Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

> I'd be more than happy to buy it, do you think settling for 4.1.4 when it > can run 4.1.5? The main difference (having run both) is that 4.1.4 has a very nasty leak in the sockets code. My production ANS 500 would run out of memory after awhile because of all the sockets it opened and closed.

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Henry Bond wrote: > I'd be more than happy to buy it, do you think settling for 4.1.4 when it can > run 4.1.5? > Probably a patience moment! > > -H I also have a 5 CD set of AIX 5L for POWER V5.1 5765-E61, LCD4-1061-04 No idea what range of

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

I'd be more than happy to buy it, do you think settling for 4.1.4 when it can run 4.1.5? Probably a patience moment! -H On 27 July 2017 04:00:15 BST, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: >On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk >

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: >> > I emailed IBM regarding a license to do research with > > For the OP, having the hardware still (last I checked) entitles you > to run AIX on it. You just have to find the media, which for a system that

Re: DecWindows on remote display

> > > Probably Mozilla 1 or there about. I think that was about the time I > > > stopped trying to run any browser other than Lynx on my DEC Alpha. > > > > I'm pretty sure that was for AXP VMS. There wasn't even a Navigator 4 for > > VAX VMS that I can recall, though I'd love to be wrong. > > > >

Re: DecWindows on remote display

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: >> Probably Mozilla 1 or there about. I think that was about the time I >> stopped trying to run any browser other than Lynx on my DEC Alpha. > > I'm pretty sure that was for AXP VMS. There wasn't even a

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

I suspect that this machine was moved on because the service contract expired and a shiny new server with a service contract. Interesting method of doing business, although I did play heavy on the student. Maybe I will find a download from a less reputable source, if having the hardware

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

> > I emailed IBM regarding a license to do research with For the OP, having the hardware still (last I checked) entitles you to run AIX on it. You just have to find the media, which for a system that old is not easy. I've never been able to find 4.1.5 on CD, for example, even though I know it

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

On 2017-07-26 10:20 PM, Henry Bond via cctalk wrote: I have just got a couple of these out of the dumpster, I had to arrange palletised shipping for these monoliths. I was warned they were heavy but I wasn't expecting well, rs6000 heavy. The boot menus are far from intuitive, I have

Re: Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 02:20:49AM +0100, Henry Bond via cctalk wrote: > I have just got a couple of these out of the dumpster Welp ... checking the following: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd=sm=pseries=897/ENUS7025-F50 I can kinda see why. (disclaimer: I have

Re: DecWindows on remote display

> Probably Mozilla 1 or there about. I think that was about the time I > stopped trying to run any browser other than Lynx on my DEC Alpha. I'm pretty sure that was for AXP VMS. There wasn't even a Navigator 4 for VAX VMS that I can recall, though I'd love to be wrong. Mozilla got all the way

Re: DecWindows on remote display

> > 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

Ibm rs6000 7025-f50

I have just got a couple of these out of the dumpster, I had to arrange palletised shipping for these monoliths. I was warned they were heavy but I wasn't expecting well, rs6000 heavy. The boot menus are far from intuitive, I have actually had to rtfm. I am yet to get an OS to boot on these

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

Re: DecWindows on remote display

Probably Mozilla 1 or there about. I think that was about the time I stopped trying to run any browser other than Lynx on my DEC Alpha. Zane > On Jul 26, 2017, at 5:40 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk > wrote: > >> I have run DECwindows on a VAX 3100 model 300 under

Re: DecWindows on remote display

> I have run DECwindows on a VAX 3100 model 300 under VAX/VMS 5.5-1 using the > Motif window manager with a dozen remote DECterms open plus Emacs, a clock, > a calendar, etc. and it gave reasonable performance. The VAX was both the [...] > I was able to run Mozilla on it but performance was

Re: Whole IBM System/34 available in unknown condition

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Ian S. King via cctalk wrote: > "The scrapper wants $800"? I thought the point of going to scrap was that > the scrapper makes money on the metals, and pays you for that privilege. > Have the tables really turned so dramatically?-- Ian

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Ed Sharpe wrote: > the Dartmouth orig. ran on GE 200 series machines.. we have a core plane, > a driver card and a reel of tape from the old babe back there! What a > great gee whiz time sharing was back then.. > The GE 235 version of

