[HECnet] Intro and New User Questions

[Dave McGuire]

  I don't see any reason why one couldn't throw a DEQNA or DELQA in a
MINC-11..

          -Dave

On 12/21/2017 01:45 AM, Mark Abene wrote:
> Correct, neither the MINC-11 nor MiniMINC had a network interface. I
> used to own a MiniMINC (PDT-11/150) years ago.
> It's serial only. The MINC, I believe, was just an 11/03 with serial
> ports, A/D and D/A, and GPIB (oh, and dual floppies).
> They were both meant for lab work and analyzing and graphing sampled
> data, and had no networking capability. Given that, I'm confused as to
> how any MINC documentation would mention DECnet and RSX11S, unless there
> was some later version of the system that I'm not aware of.
> 
> Regards,
> -Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com
> <mailto:healyzh at avanthar.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > On Dec 20, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Mark Matlock <mark at matlockfamily.com <mailto:mark at matlockfamily.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > All,
>     >    I have a question on DECnet for RT-11. Documentation that came with a MINC-11 says that RT-11 had a Phase III compatible DECnet. Does anyone out there happen to have a copy of it? It would be great to be able to connect my MINC-11 as an end-node and transfer files to my 11/83.
> 
>     I’ve been searching for a copy for nearly 20 years.  As I understand
>     it, it only supported serial lines, not ethernet.
> 
>     Zane
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA