[HECnet] ANF10 network --> DN200 (RJE, Decnet) --> should be Ddcmp --Re3

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Nov 19 16:27:33 PST 2021


On 11/19/21 11:32 AM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It might be worth looking at how Hercules encapsulates SDLC as that will
> do
> 
>    TOPS-10 had an IBM HASP communication FE product; I think it was called a
> DN60.  I used it long ago - you could submit card decks to JES2 under OS/VS2
> from files on the -10 and get the resulting print out back as another disk
> file on the -10.  Beats a keypunch and a line printer by miles...   It'd be
> kind of neat, although a total waste of time, to hook up a simh TOPS10 to a
> Hercules and try to get that working.

   The fact that it would be neat means, to me, that it's not a waste of 
time.

   Is that software around somewhere?  I'd love to try this with real 
iron at some point, at the museum.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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