[HECnet] New system online

Thu Jul 7 15:37:36 PDT 2016

No problem, Johnny.

Left a note under the youtube video by Mark Wickens - it is possible he 
is also subscribed to this list.

Thanks.

On 7/7/2016 6:15 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I should clarify that I have pretty much all RSX DECUS entries. No VMS 
> around that I keep any track of, sorry.
>
>     Johnny
>
> On 2016-07-08 00:13, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> Ah silly me - I am looking for the DODGEM and LIGHTCYCLE games and
>> posted the following at comp.os.vms to no response, it looks like Johnny
>> or someone here may have these, and if so, may I? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Hi all - David Wilkinson's Dodgem is listed in the DECUS catalog for The
>> VAX Library Collection 2 Version: 1992/1993. However I cannot find the
>> BASIC source or an EXE (or am I blind?)
>>
>> Same for LIGHTCYCLE (i.e. cannot locate EXE or source).
>>
>> Anyone has any pointers? There are youtube videos of folks playing them
>> on good old VT220s ...
>>
>> http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vax000/catalog.94a
>> <http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vax000/catalog.94a>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> .
>> Supratim Sanyal
>> DECNET VMSMAIL: QCOCAL::SANYAL (via HECNET)
>> Internet email: http://mcaf.ee/sdlg9f
>> SANYALnet QCOCAL OpenVMS 7.3: telnet://sanyal.duckdns.org
>> <http://sanyal.duckdns.org/>
>> SunOS 5.11 / Solaris 11 OpenIndiana: ssh sanyal.duckdns.org
>> <http://sanyal.duckdns.org/>
>> SanyalCraft Minecraft Server: sanyal.duckdns.org:25565
>> <http://sanyal.duckdns.org:25565/>
>> NTP server: sanyalnet-ntp.freeddns.org
>> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsanyalnet-ntp.freeddns.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEoaNpekani8Wlx7BumVuBU4Iyj-w> 
>>
>> WBRi Radio Stream: banglaradio.homeip.net:8000
>> <http://banglaradio.homeip.net:8000/>
>> Anonymous FTP: sanyal.duckdns.org <http://sanyal.duckdns.org/>
>> HTTP wrapper for FTP: http://sanyal.duckdns.org:81
>> <http://sanyal.duckdns.org:81/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/7/2016 5:27 PM, Hans Vlems wrote:
>>> With difficulty I'd say :-)
>>> Hecnet members own a wide variety of hardware and tend to hang on to 
>>> spare parts and software kits as if their lives depend on them.
>>> If you have a specific question then it gets answered here‎, no 
>>> doubt. Software kits, whatever version of a product you need, are 
>>> generally easy to get here.
>>> Hans
>>>
>>> Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone.
>>>   Origineel bericht
>>> Van: Lex van Roon
>>> Verzonden: donderdag 7 juli 2016 21:33
>>> Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
>>> Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
>>> Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] New system online
>>>
>>> I was wondering about this myself as well, how do you actually find
>>> interesting things on HECnet without actively probing anything? The
>>> INFO.TXT does seem to be a good thing for this, and by looking at it, I
>>> need to start getting things into order :)
>>>
>>> gr, Lex
>>>
>>> On 07/07/2016 09:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>> I could certainly add various bits of information, but it might 
>>>> become a bit
>>>> unwieldy to manage that information locally.
>>>>
>>>> In the past there was the suggestion that people have an INFO.TXT 
>>>> in the
>>>> default account for DECnet. Any such file will be displayed by 
>>>> another page
>>>> I have on MIM.
>>>>
>>>> See for example http://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet?node=mim
>>>>
>>>> There have also been suggestions for standardizing the format of 
>>>> that file.
>>>> I don't think my example might be following any such standards, and 
>>>> I'm not
>>>> sure how important/useful that could be.
>>>>
>>>> But I think it's a better system for giving random information 
>>>> about nodes
>>>> than the nodename database, as there can be all kind of odd 
>>>> information you
>>>> can put there.
>>>>
>>>> Johnny
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-07-07 02:29, Mark Abene wrote:
>>>>> Speaking of which, I was wondering if maybe Johnny thinks it would be
>>>>> a good idea to add a column to the web-based node list which shows
>>>>> whether or not the particular system has a guest account, or offers
>>>>> user accounts? The question of which nodes are "open" comes up on the
>>>>> list now and again, and I don't remember there being any 
>>>>> authoritative
>>>>> list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Lex van Roon <r3boot at r3blog.nl> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After some effort, I got an PDP-11/93 (simh) online running 
>>>>>> RSX-11M+ 4.6
>>>>>> bl 87. It is reachable as ROJIN (1.542) and I've configured a guest
>>>>>> account on this box if anyone is interested in nosing around on this
>>>>>> sytem. Do note, I just have about 2 weeks of experience with rsx, 
>>>>>> so be
>>>>>> gentle with me :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lex van Roon
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> LRO-RIPE | 570DE0BE | 9BF5 922E AF87 8584 E9CA C3AD C508 39A9 
>>>>>> 570D E0BE
>>>> -- 
>>>> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
>>>> || on a psychedelic trip
>>>> email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
>>>> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Supratim Sanyal
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>
>

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