck and put his name on top so I took back the deck and shuffled his deck well before returning his ID card to the top and resubmitting it. I never heard a thing about that episode but I sometimes wonder what his next output looked like. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: C64's still managing building systems
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: That seems to describe perfectly the approach to our (Canada's) federal payroll system that's gone from a $5 million contract to $180m in two years, with lots of employees still not getting their correct pay or any pay at all I think it should be called the Icarus Project rather than the Pheonix Project since Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell to his death in compoarison to the Pheonix who dies in flames and rises from his own ashes. I don't see much hope of this Pheonix rising any time soon. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character and moved on. I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8... And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8? And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I didn't have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: DecWindows on remote display
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Wit. There was a Mozilla build for VAX??? I have Netscape Navigator 3, but I thought that was the last VAX build. It runs ... acceptably on my M76, though I wouldn't call it sprightly. No, I remembered after I sent it. It would be Netscape 3?. But remember!! It is spelled Netscape but it is pronounced Mozilla! :) I still have that 3100. I wonder if the disk will spin up? I took out the battery on general principle, it is sitting up here beside me with nary a leak, it has been lying there for years... -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
DEC LK201 Keyboards for VT220 terminals etc.
It seems to me that somebody recently was looking for an LK201 style keyboard with the RJ style connector. If somebody is indeed looking for such a keyboard then send me an email, I came across a couple today that I may be able to aquire. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
RE: dd-equivalent for VMS
On Sat, 17 Jun 2017, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I have cloned drives that way for VMS systems. Backup/image is the tool for that. So have I, but it doesn't work for tapes. Unless someone knows a trick that I have not discovered? No, backup won't do what you want. Backup is designed to save and restore Files-11 on disk file systems and requires access to index.sys and bitmap.sys which translates to mean that it is not doing a sequential block by block copy like "dd" does. A common use for backup/image was to backup a disk and then restore it back to the disk to eliminate fragmentation, that would not be possible with a raw block by block copy. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Pete Lancashire wrote: Displaying that Motif session on a 'real' CRT that takes 1/3 of your desk, weights 50+ lbs and takes around 150W. I had a lovely 21" trinitron CRT here that I sent to the dump last year, it had sat idle in the storage room for ten years and I needed the space. That is shameful. On the other hand, I feel no guilt about sending a few white box pentiums to the dump along with a couple ghetto blasters. No jury would ever convict me! Oh! Wait! I have a VAXstation 3100 and its associated 50lb monochrome CRT still in the storage room. I will have to dig it out some time... -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!
My monster lives! After being brought home in a dozen parts, cleaned with Windex and an air compressor, and reassembled, my Alphaserver 4100 is once again up and running OpenVMS. There were a couple minor snags while I went up to the attic to find a CPU fan, move a ton of stuff to find an electrical outlet, and reseated the memory modules but all that is behind me now. It is using lots of electricity and making lots of noise while displaying a Motif session in a 19" liquid crystal monitor without a stand... What could be better than this? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: xv and VMS
On Wed, 17 May 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches collected by Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on eliminating unsafe calls like strcpy() and sprintf(). Could I get some of you VMS people to check out my work and submit any necessary changes? Well! That is a horse of a differant colour! I will be glad to let you do the work instead of me and I will be glad compile it and run it and submit bug reports etc. This is work worth doing IMHO. I also have a long neglected plan to port the heirloom troff/nroff code over to VMS just because I am too lazy to switch to Digital Standard Runoff. No matter what the platform, of all the image viewers/editors out there, XV is the viewer I love the best!! -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: xv and VMS
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work. I have already learned that in only four months. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Re: xv and VMS
On Tue, 16 May 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer? Yes, I am. My Alphaserver 4100 is down at the moment since I had to move it and it has been waiting four months for me to put it back together. XV works fine with VMS and there are a bunch of patches to get some more recent formats running on it but I could not resolve all the dependancies when I last tried to compile them in. I am now retired so maybe I will find the time to get all that software glued together. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
RE: Model 28 Teletypes in Edmonton, Alberta
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, W2HX wrote: I might have missed it, but did you offer this on the greenkeys list (or would you like me to forward it?) they are tty enthusiasts. Eugene No, I have never been a member of the green keys list and there is no point in joining now. Punt the message to the green keys list if you can. I still have (because they are small and portable) a set of model 28 service manuals, a keyboard assembly, a print mechanism (a carriage assembly?), a box of unperforated five level tape rolls, and a few unused but quite elderly ribbons if anybody has a use for them. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Model 28 Teletypes in Edmonton, Alberta
So, my ex-wife sent my Model 28 RO and Model 28 ASR (along with a Conn vacuum tube electronic organ) to the landfill yesterday. I am told by my son that they went to the Eco Station Reuse Area at either the Ambleside or kennedale Eco Station. So, in the unlikely event that somebody wanting a 28 tty and within travelling distance of Edmonton, Alberta reads this, those items are reported to be there for taking. Oh, and bring a truck and a very strong friend. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
