[cctalk] Re: WAS: Amoeba OS, Now: VAX/VMS Licensing?

On 01/04/2024 00:45, W2HX wrote: Hi all, I am completely ignorant when it comes to VMS licensing and how it works (or worked). I purchased a MicroVAX that is running VMS V5.3. Do I need to worry about it ceasing to work at some point? I don’t have any paperwork for the license, just a running

[cctalk] Re: Amoeba OS

On 28/03/2024 23:29, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote: The only legal[0] workaround for VMS on VAX is to go back all the way before LMF was introduced which IIRC means running VMS 4.4 and nothing newer. It's no more legal than running VMS V6.1 without a valid PAK (that was legally

[cctalk] Re: Cleanup time again

On 23/03/2024 15:56, Henry Bent via cctalk wrote You have to look at sold listings to get an idea of what they are actually selling for. There are many, shall we say, overly ambitious sellers when it comes to vintage hardware.

[cctalk] Re: VAX 4000 console SLU in need of some TLC

On 21/03/2024 21:51, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: Assuming you find a solution for the console port issue, can't you just try netbooting it and see what mac address the load requests have? You could either use some ethernet monitoring software such as tcpdump, ethermon, wireshark or whatever

[cctalk] Re: VAX 4000 console SLU in need of some TLC

On 21/03/2024 22:03, Jonathan Stone wrote: What kind of VAX 4000? One with DSSI connectors on the "S:U", or the /VAX 4000-200/KA660, which has serial and Ethernet? IIRC you can klludge up the latter using a KA630 SLU, and either re-using the AUI/10base-2 part of the SLU, or kludging one from a

[cctalk] VAX 4000 console SLU in need of some TLC

I have a VAX 4000 with a console SLU that has been host to a battery for far too long. I removed the battery some time ago and cleaned things up with vinegar and IPA. Then I had PSU issues, which I've resolved by swapping for a NOS one (thanks Witchy!). Last Wednesday (13-MAR-2024) it

[cctalk] Re: Current SOA scsi disk emulators for DEC

On 03/12/2023 16:27, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: That is my question. I have used a couple of versions of the SCSI2SD boards in the past with Viking, Emulex QC07, DEC RQXZ1 controllers in the past, and also direct connections to MicroVax SCSI buss's. There are other manufacturers of

[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004

On 21/11/2023 23:14, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: More information is here: https://firstmicroprocessor.com/?doing_wp_cron=1700608229.8666059970855712890625 I think that is the designers (Rod Holt?) website. Apparently he won a legal battle to use the term "first microprocessor" for whatever

[cctalk] Re: Any RSX-11 fans able to identify file types?

On 27/06/2023 21:17, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Different thing, I believe. Gotcha. I'd find it funny and perfectly fitting if DEC had two departments working on the same concept and coming up with completely different, but equally oddball solution Like the VAX 6000 and the VAX 9000 :-)

[cctalk] Re: Gb Ethernet and 10Mb links

On 29/05/2023 00:30, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote Along those lines, 10gig copper interfaces often don't want to talk to 100mbit ports! Found that out when we had a switch fail and stuck an older 10/100 switch in just to get back up and running. I believe the 10Gb standard specifically

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

On 25/05/2023 19:47, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: Not only that, but all correctly implemented GigE devices will fall back not just to 100 but also to 10 Mb/s. That's part of standards conformance, and from what I can tell even low cost devices like D-Link or Netgear do this. Yes,

[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

On 18/05/2023 05:16, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: Now what are the options. Greaseweazle or ? What are the advantages and disadvantates of each? For the Greaseweazle it looks like I can get one and it seems to be open source with schematics of the hardware. I'd prefer more buffering of the

[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

On 17/05/2023 04:56, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: EXACTLY! I was told that was the best solution for this sort of thing. Are there any downsides to doing it that way? If I do go that route, what are the options? I have no knowledge of them and thus no preference for one over another As I said

