It’s been a very long time since I partitioned an ES47/GS80 (would have been
whilst I worked for Compaq prior to the HP takeover) but ISTR that the reason
for the 2P rule was that you couldn’t partition the memory subsystems within a
dynamic duo. It’s been a long time and I no longer have access
> On 1 Feb 2022, at 09:42, cctalk@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> A somewhat broader search found the 1984 RT-11 System Release Notes with the
> following:
>
>
>
> 1.4.2.4 Logical Disk Subsetting Handler (LD) - The logical disk subsetting
> handler lets you define logical disks, which are subset
> On 22 Aug 2021, at 03:49, cctalk@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> Yes and no. There is the TA11 Magnetic Tape Cassette System, which used the
> TU60 Dual DECasette Transport (I need to create a page for that in the
> CHWiki), but it uses a special controller card, the TA11 Magnetic Tape
> Cassette c
> On 8 Aug 2019, at 15:18, Adam Thornton via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>
> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
> no passwords.
Just logged into TOPS-10 for the first time in many years! Far too much brain
bit rot but it will encou
> On 2 May 2019, at 07:47, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>
> The VAX 8600 and 8650 were the last VAX models to have PDP-11 compatibility
> mode, so if the purpose of VMS 4.0 was to support the 8600, I would expect
> it to still contain compatibility mode support. VMS versions at least as
> late
> On 29 Apr 2019, at 21:47, allison via cctech wrote:
>>
> You are limited to what the VAX-11/780 system had for peripherals and
> typically under 8MB ram (it maxed at 16mb).
I know later 780s (probably with an upgraded memory controller) supported 64MB
of memory.
I have used VMS 1.6 and st
Wow - a LOCI-2 - now that brings back some good memories - nearly 50 years
since I last used one :-(
> On 28 Mar 2019, at 08:56, Rick Bensene via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
> The Old Calculator Museum exhibit consisted of a Wang LOCI-2 and punched
> card readers (1st and 2nd-generation card readers)
> On 11 Sep 2018, at 18:23, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 21:02, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
>> p.s. The caveat is of course if you get something like the Gemini. That
>> looks like a very nice machine but at 599 British pounds I rather get a Sony
>> UX series and
I’m in Boston MA (technically Canton) for the next three weeks (April 29 to May
19). Looking for recommendations on classic computer/classic car/sailing things
of interest to do on the weekends.
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> On 28 Mar 2018, at 18:59, Paul Anderson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> There are probably no perfect answers to this problem. I am looking for
> opinions, not criticism. I do not want to start arguments, nor get anyone
> here, especially Jay, pissed off.
I too have a large stack of microfiche. The
> On 19 Nov 2017, at 10:57, Eric Christopherson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Basically, I'm looking for a certain book (although really any book in
> the same vein would satisfy), which was on computer system architecture,
> organization, etc.; it talked about the usual boolean logic, assembly
> pr
> On 21 Oct 2017, at 21:40, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I have a couple of hard disks I want to make dd copies of. I have Ultrix
> running on my DECstation 5000/240 with the disk I want to clone attached to
> it. The trouble is that I don't have enough disk space on the machine to
> cl
> On 16 Oct 2017, at 23:49, Bryan Everly via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I have a Dec Alphastation 500 that is missing the drive cover door
> (it's a piece of plastic about a foot long that covers the CDROM drive
> and the floppy drive) that is hinged. It's a minor nit (the machine
> itself works gre
> On 13 Oct 2017, at 18:15, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I also have at least one 4GB disk (RZ28 or RZ29? I can't remember) which
> works fine once it gets going but needs a tap or a quick twist to get
> it going when it is trying to spin up. Not too practical for installing
> in a m
> On 7 May 2017, at 06:21, Jerry Weiss via cctalk wrote:
>
> I stand corrected. It appears that the handwritten label has a ODS1 style
> numerical UIC.
>
> The printed directory may not actually be from the floppy media itself. It is
> hierarchical. So perhaps it is from some ODS2 media th
> On 5 May 2017, at 07:41, Terry Stewart via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> 4. How likely is it that disks from a 1985 VAX is in some weird proprietary
> format OTHER than VMS?
It has been a very long time since I had a VAX-11/780 to play with but as other
people have mentioned the format is much more l
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