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

the Dartmouth orig. ran on GE 200 series machines.. we have a core plane, a driver card and a reel of tape from the old babe back there! What a great gee whiz time sharing was back then.. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Charles Anthony

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Ed Sharpe wrote: > thanks that gives me a better understanding Charles in one chunk of my > knowledge that had a hole in it! > You're welcome. Tying all of this back to the dps8m emulator the emulator originally emulated the DPS8/M. As

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

thanks that gives me a better understanding Charles in one chunk of my knowledge that had a hole in it! Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Charles Anthony wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Ed Sharpe via cctalk

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > There's a picture of an artist's impression of the 645 here: > > http://www.multicians.org/645artist.html > > Oddly enough, that painting was on the wall right outside my office in Tech > Sq! > > Now

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

yes operators panels not the really good main panels!!. cool stuff hiding behind doors and under skins Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Ed Sharpe > from what I was told, many versions of machines by Big H

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

> From: Ed Sharpe > from what I was told, many versions of machines by Big H were used to > run multics over the span of time. Yes, it appears from what I can find that there were basically three different Honeywell machines that ran Multics: - the 6180 - the one the LCM has the

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:17 PM, william degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > >> I am not sure of the evolution path of the 635 to the 60xx; ie. if GE > had > >> an IC version of the 635 and what it was called, or it the 655 came > with a > >> non-Multics support version. > >>

Re: post from classiccmp.org: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 02:50:08PM -0500, Graham Toal via cctech wrote: > http://www.indytorrents.org/torrent/10372448/DDJ_DVD6.iso.xz > > which leads to: > > magnet:[...] [...] > I use a program called 'deluge' on Windows to download torrents the few > times I use them (usually for the Internet

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Charles Anthony < charles.unix@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The 6180 is documented has having 8 ports, the DPS8/M as having 4 ports.. > (The DPS8/M is the next hardware generation of the 6180. The SCUs were > upgraded to hold more memory and is was possible to

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

yes, I imagine someone could attempt to collet all possible front panels from all permutations and still miss one of the bizarre lashups... Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Charles Anthony wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM,

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On 7/26/2017 11:13 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM, wrote: from what I was told, many versions of machines by Big H were used to run multics over the span of time. Ed# >From the Multics timeline at multicians.org; "GE-645:

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Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:01 AM, wrote: > from what I was told, many versions of machines by Big H were used > to run multics over the span of time. Ed# > >From the Multics timeline at multicians.org; "GE-645: January, 1967" to last install: "1987: TTGL and TTGP

Re: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

from what I was told, many versions of machines by Big H were used to run multics over the span of time. Ed# In a message dated 7/26/2017 9:59:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <

RE: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel > Chiappa via cctalk > Sent: 26 July 2017 15:38 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu > Subject: Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID? > > So, I've been collecting images

DecWindows on remote display

All I decided to try this with a MicroVax 4000/400 and my Windows 7 desktop PC. (Rather than fix things around the house) Much to my surprise the CPU load was 85%, with just a single DECTERM window up. Is this usual or normal? Typing in commands via the DECTERM window was tediously slow.

Honeywall mainframe CPU front panel ID?

So, I've been collecting images of 'Multics' 'front' panels from around the Internet, intending to do a gallery. (I should explain that, in common with mainframes of that era, a Multics system had a variety of different kinds of boxes - CPUs, memories, etc - but also others, intended to support

Re: post from classiccmp.org: Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

On 07/17/2017 14:36, John Greve via cctalk wrote: > > Did you ever find a usable source? I never did find an ISO image of DDJ DVD 6. I had found numerous torrent links too, but none that I checked were still retrievable. Haven't checked the link(s) Graham Toal offered. --S.

RE: Whole IBM System/34 available in unknown condition

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin > Huntsman via cctalk > Sent: 26 July 2017 06:27 > To: Evan Koblentz ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off- > Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Whole IBM

Re: P112 supplies are exhausted

I want one... Full kit preferred. --frax On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:35 AM, David Griffith via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I've sold the last of my P112 boards. Is there still any interest in P112 > kits or boards? > > -- > David Griffith > d...@661.org > > A: Because it fouls

P112 supplies are exhausted

I've sold the last of my P112 boards. Is there still any interest in P112 kits or boards? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?