[cctalk] Re: mainframe vs mini

On 17/03/2023 16:34, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: This goes by way of what RT11 originally called a "fork queue" but was told to rename to "fork list" :-) The story was that Dave Cutler had a T-shirt made with "fork queue" on it, but I don't know if that's actually true. Antonio --

[cctalk] Re: Computer of Thesus (was: Re: Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man)

On 23/01/2023 20:38, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: Are you referring to Jeri Ellsworth? As far as I know she only fabricated an IC with simple logic gates on them, but it's possible she may have gone on to do more complex stuff, like a CPU. I think the reference was to Sam Zeloof:

[cctalk] Re: AI applied to vintage interests

On 19/01/2023 20:25, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: At least the machines care ;) Sellam That's possibly the best epitaph any of us will ever get :-) Antonio -- Antonio Carlini anto...@acarlini.com

[cctalk] Re: AI applied to vintage interests

On 19/01/2023 15:25, Chris via cctalk wrote: Never been in an accident that wasn't TOTALLY AND ENTIRELY the fault of the other driver. And in both instances they hit me. So after 38 years of driving, I need a computer to do it for me. Sorry I'll pass. Maybe 10(+?) years from now, assuming L5

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

On 21/11/2022 21:45, Antonio Carlini wrote: I have two more I can open up and look at, but I cannot get to them tonight and I'm probably out tomorrow too. But I think I can get to those other two supplies on Wednesday. Hopefully at least one of them will be readable! Otherwise I can desolder

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

On 20/11/2022 21:03, Rob Jarratt wrote: Thanks Antonio, The location of the diode is arrowed on this picture: https://rjarratt.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/img_20221120_205802-arrowed.jpg You can also see the heatsink where the transistor used to be. This is mine:

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

On 20/11/2022 17:40, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: The H7842 PSU in my Rainbow failed yesterday. At first the machine just powered down and there was a slight burning smell, I wasn't next to the machine when this happened, so I didn't see or hear anything to tell me where the problem might be.

[cctalk] Re: Is this a RIFA (uV3100-10 PSU)?

On 15/11/2022 23:22, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: My experience with a H7822 is that when all the diagnostic LEDs stay lit, DC OK is probably not getting asserted so the power supply might still not be working 100% correctly.  In the H7822, DC OK seems to be the purple lead and high

[cctalk] Re: Is this a RIFA (uV3100-10 PSU)?

On 24/10/2022 21:07, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: the bitsbox one may be a teensy bit to large but the ebay one should fit nicely. Neither is too expensive even with postage so I'll buy a few, given that I do have a fair few PSUs knocking around. Just a quick follow-up in case it helps

[cctalk] Re: Inline Serial Device?

On 12/11/2022 10:28, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: I thought it was well-known that nothing can be designed without at least one microcontroller. The other day I saw a product with a flashing LED, the flash rate was set with a knob. Yes, a microcontroller with a pot connected to an analogue

[cctalk] Re: Is this a RIFA (uV3100-10 PSU)?

On 01/11/2022 23:10, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I've taken the boards out of a whole bunch of H7821 and H7822 PSUs to replace the electrolytics without removing the fans.  It was difficult at first but the more I did, the easier it got.  I did come across one seized fan along the way but

[cctalk] Re: Is this a RIFA (uV3100-10 PSU)?

On 24/10/2022 21:07, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: the bitsbox one may be a teensy bit to large but the ebay one should fit nicely. Neither is too expensive even with postage so I'll buy a few, given that I do have a fair few PSUs knocking around. Turns out both sets of X2 caps I bought

[cctalk] Re: Is this a RIFA (uV3100-10 PSU)?

On 23/10/2022 20:19, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: It looks like the RIFA caps I've removed from my DEC H7864 P/S. Though mine were colored more toward the amber you find dead flies fossilized in and had visible cracks in the case.  The RIFA logo/name was on one side with other

[cctalk] Is this a RIFA (uV3100-10 PSU)?

I'm working on cleaning up a bit of battery leakage in a MicroVAX 3100 Model 10 and while it's apart I decided to look inside the PSU (an H7822-00). It's nice and clean inside with no bulging caps. What it does have is an X2 capacitor, as shown here:

[cctalk] Re: Soviet PDP clones

On 18/10/2022 14:18, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: I assume the story about the message is accurate (I heard it from a senior guy at DEC who should know) but that doesn't mean it was actually cloned. It seems to be an engineer reaction to hearing about their earlier work being stolen.

[cctalk] Re: DEC H7868 Power Supplies

On 29/08/2022 21:40, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: While cleaning up I found a box with 3 H7868 power supplies. Once upon a time I had a BA213 and BA215 Vax. One of them has a cable coming out the top of it and probably went to the BA213 box which had only one power supply. The other two

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

On 03/06/2022 03:09, Rick Murphy via cctalk wrote: On 6/1/2022 12:49 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: No one ever called it a "Digital Ethernet Personal Computer Bus Adapter", just a DEPCA. I never previously knew that there was any meaning behind the DEPCA name. Yes, that's what it meant.

Re: HP9825 internal ROM?

On 04/05/2022 21:40, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Question for the group: I'm working on a HP9825B here. First thing I did was take it apart, clean it, unplug all the power connections to the board and test the power supply. Supply is good (values below) so after checking the boards I put it

Re: Advice on Desoldering an IC

On 15/04/2022 18:49, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I am using a fairly cheap desoldering station (this one https://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/d00672/desoldering-station-uk-eu-plug/dp/SD 01384?st=duratool%20desoldering). Its spec in terms of vacuum pressure is equivalent to that of the professional

Re: AlphaServer 2100s available

On 14/04/2022 22:36, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: (OFFLIST, I think) I will learn to get this right eventually :-) -- Antonio Carlini anto...@acarlini.com

Re: AlphaServer 2100s available

On 12/04/2022 16:34, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote: Folks, Does no one fancy a go at this. Had zero interest... Dave (OFFLIST, I think) I'm assuming the machine is safe, at least for the moment? I've actually got less room now than when I had to let it go, so hopefully it can just sit in

Re: Quantum ATL-7100 DLT Changer in SLC

On 09/04/2022 16:58, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: You wouldn’t be able to put TK-70 drives in this, wrong interface. I don’t know if DEC DLT drives capable of reading TK50’s and TK70’s will work in one. I have two TZ877 units, each of which contains a TZ87, and those will read TK50 and TK70

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

On 28/03/2022 04:57, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: Very little of the stuff I've bought new has had such seals (with some things, like my audio equipment, you are _expected_ to remove the covers, the user manuals tell you how. They also include the full schematics). Ditto test gear (if there is

Re: Installing an operating system on an 11/83

On 22/02/2022 14:19, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: That didn't stop me being massively nervy installing a VMS v5.0 upgrade from RX50s to a customer's VAX 11/50... I think it was the first one that I'd done so no pressure. I remember doing the V5 upgrade on a VAX-11/750 but via tape. You

Re: Installing an operating system on an 11/83

On 22/02/2022 03:27, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95? I never installed it this way myself, but MicroVMS on the MicroVAX II was distributed on RX50 floppies: lost of them. Of course, that was then and the floppy drives were

Re: VAX9000 unearthed

On 18/02/2022 17:16, Lee Courtney via cctalk wrote: Paul, What was the timeframe for the MPP? Lee The earliest DECmpp reference I can find is from 1991: https://eisner.decus.org/anon/htnotes/note?f1=INDUSTRY_NEWS=551.1 You can peruse the service manual here:

Re: VAX9000 unearthed

On 18/02/2022 20:35, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: There also was an effort at one point to adopt FutureBus in DEC systems. We did a pile of design in the network architecture group to figure out how to handle interrupts and bus cycles efficiently; I don't remember if anything actually

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

On 01/02/2022 16:17, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: Covering more distance in the same time means increased speed to me! Not if you stretch the bits, as older drives did. You are still covering more linear distance per unit time but the magnetic data is smeared out just enough to

