Re: [Simh] Networking help with 4.3 BSD Quasijarus running on SimH microvax

This may be an obvious question, but is your Mac connected via Wi-Fi? If so, you’re going to have problems using the default networking. I tried to do this several years ago, and never found a totally satisfactory solution. I figured it was worth checking, because if this doesn’t work nothing

Re: [Simh] So far unnamed project

Ray, I’m not of that older generation myself, but this project is something I’d definitely endorse. Part of the problem, I think, is that a lot of these operating systems aren’t as interesting without applications to layer on top. Figuring out what would be worth configuring is a task in

Re: [Simh] text from openvms

Hi Bill, Kermit is definitely robust enough to do what you want. You could always do the “type the file to your terminal and copy paste,” dance too. That would work for text files particularly. ON OS X at least there’s a way to save terminal output to a text file as well. I don’t know about

[Simh] HP 3000 Terminals

Hi All, So I’ve been messing with the HP3000 simulator lately, and have become curious about the advantages of using a real, or emulated, HP terminal with MPE. I was wondering if anybody knew of emulators for OS X or Linux, my preferred platforms. More to the point, is their anything an HP

Re: [Simh] Release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator

Hi, I’m looking forward to experimenting with this. Gaming-wise, Empire, one of the few really complex strategy games playable as a blind computer user, was produced for the HP3000. I don’t know enough about the system to tell if this was the OS in question, but I’d love to get a look at it

[Simh] Its Distribution tapes and Timekeeping

Hi All, I was wondering if there were copies of any ITS tapes, aside from Minsys, online anywhere? Reference is made to them in ai: kshack; build doc, but I can’t seem to find them. I can probably make dump tapes based on the AI filesystem archives easily enough, but wondered if anyone had

Re: [Simh] Klh10 vs Simh

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Timothe Litt wrote: > > I suppose this is as good an excuse as any to provide a bit of history. > Thanks. :) That’s definitely interesting history. I have KLH10 running on my Linux virtual machine. Tops-20 seems much more newbie-friendly than

[Simh] Klh10 vs Simh

Hi All, I’ve begun trying out Tops-20 on the KLH10 emulator, and also have an interest in ITS for the sheer novelty of the operating environment. I don’t know a lot about PDP10 CPU families, but was wondering how the two emulators compare. I gather DEC didn’t release newer versions of Tops-20

Re: [Simh] installing VMS 1.5

Well, I don’t really know what I ought to be doing about this one quite yet. I did mount the tape under VMS 7.3, after figuring out that the magtape device is msa0, not MUA0. It isn’t a file structured volume, however. Backup can’t seem to find any savesets, claiming it isn’t an ANSI tape. Any

Re: [Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

Hi, I’m trying to boot http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/vax/vms/BB-D782B-BE__VMS_V1.5_1600.zip, mostly for interest’s sake. I presume this is an installation tape of some sort. I’ve tried on the VaxSserver 3900 simulator, but always seem to get a “DevOffline,” message for Mua0:,

[Simh] Console floppy and VAX 780

I’ve been reading about the VAX 780 tonight, and kind of curious what I could get to run with it. I have what seems to be a tape of VMS 1.5 from Bitsavers, but it doesn’t seem straight-forward to boot. I’m wondering if anybody has managed to get this working. There’s supposedly a “Fload,”

[Simh] Tell me about console terminals and related things

Hi All, So as I delve into VMS and related concepts, I’ve come across mention of console terminals and “operator’s consoles.” I gather that SIMH simulates one of these when the machine starts up, but I’m a bit less clear on how this compares to the real hardware. When the VAX boots, it

Re: [Simh] vax simh and loading file

Bill, As far as I’m aware you’ll need to copy and paste into your terminal emulator of choice. This requires making some changes in sys$system:modparams.dat on the VMS side. I have min_TTY_TYPAHDSZ=2064 min_TTY_ALTYPAHD=2064 MIN_MAXBUF=12000 This will make it easier to copy and paste large

Re: [Simh] SIMH and physical hardware (Zachary Kline)

I didn’t realize the LCM was in Seattle. THat’s pretty close to me, I’ll have to try and get over there when I can rope in an interested sighted friend. Thanks for the insights and video links, all. I have to admit searching Youtube hadn’t occurred to me. Best, Zack. > On Feb 10, 2016, at 9:52

[Simh] SIMH and physical hardware

This is around 50% humorous, but it’s still a thing I’ve been thinking about lately. From a newbie’s perspective, all SIMH machines are very similar. The worst thing about emulation is that the “feel,” of the original hardware doesn’t seem to be there. Simh can emulate tons of hardware from

Re: [Simh] Panic while attempting to boot a NetBSD ISO

Hi, THe key is that it’s DUA one, not Dual. :) Best, Zack. > On Feb 5, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: > > Hello! > Okay here goes, I'm following these instructions: > https://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html > > And I'm getting this response: >

[Simh] OSs with accessible documentation

Hi All, So the recent RSTS/E discussion has got me wondering what OS’s I might be able to run under SIMH with readable documentation. As a totally blind enthusiast I can’t really use the Bitsavers collection without manually running OCR on the PDFs, a tedious and error-prone process. I’m aware

[Simh] VMS/VDE: Almost there

Hi All, I’m 98% of the way there with the bridged VDE setup mentioned in my earlier thread. I appreciate all the help from folks here, and wonder if anybody might have ideas for debugging some hiccups. My VAX gets an IP address from the router, but can’t seem to ping it, nor any other

Re: [Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

; > > "Right then! This won't be big on dignity!" - The Doctor > >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 19:21, Zachary Kline <zkl...@speedpost.net> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I was wondering if anybody could give me some tips on networking with my >> MacBook

[Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

Hi All, I was wondering if anybody could give me some tips on networking with my MacBook air. I used to run a virtual VMS system a few years back, but that was on Windows and/or Linux, with access to “real,” ethernet devices. I’ve since switched to the wifi-only Macbook Air, and it isn’t