Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer

2019-06-21 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
I still have a rainbow or two and a lot of extra parts. If anyone is interested, please contact me off list.\ Thanks, Paul On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:54 PM Warner Losh via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ray Jewhurst via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org

Re: VENIX on Rainbow (was Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer)

2019-06-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/20/19 7:56 AM, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: > Venix can run on the /23+ as well. > > Whether it's a good choice of OS (compared to, say, 2.9BSD) or not I don't > know. > I used Venix on 23s back in the day. It's V7, the file system is a little fragile and has all of the limita

Re: VENIX on Rainbow (was Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer)

2019-06-20 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:09 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:47 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk > wrote: > > > Interesting. I have VENIX on a Professional 350 (it was one of the > > > machines I had on display for VCF East). I haven't tried fid

Re: VENIX on Rainbow (was Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer)

2019-06-19 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:47 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > Interesting. I have VENIX on a Professional 350 (it was one of the > > machines I had on display for VCF East). I haven't tried fiddling > > with VENIX on a Rainbow, though I did know it existed. > > Venix/PRO on a 380 here. I

Re: VENIX on Rainbow (was Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer)

2019-06-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > ... I'm currently on a DEC > > Rainbow VENIX boondoggle trying too reconstruct frmo v7 and sys III sources > > now available the original Venix 86R source code... :) > > Interesting. I have VENIX on a Professional 350 (it was one of the > machines I had on display for VCF East). I haven't tr

Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer

2019-06-19 Thread allison via cctalk
On 06/19/2019 10:31 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Ray Jewhurst > > > I would really like to get my own classic computer but I don't know > > where to begin. > > Two questions you need to sort out in your mind, to decide, are i) do you > want something with a bit-mapped

Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer

2019-06-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ray Jewhurst > I would really like to get my own classic computer but I don't know > where to begin. Two questions you need to sort out in your mind, to decide, are i) do you want something with a bit-mapped video screen, or are you happy with ASCII serial line only, and ii) w

Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer

2019-06-19 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
those would work. So where do I look besides e-Bay? I see some available Post wanted ad on craigslist. Wait, then they will come to you. - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

VENIX on Rainbow (was Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer)

2019-06-18 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:53 PM Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ray Jewhurst via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > Hello all, I have been a student of computer history for years... > > I would like > > something more exotic. (Although it might me ne

Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer

2019-06-18 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ray Jewhurst via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hello all, I have been a student of computer history for years but have > only learned how to use classic machines vicariously through emulation. I > would really like to get my own classic computer but I do

Wanting to get my first classic computer

2019-06-18 Thread Ray Jewhurst via cctalk
Hello all, I have been a student of computer history for years but have only learned how to use classic machines vicariously through emulation. I would really like to get my own classic computer but I don't know where to begin. For one, I am on a very limited income and two I don't have a lot of