Re: 8" Floppy Drives needed

2022-01-13 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Mike Katz wrote: Please let me know the cost and I will be happy to paypal it to you. Okay, I will dig it up and find a box and get back to you on Monday. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada

Re: 8" Floppy Drives needed

2022-01-12 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
I have, as far as I recall, a 8" single sided full height Shugart drive here that I swapped out of my Trash 80 Model II for a pair of half height DSDD drives many many years ago. I can send it to you for the cost of postage if it is of use to you. -- Richard Loken V

Re: how to make use of daisy wheel printer

2021-05-29 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
replaced the 1750 with a Deskjet 500 that I also fished out of the trash at work and ran for ten years without any major repairs but I had retired the TRS80 by the time I got the DeskJet 500 so I never tried to make it work with WordStar. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath

Re: DEC h8575-A Yours for Postage

2021-03-28 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
The H8575s have found a new home. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

DEC h8575-A Yours for Postage

2021-03-27 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
, Alberta? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

VAXstation 3100

2021-02-03 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
if I look around for half an hour. I have no idea where you are but I can send it to you for the price of shipping which would be astronomical I expect. I hesitate to ship the monitor - that would be had work - but the other components can be managed. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: &quo

DEC Alphaserver 4100 CPU fans

2020-06-09 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-07 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
and I paid honest money for them but I doubt I can afford the price of a VMS license. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
meet in the middle, have a beer together, and trade trailers. :) -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, ben via cctalk wrote: Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11. Ben. I once had a pDp11/04 which I let go, it did not seem like much at the time but now I feel differantly. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Al

Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
the rest of it into scrap metal. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Margaret Hamilton Guardian interview.

2019-07-13 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
Lyndon, I have never heard of her before and had no idea. I am frequently amazed when I discover just how much you know... Or how much spare time to surf the web for obsure stuff... Either way you earn my respect. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we

Re: George Comstock

2019-03-27 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
I've seen that cat before but we printed them on a line printer since the company did not like us using the high quality Diablo for such nonsense. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"

Re: Only never in Canada - dumb terminals

2019-03-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019, Tony Duell wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:42 PM Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: I'm not in Canada but I have a Volker-Craig VC414 (APL version) _with the service manual_. This is a poor copy (obtained from VC -- and they forgot to copy half of one of the schematics so

Re: Only never in Canada - dumb terminals

2019-03-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Mike Kenzie via cctalk wrote: I have a several in Ottawa as well. A few different brands, ASR, Dec, VC Do you have any Volker-Craig user or service documentation? Docs from Canadian companies seem to disappear in a puff of green smoke. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV

Re: Only never in Canada - dumb terminals

2019-03-23 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
them soon if you come get them yourself. You can get them later if you wait for me to bring them to you. Volker-Craigs were built out of TTL in Waterloo, Ontario between 1980 and 1985 and they do RS-232. I probably have the service manual if I look hard. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: &quo

Re: 1983 UBC PDP-11 Unix tools distribution

2019-03-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
earlier the last surviving L-1011 (or was it a DC10?) flight simulator was in Vancouver and it was controlled by a VAX-11/7?? long after VAXen had fallen out of fashion. PDP11 boxes and VAXen show up in some really obscure places. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2019-01-25 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: I also know I think other have their dibs in first.  But if they wash out... Thanks John, I will keep you in mind. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2019-01-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
away the weekend of February 8 and would have to get somebody else meet you and help you load. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2019-01-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
all or part of the collection. I will consider shipping if that is what it comes down to but the packing and transprotation will be expensive for the DS15 and extremely expensive for the other units. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Atha

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2018-12-18 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
that the DS20 mother boards had hardware on them such as USB controllers and maybe SCSI controllers that were not supported by either OS. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
seriously don't care what happens to their data or their disks. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Lots of unused CompacTape IV Cartridges Available

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Kevin McQuiggin wrote: I have a couple of compatible drives that I use on my Microvaxes, if you could spare say 6 then that?d be great. I live in Vancouver and of course would pay shipping! Good! Six down, 114 to go! I will get six for you. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 12/17/2018 04:02 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server, and the associated fibre switches in need of a new home. Where are the servers located? Are they in Athabasca

Lots of unused CompacTape IV Cartridges Available

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
a lifetime of spare cartridges already. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
depending on the whim of the present owner. Lots of paper docs and Tru64 OS installation kits but no licenses. They can be had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta C

Re: Desktop Metaphor

2018-10-23 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
FreeBSD runs out of the box because I immediately delete it and install Motif. FreeBSD may not have the installed base of Linux but it has a its fans. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"

Re: AlphaServers

2018-03-12 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
need no stinkin' intel around here. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: DEC Storageworks

2018-02-04 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
- I have done that too. DEC and Compaq also sold DLTs in a StorageWorks module those can also be taken apart and the drive replaced but they are harder to get apart and you must pay attention if you hope to get it reassembled properly. Doug -- Richard Loken VE6BSV

Re: Looking for a home

2018-02-04 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: One of the Suns is a Sun1 pre-production Perhaps a pre-production Sparc? I had a long personal relationship with a Sun-1 and nothing there looks remotely like a Sun-1. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuqu

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

2018-01-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
the deck and shuffled his deck well before returning his ID card to the top and resubmitting it. I never heard a thing about that episode but I sometimes wonder what his next output looked like. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta C

Re: C64's still managing building systems

2017-12-03 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
it should be called the Icarus Project rather than the Pheonix Project since Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell to his death in compoarison to the Pheonix who dies in flames and rises from his own ashes. I don't see much hope of this Pheonix rising any time soon. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2017-10-23 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
using a font that supports UTF-8... And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8? And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I didn't have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuqu

Re: DecWindows on remote display

2017-07-26 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
be Netscape 3?. But remember!! It is spelled Netscape but it is pronounced Mozilla! :) I still have that 3100. I wonder if the disk will spin up? I took out the battery on general principle, it is sitting up here beside me with nary a leak, it has been lying there for years... -- Richard Loken VE6BSV

DEC LK201 Keyboards for VT220 terminals etc.

2017-06-29 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
It seems to me that somebody recently was looking for an LK201 style keyboard with the RJ style connector. If somebody is indeed looking for such a keyboard then send me an email, I came across a couple today that I may be able to aquire. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...under

RE: dd-equivalent for VMS

2017-06-17 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
eliminate fragmentation, that would not be possible with a raw block by block copy. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!

2017-05-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
m. I will have to dig it out some time... -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!

2017-05-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
an electrical outlet, and reseated the memory modules but all that is behind me now. It is using lots of electricity and making lots of noise while displaying a Motif session in a 19" liquid crystal monitor without a stand... What could be better than this? -- Richard Loken V

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
. This is work worth doing IMHO. I also have a long neglected plan to port the heirloom troff/nroff code over to VMS just because I am too lazy to switch to Digital Standard Runoff. No matter what the platform, of all the image viewers/editors out there, XV is the viewer I love the best!! -- Richard

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work. I have already learned that in only four months. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
and there are a bunch of patches to get some more recent formats running on it but I could not resolve all the dependancies when I last tried to compile them in. I am now retired so maybe I will find the time to get all that software glued together. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...under

RE: Model 28 Teletypes in Edmonton, Alberta

2017-03-29 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Model 28 Teletypes in Edmonton, Alberta

2017-03-29 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
tty and within travelling distance of Edmonton, Alberta reads this, those items are reported to be there for taking. Oh, and bring a truck and a very strong friend. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-24 Thread Richard Loken
, and waiting a Micro$oft minute for things to happen that used to be immediate. And you are right, Micro$ofts loves SPFs but they do nothing at all to expedite our mail through their servers. And in honour of Micro$oft, SPFs, and my 21st century managers, I am retiring in 29 days. -- Richard Loken

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-23 Thread Richard Loken
am my employer's email administrator and I know that I was not doing anything special to make the email go through - no spf records, no nothing. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-21 Thread Richard Loken
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Cameron Kaiser wrote: There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either, but it runs very well. What is an Alpha Micro? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca Unive

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Loken
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote: There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a little back in the day. I don't think I had the sources, just a .EXE, so that may not work so well for Alpha. Now THAT is interesting! I wonder where it went to? -- Richard

Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Loken
, took the 'g' off "gcc" in the makefile, used sed to change ncurses to curses where ever it could be found and compiled it. AND IT WORKS SWELL! Rogue is as addictive today as it was in 1982 on the VAX-11/780 running 4.2bsd. I think I will port it to OpenVMS and run it on my AS4100. --

The original Sun-1 workstation one more time

2016-11-09 Thread Richard Loken
? Sure isn't one here. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...

more on lisp compilers

2016-11-09 Thread Richard Loken
5.5-1 stuff, there seems to be an entire distro there plus a lot of layered products. These are reduntant, my employer's last VAX is now sleeping in my basement. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : t

Re: DEC DS10L Fix CPUFan!

