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

[Boyanich, Alastair]

@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.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 8:50 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
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.