Re: Digital Standard Mumps

DSM went to InterSystems Corp. during their spree of buying up every MUMPS implementation vendor they could get their hands on. They got DataTree (DTM), Micronetics (MSM), and DSM. They already had ISM. They merged ISM and features from the others into OpenM, which evolved into Caché, their

Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist & HPE vs. HP

> On Oct 7, 2017, at 10:13 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk > wrote: > > Has anyone gotten any Hobbyist Licenses lately? I’m trying to get them, and > I notice that while I’m signing up at an HPE.com website, the initial email > comes from an HP.com address. So far no luck

Re: 5150/5151 Video Card??

should work fine u got rca and vga on that card might not be colour but it > should work > This board is not likely to be VGA. The card says "CGA-IV", so it's likely a DE-9 RGB connector. An FCC ID search reveals it to be a Chinese product, from Yangtech Electric Co. Ltd.; the FCC action date is

Re: Is MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS vintage enough to count?

> > Exactly! This! > > All versions of W9x run in 386 protected mode, with DOS sessions in > the 386's Virtual 8086 mode. > > There was no difference that I'm aware of between them. > > Between WfWg 3.11 and 9x, yes. Between 9x and NT, yes. But 95/98/ME, no, > TTBOMK. > > If there _was_ some

Re: word processor history -- interesting article (Evan Koblentz)

> > > There are or were lots of odd editors for the PC. IBM E was one -- > apparently it's quite like some mainframe tool. Came with PC-DOS and > was... strange. > > I liked EPM under OS/2, and had to get acquainted with TEDIT for disaster recovery of same. I believe "E" under OS/2 was just a

Re: Keyboards and the Model M (was Re: NEC ProSpeed 386)

> > I only use Model M keyboards. I have one for my Linux box, one for my > Mac, and one for the office Mac. I have about five more sitting in the > closet of the home office on standby, and I think I have a box of keyboards > in storage. I have a couple of Model M boards, and a Unix layout

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> > I've owned 3 Crimsons and 3 or 4 Onyx desksides. I wonder where they are > now? I know one Crimson buyer drove to Virginia Beach from Atlanta GA. > > FWIW, everyone loves the Crimson. I like the Challenge L and Onyx deskside > better. > > I know that one of my old Onyx's is in New Mexico, not

Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

> > > The problem is that type #2 here covers most people, and sadly, the > ivory towers of the industry & academia do not accept that certain > languages or language features are actually widely-liked or attractive > to people because they do not fit with the prevailing wisdom. So, > although,

Re: History [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

> > >> What IS known as FidoNet (1:138/142 here. :) ) and it's still a political > shit-show, mostly due to people from Zone 2. *sigh* > > Why, hello, 1:138/142! 1:305/1 here!

Re: shell accounts [was RE: strangest systems I've sent email from]

On Thursday, April 21, 2016, Tony Aiuto <tony.ai...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:45 PM, John Willis <chocolatejolli...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > That's another thing I remember and miss from those days

Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

> > Yep. I miss that too. I used to run such an ISP in the 90's and we did > exactly as you say. We also ran a finger servers everywhere (and no, not > one with a bunch of security problems). People used to use that in cool > ways, too (bots, cool services, vending machine interfaces, etc..).

Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

> > > It wouldn't be until 1994 that the university allowed access to the > public > > internet directly through SLIP or PPP. > > My college was very restrictive that way, too. I figured out how to get > "slirp" working because there wasn't anyway to get a working PPP or SLIP > connection for me

Re: strangest systems I've sent email from

My first experiences with internet mail would have to qualify as the weirdest. My family gained access to the internet in 1988. We'd dial into the NMSU terminal server (my mother was a professor there) and connect from the terminal server to an S/390 running VM/ESA and do an IPL CMS to get to a

Re: 'motherboard' etymology

> > Computers existed way before 1980, and had many boards plugged into > wire-wrapped backplanes or motherboards.I'm guessing the terminology > was company-specific. IBM had their own name for EVERYTHING, for > instance. They did NOT use the term motherboard, as far as I know. The > SMS

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

Warp 3 requires a 386SX with 4MB at minimum. Connect will work with a 386 and 8 to 12MB RAM, depending on what LAN services you choose to run. Here is a link to an IBM Redbook on the subject, covering all of this in great detail. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg244552.pdf No version

Re: OpenVMS Alpha V7.3

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:53 AM, william degnan billdeg...@gmail.com wrote: related question - I was not able to make a bootable/readable image from the ISO I have 7.3, although it might have been a bad source. Is there a best way/ best software to make a usable 7.3 install CD that will work

Re: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750)

What control store does it have? I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Are you asking for the microcode revision? That would also apply to pretty much all VAXes. Probably referring to the L0005 CPU Control Store vs. L0008 Patchable Control Store. There's also a few types of L0008