DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-18 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  DECnet for Pro350/380 was donated to DECUS, available as  DECUS package PRO175. A quick Goog found the floppy disk images for it at http://www.os2site.com/sw/DEC/pro/pro175/index.html. If that site doesn't work out, or you don't like them in LHARC format, let me know - I have them as norma

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 8:53 PM Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > There are two comms option cards: the DECNA Ethernet, and the 3CA quad UART > (a very obscure device). Yeah... I have neither of those, but at least I've seen a picture of a DECNA. > The other limitation is the software. DEC only

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
I have a DECNet for Rainbow MS DOS software. On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:56 PM Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: > > Thanks for the info. and John!! > bb > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 4:13 PM Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > > > > > On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk > > > wrote: > > > > > >

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
Thanks for the info. and John!! bb On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 4:13 PM Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was > > for an end node and not a routing or other capability for

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 17, 2021, at 8:14 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > Maybe I am misunderstanding, but why would the pro be anything but more > decnet-able? > > Bill I'm not sure what you mean. A Pro is a PDP-11 so it could do many DECnet things, especially the Pro 380 since it has mo

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Mon, May 17, 2021, 4:58 PM John Forecast via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk > wrote: > > > > My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was > > for an end node and not a routing or other capability for the >

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk > wrote: > > My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was > for an end node and not a routing or other capability for the > 380/350/325 boxes. That's how I remember it as well. I think the DEC notion was that a Pro

Re: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread John Forecast via cctalk
> On May 17, 2021, at 2:43 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk > wrote: > > My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was > for an end node and not a routing or other capability for the > 380/350/325 boxes. > While that memory might be incorrect, are there any DecNet packages > for

RE: DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
I am trying to repair my real Pro 350, although I am not having much luck so far. Regards Rob > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Bob Smith via > cctalk > Sent: 17 May 2021 19:43 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: DECNe

DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-17 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
My recollection of Decnet for Pro boxes is that the available SW was for an end node and not a routing or other capability for the 380/350/325 boxes. While that memory might be incorrect, are there any DecNet packages for the Pro family available anywhere? a few hours of searching did not turn up a