2016-10-30 Thread Richard Loken
in that proved impossible for me to find. It changes from model to model and generation to generation. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta C

Re: LA36, LA120 prints

2016-10-15 Thread Richard Loken
proms which I do not have.) I have until January 1 to find homes for a lot of this stuff before it stops being available to me and starts to be destroyed. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuqu

Re: Manuaal for the original Sun Workstation

2016-10-14 Thread Richard Loken
at I dealt with had a CDC Lark cartridge unit and I still have some of the old Lark cartridges and no possible way to read them. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca,

Re: DECwriter II and Decwriter III engineering drawings

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Loken
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, John H. Reinhardt wrote: On 10/12/2016 9:30 PM, Richard Loken wrote: And five requests for these manuals. Is someone going to scan them? Have they been scanned already? I guess I should look :-P I too would like to know if these manuals have been scanned already

Re: Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Loken
The offer of DPC manuals led to many happy reminscenses but only one request for the manuals (with a promise to scan them). Are there scans of these manuals available on-line? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca Unive

Re: DECwriter II and Decwriter III engineering drawings

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Loken
And five requests for these manuals. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...

Re: Manuaal for the original Sun Workstation

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Loken
I received seven requests for the Sun Workstation manual. I guess I will draw a name from a hat or something... -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta C

Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-11 Thread Richard Loken
principles of operation Yours for the postage but I doubt anybody wants them. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are

DECwriter II and Decwriter III engineering drawings

2016-10-11 Thread Richard Loken
I have fallen a across a bound set of LA36 and LA120 engineering drawings. Anybody want them for the cost of mailing them? Remember the good old days when you not only got a printer but detailed service information including a big set of engineering drawings? Sigh. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV

Manuaal for the original Sun Workstation

2016-10-11 Thread Richard Loken
? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anyone can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** t...@athabascau.ca **: - Lyn

DEC 3000 Model 400 Alpha Workstation

2016-09-21 Thread Richard Loken
of documentation and (good grief!) the original mouse. Anybody want any DEC 3000 parts? Or a couple of ES45 CPU cards? I have two those also. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Atha

Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

2016-09-12 Thread Richard Loken
Mark, I strongly support the addition of Oscar to your Mac Pro. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!"

Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

2016-09-12 Thread Richard Loken
upon the recommendation of my long time friend G.L.Nerenberg II. And it says underneath "WASD Model: V2 Type: Cherry MX Green". It is gloriously noisy! I have an aluminum Apple keyboard in the box this keyboard came out of, those Apple chicklet keyboard are just plain horrible. -- Richard Loken

Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

2016-09-12 Thread Richard Loken
looks like a very elegant $3,000.00 can of tomato juice. Not much changes. Meanwhile, I am on my second mac Mini (third if you count my wife's) because i really like the mac mini so I probably would have bought the cube if I had been in the market for a mac at that time. -- Richard Loken

Re: VAX file format conversion

2016-08-15 Thread Richard Loken
in the crudest manner possible. Namely this: /* Name:clean_cp.c * Purpose: copy an rms file and ignore record length * Author: Richard Loken * Date:17-Dec-1986 * Modified:30-Sep-1987 - RLL Throw out any \r's that may be in the file. * 07-Oct-1987

Re: VAX file format conversion

2016-08-14 Thread Richard Loken
foo.new sigh. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :

Tek 4025 and 4017 Terminal option 31 kit to give away

2016-08-02 Thread Richard Loken
(from a 4025?) labelled ERASE. Anybody want it for the postage? It should be fairly cheap to mail. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta C

Re: VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes)

2016-07-16 Thread Richard Loken
if you skip steps. "System unstable, save often." -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are na

Re: VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes)

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Loken
-1996 00:33:26 DISK$UCX_BUILD2:[UCX.X42.BL21.SRC.NET]INET_USE */ /** *****/ -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath tho

Re: Grey Wall (VMS) available

2016-06-24 Thread Richard Loken
a couple of the Version 5 paperback books that can send you, one is a user's manual and the other AFAIR system manager's manual. I am slowly emptying my office at work so they could move to your office. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca Unive

Re: Wanted: Ann Arbor Ambassador terminal

2016-06-24 Thread Richard Loken
; and I am not about to open a can of worms by plugging it in. There were slight variations over the time they were on the market (firmware versions?). I don't remember whether this is an early or later model. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athab

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
, Ronnie) nuking the 3B4K that night? Campbell might be in there, too. I lost my (re-)collection ages ago :-( I remember those pictures but they seem to be lost (maybe AT had them seized and burned). I have never seen a machine more gleefully dismembered then the 3B4000. -- Richard Loken

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
colons, logical names, symbols, and so forth. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
out noise and heat beside my desk but the linux box has become my main computer. I will probably take the 4100 home when I retire on December 31 so it can warm up my basement. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca Unive

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Loken
must look at how you have configured the Multinet email server, if you want to forward to a decnet only machine or to All-in-One (rather than a VAXmail user) then you will need to create some rewrite rules but Multinet should deliver to a local VMS mailbox without clever manipulation. -- Richard L

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

2016-02-21 Thread Richard Loken
very true on VMS (my favourite OS is a pig). My buddy Ross measures speed by how long it take to build world on FreeBSD but I haven't built the world on FreeBSD in over five years so I don't care how long it takes. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath

Re: Vaxstation 3100 - I have console access

2016-02-20 Thread Richard Loken
worked mostly with large VAXen: the VAX 8600, 8650, 8820, 4000 model 300, and 4000 model 505A as well as two little VAXstations: the 2000 and the 3100 and none of them had a floppy drive. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca Unive

Re: Vaxstation 3100 - I have console access

2016-02-20 Thread Richard Loken
CDrom drive, and the monochrome monitor. I can open it up and provide you with information if you tell me what you are looking for. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Atha

Re: The PDP11/04 has landed..