Re: Women of Computing

On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 10:20 AM Chris Long via cctalk wrote: Great.not. Why do we need woke Lego? Excellent use of compression on the list: a question that contains its own answer :-) Antonio -- Antonio Carlini anto...@acarlini.com

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

On 20/11/2021 18:46, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: Is there an archive.org mirror? How many of us could afford the disk space? 30PB in 2016 apparently. I know that 10 years from now we'll all have PB drives, but right now it would be hard. That's 8 years of downloading @ 1Gbps. So I suspect

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:34 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk Michael asked What are we, as a community, to do to fix this and make sure that our history stays peserved and isn't one bad day away from vanishing. Whenever some new vintage computing page appears I go to archive.org and submit the

Re: DEQNA cab kit wiring

On 03/11/2021 16:15, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: Thanks for the outstandingly-quick response!  I had already buttoned up the cab and put it aside for another day. Thanks also for the link to a site I did not know about, I'll bookmark it for later browsing. Soldering iron on! The DEQNA

Re: Sun-2 and Sun-3 mice (eBay)

On 26/10/2021 07:43, r.stricklin via cctech wrote Hadn't realized before that there were Sun-2 mice which weren't black (were white/beige). I know some folks are looking. "Unable to test. Some yellowing" That needs some serious cleaning ... although that would then expose even more

Re: MD5 list of bitsavers files

On 01/10/2021 08:36, Paul Flo Williams wrote: https://vt100.net/manx/assets/2021-10-01-bitsavers-dec.md5 Paul Thanks for that. It turns out that some of the bitsavers files have changed since I picked them up (perhaps to add OCR of similar). (I also got further data from Richard via email,

MD5 list of bitsavers files

I'm trying to list out the document scans I have and work out which are already on bitsavers and which are not (and, indeed, a fair few of these are originally from bitsavers anyway). This is probably several thousand files total, so searching manx by hand is not an option! I see that manx

Re: Setting up a VMS system

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

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

On 21/09/2021 18:38, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote: (At least for Qbus. At eBay prices, even RQDX3 plus distribution panel plus emulator, is cheaper than bootable SCSI controller plus SCSI emulator). SCSI performance will still be better. My recollection is that the MicroVAX 2000

Re: Anyone Have the H9642 Enclosure Maintenance Manual EK-187AA-MG

On 04/09/2021 14:26, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I have looked on Manx and on Bitsavers and I don't see it there. Do you need the H9642 specifically or is it just the embedded MicroVAX  3600 that you want to know about? If so then EK-189AA-MG-001 will possibly do. It's really for the

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

On 04/09/2021 02:42, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: On 7/14/2021 12:32 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: VT100 to the rescue, the VLC is fine talking to it so now I'm wondering why my old faithful hardware UART in this PC I'm typing on now has let me down. The BlueSCSI appears as 7 devices

Re: Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

On 02/09/2021 20:51, Paul Flo Williams via cctalk wrote: With apologies for breaking the threading, as I've just rejoined and I'm responding to something I've just spotted in the archive ... Welcome back! I haven't finished writing this up, but my workflow tends to be to produce a Group4

Re: Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

On 28/08/2021 12:44, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: I always fail to understand this ... With prices for hard drives like they are, and comparing to the amount of work, it really is to scan a manual, I would recommend to scan with the best resolution you have, and have those files as you

Re: Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

On 28/08/2021 09:21, æstrid smith via cctalk wrote: i've achieved satisfactory results paletteizing scans of low-color-depth material using a tool called 'noteshrink': https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html Well as a guide the 66 page AA-CJ39A-TE (VAX-11 RSX Installation Guide

Re: Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

On 27/08/2021 22:10, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 8/27/21 2:05 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: For material such as the RSX manuals you mentioned, the tool needed is a compression algorithm that handles color with hard edges faithfully.  Basically that means a lossless compression scheme. 

