[HECnet] TOPS-20 DECnet

[Joe Ferraro]

Thanks for the responses... 

There is no decnet connectivity to the TOPS 20 host...

The TOPS-20 host is presently available via IP - 74.143.35.91:1023. In any case, my knowledge of TOPS-20 is slowly growing ex nihilo ... I loaded the tapes from bitsaver.org and believe that I am running the correct monitor... (unfortunately, the docs that I've found don't always correspond to the version of software I've chosen to run).

I'm sure there may be a newer DECnet tape out there; however, the latest I could find (at the time) was v4, I believe... in any case, one of my biggest issues is hardware knowledge -- running `netgen` does not seemingly inquire about the [equivalent] NIC...

$netgen                                   
TOPS-20 Network Configurator for DN20, Version 4A(11)

[Type START to begin configuration dialog]

NETGEN>start
Node name:   tx0
Node address:   20.3
?Not confirmed: ""                        
Node address:   2

Transmit password:   <blah>
What DTE port number is used for this DN20:   0
?Value is out of range: "0"
What DTE port number is used for this DN20:   1

The total number of DMC11s and DMR11s must not exceed 6
How many DMC11 lines are on this DN20:   1
DMC-0 Cost: 1

How many DMR11 lines are on this DN20:   

How many KDPs are on this DN20:   

[Configuration Saved On:   PS:<DECNET>TX0.CNF.1]
[Generating PS:<DECNET>NMLACC.MAC.1]   [OK]
[Generating PS:<DECNET>CETAB.MAC.1]   [OK]
[Generating PS:<DECNET>NETPAR.MAC.1]   [OK]

[Configuration complete]
  Type SAVE and FINISH after any additional changes
  Type EXIT to terminate NETGEN


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
Joe,
Could you explain how the TOPS-20 system is connected to your network?
Your mail indicates the ability to do a SET HOST from WOPR to TOPS20, is that right?
If so then there is DECnet connectivity between WOPR and TOPS20.
or am I missing something?
Hans
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Verzonden: 10 januari 2012 03:49

I'll echo the sentiment of not wanting to sound like an AOL user.... With all of the recent, invigorating HECnet discussion, I am curious if anyone has a decent [approachable] resource for getting a TOPS-20 instance on the [HEC] net. I have a non-panda instance up (ARPAnet), and have a version of DECnet [apparently] installed, but no dice with HECnet connectivity. Worse case I guess I may use a captive account of sorts to gateway from WOPR:: to the 20x node via telnet.... but that just seems wrong in principle... Joe