2016-02-07 Thread Richard Loken
immediately lifted and rolled up. I never finished the first board and I never started the second board. Up until then I thought I knew how to solder. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear

Mosaic 4.0 for openVMS

2016-02-06 Thread Richard Loken
nt subject. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: Mosaic 4.0 for openVMS

2016-02-06 Thread Richard Loken
) in 2016? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

Re: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-01 Thread Richard Loken
. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!" ** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black

RE: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?

2015-12-12 Thread Richard Loken
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote: > Well, I have the exception that proves the rule. My H7864 PSU (from an > rtVAX 1000, same PSU as MicroVAX II) had a switching transistor and > resistor fail, no cap failures Well, I did admit I was exagerrating. :) -- Richard Lok

Re: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?

2015-12-11 Thread Richard Loken
head involve teeth and I can safely make a similar exageration: All electronic failures involve capacitors And this becomes (most repulsively) even more true when switch mode power supplies are involved. Keeping that in mind will usually help with diagnosis. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV,

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Richard Loken
l have to look into that. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** richar...@adm

Re: Model 28 Teletype on ebay

2015-10-23 Thread Richard Loken
machine I want to use to talk to a pdp8 or what have you. If you want a bullet proof teletype console that weighs as much as you do, go find a model 37. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but yo

Re: Is tape dead?

2015-09-15 Thread Richard Loken
} That is hardly the language for this kind of statistic. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the tit

Re: Is tape dead?

2015-09-15 Thread Richard Loken
3.0Tbyte compressed!!! Oh fuddle duddle1 I am going to have to send my brain back to the factory for refurbishing! How can I repeatedly drop a decimal place and never notice? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athaba

Re: Is tape dead?

2015-09-15 Thread Richard Loken
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 et...@757.org wrote: > 30Tbyte compressed* > (100Gbyte uncompressed) Well in this case they claim 15Tbyte uncompressed but 100Gbyte uncompressed is still a lot more than a DLT-IV will hold. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can

Re: Is tape dead?

2015-09-15 Thread Richard Loken
tive overhead is just as significant as the endless time spent searching for errors and typos or the time consumed discovering how to do something new and completely differant. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University

Re: Is tape dead?

2015-09-14 Thread Richard Loken
home. As for cartidges, I am overwelmed with media - including three unopened cartons of NIB DLT-IV cartridges. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Albe

Re: First Computer Store

2015-07-24 Thread Richard Loken
dabble in electronics in my spare time. Five years later I working in computing instead of broadcasting and everthing started to change. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn

Re: First Computer Store

2015-07-24 Thread Richard Loken
recall, the prof who sold it to me had paid about $10,000.00 for it around 1978. It was still pretty hard to lift without help. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca

Re: AlphaServer 4100 CPU fan

2015-07-20 Thread Richard Loken
obtainable. Why not rebuild them? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy' ** richar...@admin.athabascau.ca

Re: OpenVMS Alpha V7.3

2015-07-17 Thread Richard Loken
you if you cannot find an ISO. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy' ** richar...@admin.athabascau.ca

Re: How many use old browsers (e.g. = Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?

2015-07-03 Thread Richard Loken
not see the point of a VMS website that could not be used with a current VMS browser. My only desktop at the time ran VMS (it was the only surviving VMS workstation) so I would strike an Xterm session to some Unix box and run the browser over there. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator

Re: Tru64 LSM

2015-06-22 Thread Richard Loken
695580857% /usr/local As with you, it has been a long time since I looked closely at any of this. I didn't understand the difference until I started looking at the configuration when I went to answer your question. We haven't used the LSM in years. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix

RE: Tru64 LSM

2015-06-22 Thread Richard Loken
from the disks? See attached. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : Anybody can be a father Athabasca University: but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy' ** richar...@admin.athabascau.ca

Re: AlphaServers?

2015-06-19 Thread Richard Loken
have been worth their while to finish this migration years ago. I will get my pick of them as they are shut off so I might put OpenVMS one of them, maybe I will even use it to replace my AS4100 which was the box that the ES45 replaced some 15 years ago. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System

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