Re: Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

On 27/08/2021 22:05, Paul Koning wrote: JPG is the wrong tool for pages with color text or color line art. As I've mentioned before, JPG is fit ONLY for photos, not for any image with hard edges. Text compressed with JPG will suffer badly. Yes, true. I thought that for colour, all I could

Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

I have a few manuals to scan and I'm looking for suggestions, about how to add bookmarks and how to handle colour. Bookmarks should be easier, so lets start with that. I want to add bookmarks (or whatever they are called) so that it is easy to navigate to page "2-48" or "C-17" in a document.

Re: Extremely CISC instructions

On 26/08/2021 04:41, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: And yes there were CRTs set up at the factory for the northern and southern hemispheres. I remember Bang and Olufsen made a TV where the CRT was effectively mounted upside-down (so that the EHT connector was far enough from the cabinet to meet

Re: Ultrix-11

On 17/08/2021 19:39, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: I thought V7M and Ultrix were entirely diferent and unrelated things. At least on the Pro, DEC released a betal version of the one (which I tried when it came out) and then canceled it and replaced it by a release of the other. I forgot which

H7868 Power Supply Schematics

I have a non-functioning H7868 PSU. This is one of the two PSUs used in a BA214 chassis (and probably elsewhere). This one seems to be dead: the green LED doesn't come on at all, there is no sign of life and no +5V appears on the BA214 Qbus. (I did use a load board when testing, so that's

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

On 14/07/2021 18:32, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: VT100 to the rescue, the VLC is fine talking to it so now I'm wondering why my old faithful hardware UART in this PC I'm typing on now has let me down. Given the possible issues (dead VLC line drivers, iffy cable, iffy PC UART) you've

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

On 13/07/2021 22:34, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 7/13/2021 3:30 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: Hi folks, Powering up with nothing attached apart from an MMJ/H8571 cable I get nothing on the console, I'm using PuTTY via a genuine COM1 port on a PC which is one level above what I

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

On 13/07/2021 20:30, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: Clearly the DALLAS has passed the TOY tests, but if it's not happy would that stop the console displaying? It doesn't matter how I set S3, next step I guess is to hook it up to a 'proper' VT. My VS4000-60 has a DALLAS chip that is either dead

Re: First new vax in ...30 years? :-)

On 05/07/2021 21:48, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 7/4/21 1:52 PM, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote: In case anyone was interested in an FPGA VAX implementation http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.html And/or thoughts on 64bit/FP & multiprocessor enhancements :-p

Re: VT100 colors

On 22/06/2021 08:16, Matt Burke via cctalk wrote: The VT640 had a green phosphor. This was a 3rd party upgrade for the VT100 from Digital Engineering which gives the VT100 graphical capabilities. Part of the upgrade involved changing the picture tube. I suspect this was to reduce flicker as the

Re: VT100 colors

On 21/06/2021 17:10, Antonio Carlini wrote: On 21/06/2021 15:39, Paul Koning wrote: You're thinking of the VT200, which came in three colors, although at DEC fortunately they never inflicted green on us :-).  But all the earlier DEC video terminals (VT05, VT50/52/61t/62, VT20, VT71) were

Re: VT100 colors

On 21/06/2021 15:39, Paul Koning wrote: You're thinking of the VT200, which came in three colors, although at DEC fortunately they never inflicted green on us :-). But all the earlier DEC video terminals (VT05, VT50/52/61t/62, VT20, VT71) were white. The only exception I can think of is

Re: VT100 colors

On 21/06/2021 07:51, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: I want to say that it’s white. Though I can’t get to mine right now. Zane Sent from my iPod On Jun 20, 2021, at 10:50 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote: Hello, Does anyone know what colors a VT100 is? Most photos online has it

Re: VAXstation 4000/vlc mouse issue

On 01/06/2021 17:41, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: It would be interesting to attach a UART to the comm link (4800 bps, RS-232 signal levels) and capture what happens. It's quite strange to see a system failure caused by pressing a button. I suppose it could be a bug in the system software

Re: Writings on AI from 17 years ago....

On 31/05/2021 23:55, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Sure, Library of Alexadria, lots of examples through history. Oddly enough people like to find this stuff, centralize it somewhere, then burn it to the ground. Go figure. And make sure all of your stuff is backed up all over the place, it's

Re: RSTS/E version numbers

On 31/05/2021 15:04, Paul Koning wrote: The earlier rule was that the first number is the major version, the letter is the minor version. As of V7 it changed to major number dot minor number. In either case, the dash number suffix is the baselevel number (development build cycle number).

RSTS/E version numbers

Can someone explain RSTS/E version numbers to me? They seem to be all over the place: V2A-19, V4A-12, V4B-17, V5A-21, V5B-24, V5C-01, V6A-02, V6B-02, V6C-03. Then it seems to have switched scheme but the "-number" suffix reappears: V7.0, V7.2, V8.0-06. Any clarification would be helpful.

Re: MicroVAX 3300/3400

On 25/05/2021 18:53, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: I’m still not 100% sure if this is a 3300 or a 3400. It’s in a BA400X chassis, and after looking at the manuals last night, it seems like it’s closer to the 3400. My familarity with Q-Bus MicroVAXen is limited to MicroVAX/VAXstation II’s, and

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

On 20/05/2021 21:11, John-Paul Stewart via cctalk wrote: Setting ufstype=sun will indeed work for loopback mounting Ultrix CD images. With physical CDs, the Linux CD-ROM driver expects the filesystem to use 2048 byte blocks but the UFS CDs have 512 byte blocks. So you'll also have to add

Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

I'm running Linux Mint (an ubuntu derivative) and I want to mount ULTRIX CDROM discs to see what I can see. (I'm eventually going to image these, but I presume that will "just work" with dd or ddrescue). They are supposed to be UFS format (according to the net) and that usually means you

Re: DEC DUP

On 20/05/2021 20:28, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: posting this over here, if anyone has any clues for this guy i could dig in the DEC archive but it won't be any fun to find

Re: VAXstation 4000 Mice?

On 20/05/2021 18:22, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote: It does indeed need a VSXXX-AA mouse (the round puck) or a VSXXX-AB tablet (or compatible). \ I recently checked both installation guide and service guide, whilst looking at eBay offerings. I recently went through my DEC mice to test them

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 18/05/2021 10:17, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: The content of your posting which I was replying to and the error message you quoted suggested to me that your concern was that the bookreader files you are attempting to read are "corrupt". I think Zane was reading the files from an ISO

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 16/05/2021 21:53, Zane Healy wrote: What exactly is VAX/VMS V5.5-2H4? I’ve never been too clear on that. It’s just V5.5-2 with added hardware support, isn’t it? Yes, that would seem to be the case: |---|-|--||9|

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 16/05/2021 21:00, Zane Healy wrote: Does anyone know if a 5.5-2 era CONOLD is available? These that have just been made available are beyond awesome, as I gave my paper set of 5.x doc’s to Paul Allen’s computer museum, only keeping the basic 6 paperbacks, since I have a complete 6.x set,

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 16/05/2021 13:51, Malte Dehling wrote: I have now generated a contents listing for the CONOLD CDs: https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-03 https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-07 That looks interesting: the fundamental VMS documentation is there, but very little of the

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 14/05/2021 13:45, John Foust via cctalk wrote: In the USA, it is not uncommon that a public library would have such a CD/DVD rescue machine, too. Ask a librarian. It's moot now (until I come across the next one, I guess). But given the cost and the fact that I have a 100% hit rate right

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 14/05/2021 13:40, Zane Healy wrote: Much to my surprise, I think I’m actually more interested in the Online Doc Library from ‘89 than in the CONDIST’s. It immediately made me think of VTBOOK. As of tomorrow, I’ll be on an 8-week Sabbatical, and I’m going to have to see about putting that

