Re: VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread ben via cctalk
On 3/21/2020 6:40 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: Blimey, next you will be giving away the secret handshake! Why Not? The free decoder ring is still hidden in a box of Captain Crunch.

Re: VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
On 03/21/20 20:39, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: On 21/03/2020 21:43, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: The SYSTEM password is MANAGER. Just like the old days. Times were different then :-) Wasn't the FIELD account password SERVICE? I recall when a DEC FE came a day early and he was qu

Re: VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Blimey, next you will be giving away the secret handshake! On 21/03/2020 20:39, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: On 21/03/2020 21:43, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: The SYSTEM password is MANAGER. Just like the old days. Times were different then :-) Wasn't the FIELD account password SE

Re: VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 21/03/2020 21:43, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: The SYSTEM password is MANAGER. Just like the old days. Times were different then :-) Wasn't the FIELD account password SERVICE? Antonio -- Antonio Carlini anto...@acarlini.com

Re: VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 8:08 AM Supratim Sanyal via cctalk wrote: > John Dundas' distribution of VAX/VMS version 3.0 (April 1982) can now be > downloaded from my Dropbox. Cool. My first VMS was 3.4 or 3.5 on an 11/750, September 1984. Moving to 4.0 was a huge shift. > The SYSTEM password is MA

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-21 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > > Out of interest, what controllable power plugs (sockets?) are you using? > > > > Not a question for me, but for the record I have used a WTI remote site > > manager, essentially a combined power distribution and terminal server > > unit, for 5 years now. > > That's this product line, itn

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-21 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > Not a question for me, but for the record I have used a WTI remote site > > manager, essentially a combined power distribution and terminal server > > unit, for 5 years now. > > That's this product line, itn's it? > > https://www.wti.com/c-93-

Re: [HECnet] VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Hoffman Andy via cctalk
I have also installed v3.x, but have not packaged them. What I'm waiting for is a DECus utility which I can't remember the name of, which uses an AST to perform a command line recall. If any kind soul remembers this, and can point me to the source, I will start releasing the VMS stuff in the sa

Re: VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/21/20 8:08 AM, Supratim Sanyal via cctalk wrote: John Dundas' distribution of VAX/VMS version 3.0 (April 1982) can now be downloaded from my Dropbox. That was the version I started with!! Boy does that seem like a lifetime ago. bill

Re: SWTPC SuperClock II board

2020-03-21 Thread Doug Jackson via cctalk
That's a beautiful board. While I have no docs, a careful look confirms for me that it would superimpose something (likely clock data) on a video signal. The horizontal and vertical counters, mux and Rom give that away. I love the layout. Absoloutly done in the days of tape ar 2 or 4 times.

Re: [HECnet] VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread William Pechter via cctalk
This brings me back to the days on the installation team in February 1982. I was installing 2.0 and 2.2. I seem to remember VMS 3.5 supporting the 86xx systems. Anyone have docs? Sent from pech...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Ray Jewhurst To: hec...@update.uu.se Cc: "General

RE: [HECnet] VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
According to the Release Notes it works on the 11/750 and 11/730 as well. See: AA-D015D-TE https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decvaxvms3leaseNotesV3.0May82_5458871/mode/2up -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ray Jewhurst via cctalk Sent:

Re: [HECnet] VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Ray Jewhurst via cctalk
>From 1982 I see. I know that this will run on the 780/785 but what about the other VAX-11s or the 8600? I am purely a simulator and have never used the real thing and I am not sure what years the models in question were released. Sorry if my questions seem ignorant. Ray On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, 8:0

VAX/VMS 3.0 Distribution Available for Download

2020-03-21 Thread Supratim Sanyal via cctalk
John Dundas' distribution of VAX/VMS version 3.0 (April 1982) can now be downloaded from my Dropbox. The SYSTEM password is MANAGER. Note: Dropbox does not force you to create an account, if you look carefully you will see a "Continue to view" link at the bottom of that pop-up. Here's what

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw via cctalk
On Sat, 2020-03-21 00:21:16 +, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Rob Jarratt wrote: > > > > Actually, I'm searching (more active than ever) for a proper location to > > > put all > > > of my hardware to. I already have shelves, controllable power plugs, and > > > just > > > t

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

2020-03-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw via cctalk
On Fri, 2020-03-20 22:58:35 -, Rob Jarratt wrote: > > Actually, I'm searching (more active than ever) for a proper location to > > put all > > of my hardware to. I already have shelves, controllable power plugs, and > > just > > today an EPROM reader/writer arrived. Though I'm unsure (to us