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

[Cory Smelosky]

On 23 Oct 2012, at 18:23, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 10/23/2012 01:46 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Also, it's probably better I mention connecting here so all the crazy
solutions get mentioned. Dynamic IP, located in Ohio, US. I have
several spare UNIX systems to run a bridge on, and I would prefer to
get several systems connected (what area should I use? I'll get back
with node names   once I figure out how to change them in RSTS/E and
TOPS-20) I'm not very good with using emacs, maybe I should just
stick with a more basic editor. Or find a better terminal emulator   I
don't have any real DEC terminals or any real DEC hardware   yet.

Where in Ohio?   I'm in western PA, just a hair northeast of Pittsburgh.

Near Columbus.

Ahh ok, so 3-3.5hrs out.   Not too bad.

I can hook you up with some hardware.   I have, erm, a bit of a surplus
at the moment.

What do you have as surplus?

Good heavens, that's a loaded question. ;)

On-topic, if you're hurting for VAXen, I can free up a 4000-series machine.

Mmm, I think i'd do better here than finding a VAX on ebay, which 4000-series model in particular? Also do you happen to have drives for one? All I have spare are some 16G 5.25" SCA SCSI drives + adapters for fast SCSI.   Also, if you happen to have any adapters for MMJ as I don't have any real terminals, that'd be nice, too. 

Depending on which model, that'd be better than the VAXservers/VAXstations I've found.


Off toppic, and off the top of my head, probably   a dozen racks' worth of comparatively recent Sun hardware.   And Crays.   These would involve some serious swappage, though.

Have any pentium-era systems? I need something to run Slackware 4.0 on   for openlook. (You have no idea how hard it is to get this working in a VM   ).


                  -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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