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 14/05/2021 10:47, Malte Dehling wrote: Perfect! Thanks so much :-) The first two are now also on archive, the InfoServer CD will follow soon: Excellent. I plan on updating the description for the CONOLD CDs with a list of the books included. That probably means writing a script to

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 14/05/2021 00:19, Matt Burke via cctalk wrote: You might want to have a look at http://de.openvms.org/spl.php Thanks, that looks really useful. I'll have to work out which updates to send him. Some time ago I made a copy of this data in an SQLite database which I've added some more

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 12/05/2021 13:58, Malte Dehling wrote: Here are the links to the relevant archive.org uploads: https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-07 https://archive.org/details/vms-ad-condist-1989-07 https://archive.org/details/vms-condist-1989-07 https://archive.org/details/vms-condist-1989-11

Re: LK201 emulator for PS-2 keyboard

On 12/05/2021 17:53, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: I remember those. I thought Jonathan was talking about the round ones, but I suppose the protocol is identical. There was also a tablet, same interface I believe. I used one of those to trace some topo maps. Does anyone know of protocol

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 10/05/2021 10:05, Malte Dehling wrote: Thanks a lot, Antonio, these are very valuable to have! I've only checked a couple of them under SIMH, so it would be helpful to know if I need to check my workflow or not. I think uploading them to archive.org would be a good long-term solution. I

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

I've now uploaded: ag-mn36e-re.tar.xz, ag-nh37b-re.tar.xz and el-cdrom-01-rev-L.tar.xz. The full set now available are: AG-MN36E-RE - VMS Consolidated Software Distribution  1989-07 Disc 1 of 1 AG-NC67C-RE - VMS Online Documentation Library    1989-07 Disc 1 of 1 AG-NH36B-RE - VMS AD

Re: Terminals wiki

On 09/05/2021 16:05, Dave via cctalk wrote: Does anyone have a mirror of the terminals wiki at https://terminals-wiki.org?  It seems to have gone dark over a year ago, and it would be a shame to lose the resource. If there is no mirror, does anyone know of a way to contact the

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 18/04/2021 18:00, Antonio Carlini wrote: I'm using a seven year old DVD-RW drive and a similarly aged DVD-ROM drive. The results are the same in either case. Life got in the way, as usual, but here are a few CDROMs to start with:

Re: That VAXStation4000vlc 3W3 video connector

On 04/05/2021 02:29, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote: Failing either solution you can make your own adapter cable: (you'll also need a case for the connector, the other connector and a

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 21/04/2021 22:13, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I've just tried ANALYZE/DISK on VAXBINMAY931 which is the oldest I can put a hand on right now and it gives exactly the same output as you got. Thanks ... that's reassuring. Individual savesets can be tested with BACKUP/LIST or (more

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

I've managed to reconstitute my SIMH config and I've checked out a few of the ISO files I managed to generate using ddrescue. The Mar 89 CONOLD and May 89 CONDIST do not even show up as media under Linux. If I get the chance I'll try out the Oxford GAME store polisher for one at least of

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 17/04/2021 23:37, Jon Elson wrote: On 04/17/2021 11:24 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: If anyone has any suggestions for how to clean CDs to recover data, I'm all ears. If by the "data side" you mean the clear side the CD is read from, those can be polished with

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 17/04/2021 19:35, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 4/17/21 11:30 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: So far I've just tried using dd to recover the data but perhaps I should try to find something that won't give up when the OS reports an unreadable sector. Anyone have any suggestions

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 17/04/2021 18:03, Zane Healy wrote: On Apr 17, 2021, at 9:24 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: If anyone has any suggestions for how to clean CDs to recover data, I'm all ears. Do you have access to a Record Store that deals in used CDs?  I kno

Re: Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

On 17/04/2021 16:53, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: On 4/17/2021 2:15 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: On Apr 16, 2021, at 11:38 AM, Malte Dehling via cctalk wrote: Whether VAXSET is on there or not, I would be very interested in ISOs of both of these either way! If Antonio does

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