[HECnet] DECnet on 4.3BSD/TOPS-20 and other questions

[Dave McGuire]

On 10/23/2012 08:37 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I might be able to find a Qbus SCSI host adapter, but I those seem to
run quite a bit on ebay, but I have other resources (that don't seem
to have anything DEC   )

  They are expensive, but they're well worth having if you can scrape
together the bucks.

I think it'd be cheaper for me to find some DSSI drives. (Or add a
DSSI <-----> SCSI adapter in to the mix   )

  Well, trouble is, they're drying up fast.

Think I could make a VAX work with iSCSI? ;)

  That's an idea!

Would be easier on a weekend due to my eyesight making me unable to
drive, so i'd need someone to drive me there. Although I have a few
friends a little ways from Pittsburgh who might be able to help in
some way. Me getting there directly is a bit challenging, both due to
my eyesight and possibly being the youngest here ;).

  Understood.   I generally don't differentiate much between weekdays and
weekends, so either is fine for me.

(You have no idea how hard it is to get this working in a VM   ).

Oh yes I do. ;) I virtualized a gaggle of SCO OpenServer machines
for a customer about two years ago, using VMware.   Oh man that was
a mess...VMware was the only virtualization platform that would
work, and even that took some doing.   They're all still running,
though, but now on VERY different hardware. :-)

At least it's not Hyper-V   I couldn't get anything to run in
Hyper-V   save for windows. And not even NT 4!

  Eeeeeek!

                      -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA