[HECnet] Introducing myself... and my little network

[Gregg Levine]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Boyanich, Alastair
<Alastair.Boyanich at au.fujitsu.com> wrote:
@Sampsa:

There was wordperfect on VMS? Wow.

I used to use the shared version of it on SCO in the early 90's. I
didn't know there was a VMS version. That'd be interesting to see.

Al.

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] Introducing myself... and my little network

Speaking of old software, does anybody happen to have WordPerfect for
VMS
lying around?

Would love to play with that..

Sampsa

On 7 Jun 2012, at 11:48, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:

Al 07/06/12 12:11, En/na hvlems at zonnet.nl ha escrit:
Jordi,
You wrote that the NIC on the 4000-90 was broken. Did you try an
external
transceiver on the AUI connector (there's a switch on the back).
An Alllied Telesys or DEC transceiver might solve the issue. The
logic that
drives the BNC connector is on a separate module IIRC.

I didn't. Actually, I thought you needed a thickwire segment to use
a
transceiver and a drop cable. I should have researched it better. Any
idea of the
DEC name for that thinwire transceiver? (Or a compabtible one).
Anyways, I
think I canibalized that machine a little bit, so I'm not sure what is
actually
inside of the inclosure. It looks like a nice summer vacation project
:)

If you need software kits for the VAX, post your needs. If I have
the kit(s) I'll
burn them on a CD. Hans

Oh, thanks. As I said, I've plenty of "modern" stuff, but I miss
some of the
older software I used back in those days (pre-5.0), a (call it
nostalgia) I'm quite
trying to reproduce that first environment I worked on. Right now, I
miss:

- FMS
- TDMS
- VAX BASIC
- LSE

That's pretty all. I also used AI1 (the dreaded office package) but
I'm not sure
I'll want to fight that monster again ;). No need to burn a CD, we
could arrange
the transfer by network (HECnet or regular internet). I understand the
use of
that stuff is covered by the hobbyist license (not sure about TDMS
though), so
we would not do anything out of the law.






Hello!
I'm not Sampsa, he's busy at the moment.... But yes there was indeed a
version of WP for VMS. It was better supported for the VAX, then the
one for SCO. As it happens I found out about it when I participated in
a discussion with the fellow who sold it for SCO. Sadly the SCO one
dropped out of site when that company started to crater. Strangely
enough it happened well before the history of VMS started to get
interesting.

The VMS one was very popular at an agency I had, well an interest in.
However the secretaries all typed poorly using it and worse for the PC
release.....

But yes it was there.
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