[HECnet] Intro and New User Questions

[Dave McGuire]

  I'm sure it'd work.  I've put arbitrary Qbus boards in MINC-11 chassis
in the past.  Software support is...just software support. B-)

             -Dave

On 12/21/2017 03:32 PM, Mark Abene wrote:
> In the MINC-11 chassis, it'd probably work, but of course wouldn't be
> supported by the custom RT-11 nor MINC BASIC. :)
> The MiniMINC on the other hand has no such expansion capability.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com
> <mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>       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>
>     > <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
> 
> 
>     --
>     Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>     New Kensington, PA
> 
> 


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA