[HECnet] Need disk space for some VAX work? KUHAVX/SIIRI might be useful..

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Mon Dec 17 07:34:25 PST 2012


I would be up for this. Maybe try to get a US based one and a EU based one.

I'm mostly interested as my free colo deal is likely going away. If it doesn't, I can get all that stuff running on wiggum.

-brian

On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
I'm up for helping out in any way needed.

This leads me to one thing I've been thinking about - we should maybe pool in to rent a VPS or even a dedicated server and set up a VPN service on it.

That way people who are behind dynamic IPs / weird NAT setups etc can VPN into the virtual LAN running on the VPS and connect via MULTINET / the bridge etc.

Just an idea.

Sampsa



On 17 Dec 2012, at 17:29, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Fred <fcoffey at misernet.net> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Peter Coghlan wrote:

It could get a lot uglier - I've had Hercules running on a VAX...

Now *that* I like.   :)

Hopefully not to drift too far OT but ...

I have a few instances of Hercules running on my main Linux machine, some
runinng, most are not - while I am amazed at the great strides folks both on
the OS side and Hercules have done, I'd actually like to **do** something
with them (similar to the "crazy" stuff I see being done with the various
DEC OSes by folks on the list).   If I could retire and had limitness time
I'm sure I could write something, but still ... Anyone on the HECNet list
doing anything interesting with VM/370, MVS 3.8J, MUSIC/SP or any other
legal-to-run OS on Hercules?

Fred


Hello!
Well yes I am Fred. Every time I get a few free minutes, I do bring up
Hercules running VM/370. But without that all important detail,
knowing how systems who ran that spoke to each other it is not much
fun.

However one fellow over on the other side of the pond is a bit more
familiar with the way things work says there is a way to do that, and
wants to create a hobbyist network of machines running VM/370 in the
same way everything is done in this group. In fact he's based in an
area not far from one of the larger hobbyist systems we have. Yes
Sampsa I mean your UK place.

I have the network bandwidth to make things work for me, here, on both
sides of the technology fence, but one big hangup, it is a dynamic
assigned DSL service, (ADSL) and as such it would be difficult but not
impossible.
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