Re: Micropolis 1525 stuck heads

2021-09-22 Thread Jos Dreesen via cctalk
On 22.09.21 13:46, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: On 9/20/21 1:13 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Running it through the MFM tool got all but 200 or so sectors on the first pass, most errors were on head 3 but tapered off after cyl 500. Seems like a normal copy of Accent, no special

Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hopefully a few of the DEC/VMS fans here might be able to help! I'm on a bit of a quest. I've been given some old VAX/VMS software -- a cross compiler and some source code -- that I'd like to get running. My goal is to get the source code building and experiment with the compiler a bit.

Re: VAXstation 100 ROM image

2021-09-22 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
> Does anyone have a (set of) ROM image(s) for the VAXstation 100? > It might be interesting to attempt an emulator. I think the machine has some historical interest. Barbara Liskov's CLU group received a number of VS100 terminals for their VAX. This prompted Bob Scheifler to create X. CLU

Re: Micropolis 1525 stuck heads

2021-09-22 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 9/20/21 1:13 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Running it through the MFM tool got all but 200 or so sectors on the first pass, most errors were on head 3 but tapered off after cyl 500. Seems like a normal copy of Accent, no special information so it might not be worth taking the world apart

Re: Burnable, patched Microvax-2000 SCSI-boot EPROM images?]

2021-09-22 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
..the compatible Device for the Labtool-48 is the Dataman-48, Software is here: https://www.dataman.com/dataman-4848lv-resources Regards, Holm - Forwarded message from Holm Tiffe - Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 07:45:32 +0200 From: Holm Tiffe To: Jonathan Stone Subject: Re: Burnable,

Re: R.I.P. Clive Sinclair

2021-09-22 Thread Tor Arntsen via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 00:01, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctalk wrote: > The TI people were selling their chip as a simple four operation > calculator. Here is what the Sinclair people did with it: > > http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html And that's where the

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 14:21, Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > I'm thinking of using SIMH, unless there's a better emulator available. I like VMS but I can't claim much expertise, unfortunately. I have sysadminned a few boxes, but never brought one up from scratch. However I did

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Peter Hicks via cctalk
Hi Phil I'm not sure if it helps, but I documented installing OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi a while ago at https://blog.poggs.com/2020/04/21/openvms-on-a-raspberry-pi/ Peter On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 13:21, Philip Pemberton via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hopefully a few of the

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Find a working vms system and back up the drives to your externally-attached drive (s) to clone them. Migrate the cloned drives to your system. This is a simplified statement of what's really involved but if you can get to a similar system to your dec whatever you have, I'd attempt the clone

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 22/09/2021 13:21, Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: Hopefully a few of the DEC/VMS fans here might be able to help! I'm on a bit of a quest. I've been given some old VAX/VMS software -- a cross compiler and some source code -- that I'd like to get running. My goal is to get the source

RE: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Philip > Pemberton via cctalk > Sent: 22 September 2021 13:22 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Setting up a VMS system > > Hopefully a few of the DEC/VMS fans here might be able to help! > > I'm on a bit of a quest. I've been given

scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Hello, The person that refered me to my present job at a datacenter passed away this past monday. He was a hardware / software engineer for modcomp computers. He left me all of the computers and documents. there are too many books to keep, stuff concerning the modcomp computers that is not saved

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Thank you all for the information. I would like to preserve the information and get the books to good homes if possible. I will get a listing of what is here. If the others that have modcomp books and docs can list what they have scanned and availible, that can save on a duplication of effort

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: Hasn't worked for me in the past ... guess I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 22/09/2021 17:05, Zane Healy wrote: Interesting, I have 3 34GB drives in my cluster, and haven’t had any issue. I think I was running OpenVMS VAX V7.2 on SIMH. IIRC it was fixed in V7.3 (someone sent me the DECUS Hobbyist V7.3 release and that was OK). Antonio -- Antonio Carlini

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Sep 22, 2021, at 11:21 AM, Antonio Carlini wrote: > On 22/09/2021 17:05, Zane Healy wrote: >> >> Interesting, I have 3 34GB drives in my cluster, and haven’t had any issue. > > > I think I was running OpenVMS VAX V7.2 on SIMH. IIRC it was fixed in V7.3 > (someone sent me the DECUS Hobbyist

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
> On Sep 22, 2021, at 14:05, devin davison via cctalk > wrote: > > Hello, > > The person that refered me to my present job at a datacenter passed away > this past monday. He was a hardware / software engineer for modcomp > computers. He left me all of the computers and documents. there are

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Lyle Bickley via cctalk
AFAIK, I have an entire library of MODCOMP documentation - consisting of over one thousand manuals as PDF's. I will check with the person who had the original manuals scanned and check to see if it is O.K. to zip them up and give them to AL to post on bitsavers. (I expect them to say "O.K.").

Re: Unix or BSD for Dec PDP 11/34 and 11/45

2021-09-22 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021, devin davison wrote: I'm working to get my pdp 11/34 and 11/45 running. I was curious what versions of unix or bsd would work on the machines i have. I wanted to set I'm running 2.9BSD on both our 11/34 and 11/45. If possible too, id like to be able to telnet in to unix

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Where are you located? We have a small amount of Modcomp docs here and could take on a box more of the most useful paper docs for posterity-sake, to round out what's already here. Thanks Bill Degnan kennettclassic.com Kennett Square, PA On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 3:05 PM devin davison via cctalk <

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: B/W, CCITT Group 4 tiffs at 400dpi is what I do, but then I also 600 DPI should be the absolute mininum today. There is absolutely no reason to go below that for B/W. and notify Al Kossow of an available contribution. Hasn't worked for me in the

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: Bitsavers will post process and create a searchable PDF Since when? I think I'll just step away from the terminal for a few hours. I've been OCRing uploads for YEARS.

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Sep 22, 2021, at 5:21 AM, Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > > Hopefully a few of the DEC/VMS fans here might be able to help! > > I'm on a bit of a quest. I've been given some old VAX/VMS software -- a cross > compiler and some source code -- that I'd like to get running. My goal is to

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Sep 22, 2021, at 6:05 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: > Might be faster to install on a speedy machine though (I've never tried on > any Pi but I doubt that any of them will match a Ryzen …) I tend to use VM’s on my VMware cluster. I’ve used an RPI 3b+, it was about 1.6 VUPS, so

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 9/22/21 8:44 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 14:21, Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: I'm thinking of using SIMH, unless there's a better emulator available. I like VMS but I can't claim much expertise, unfortunately. I have sysadminned a few boxes, but never

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Sep 22, 2021, at 9:28 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Not true. HP still owns it. VSI is licensed to continue development, nothing > more. HPE no longer cares about VMS and the Hobbyist Program > has ended. VSI has a Hobbyist type program but it does not cover VAX. > >>

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, devin davison via cctalk wrote: I have picked up storage containers for all the books, and i can scan it all. after that, its all probally going in the recycle bin, as i dont know where or how i would keep such a large pile of paper manuals on hand. what is the prefered

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: B/W, CCITT Group 4 tiffs at 400dpi is what I do, but then I also 600 DPI should be the absolute mininum today. There is absolutely no reason to go below that for B/W. Agreed. Bitsavers will

Re: Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 18:28, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Not true. HP still owns it. VSI is licensed to continue development, > nothing more. HPE no longer cares about VMS and the Hobbyist Program > has ended. VSI has a Hobbyist type program but it does not cover VAX. I sit

Seeking DEC BC19S (VS2000 color video/keyboard/mouse) cable

2021-09-22 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
I now have a 4-plane color graphics card for my VAXstation 2000, and I'd like to actually connect it to a display. Does anyone have a DEC BC19S cable that needs a good home? For reference, this has a DA15F connector on one end that plugs into the VAXstation, which leads to a box that screws

Re: HP-UX on HP 9000/217

2021-09-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-09-13 9:21 p.m., Larkin Nickle via cctalk wrote: Hey all, According to http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/9000_200/9000-200_periphSupp_Dec89.pdf (see PDF page 2), it seems as if HP-UX 5.1 should work on the 9000/217. http://hparchive.com/Catalogs/HP-Catalog-1986.pdf also