Re: PDP-11 Unix V7M-11 V1.0 under SIMH

2021-10-04 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 7:42 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Oddly enough I do have a copy of Pro/Venix 1.0 that would fit on a > Pro/350 with a 5mb hard drive. Slow as *dirt*, you could literally watch > the hard drive seek back and forth with the little arm on the side. But > it did work. I

Re: PDP-11 Unix V7M-11 V1.0 under SIMH

2021-10-04 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
I doubt you'll be able to use anything other than a RD51 drive - as this ancient V7M doesn't yet support newer drive types.  You might be able to put some of the system files on an RL02 - but I haven't confirmed there's a RL02 boot loader on this kit. Interesting. Given that it's MSCP it should

Re: PDP-11 Unix V7M-11 V1.0 under SIMH

2021-10-04 Thread Tony Nicholson via cctalk
> *Neat*! I was thinking of trying to lay this down on a real 11/23+ here > at the house, then realized I didn't have two RD51's. Can it gen on an > RD53 by chance, I could upload one of those to a disk in a weekend or > immediately with the Dave Gesswin emulator (which I need to return but >

Re: Shiner ESB Apple Network Server prototype

2021-10-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/4/21 1:05 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: https://www.applefritter.com/node/538 Interesting bit of outsider fiction.

Re: Shiner ESB Apple Network Server prototype

2021-10-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-server.html > > http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/esb/ > > "Were you a Shiner designer? " > > That would be Dennis Yarak. Dennis went to portables from the server group > and was project lead on the G4 powerbooks. Is he around

Re: Shiner ESB Apple Network Server prototype

2021-10-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/4/21 8:56 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-server.html http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/esb/ "Were you a Shiner designer? " That would be Dennis Yarak. Dennis went to portables from the server group and was project

Shiner ESB Apple Network Server prototype

2021-10-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Finally took some pictures of the (sadly non-working) Apple Network Server prototype I landed and also got around to analysing the hard disk it came with. Spoiler alert: this Shiner HE was at Netscape doing "real work" for several years at least.

Kennett Classic Wrap Up

2021-10-04 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
For those not on the KC mailing list, here is a brief wrap up from last week's event http://kennettclassic.com/comms/LocalKC20211001.html Thank you Bill