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Re: Installing an OS on my little friendly VAX-11.

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> wrote: > I'd recommend you look into the Quasijarus project at > http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/ > > and join their mailing list by sending a request to Michael Sokolov: > msokolov(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG Thanks, Warren, for helping me out with awareness-raising! I have to disappoint Jeff a little bit, though, that 4.3BSD-Quasijarus support for BabyVAXen is still a while away, but trust me, we will get there some day! But my project pages and mailing list are definitely a tremendous resource. -- Michael Sokolov Harhan Engineering Laboratory Public Service Agent International Free Computing Task Force International Engineering and Science Task Force 615 N GOOD LATIMER EXPY STE #4 DALLAS TX 75204-5852 USA Phone: +1-214-824-7693 (Harhan Eng Lab office) E-mail: msokolov(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG (ARPA TCP/SMTP) (UUCP coming soon) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA36284 for pups-liszt; Thu, 25 May 2000 18:45:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au)

25 years, 1 month

Re: Installing an OS on my little friendly VAX-11.

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Jeff Johnson <jeff+pups(a)websitefactory.net> wrote: > I've got a VAXstation 2000 with 12MB of RAM, and two RD54 drives, > one of which is developing bad sectors (the secondary). I've got the > eight bitplane graphics card and no terminal available. Two RD54s? At least one of them must be external then, as there's only room for one full-height device in the VS2K box itself. I'm going to assume that you have the standard DEC configuration with one RD54 internal and an expansion adapter (pizza box) at the bottom with the 2nd external RD54 connected to it. Hey, except for the lack of TK50Z, you've got pretty much the maximum configuration from DEC for VS2K: maximum memory, maximum number of disks of top-of-the-line type, expansion adapter, and top-of-the-line graphics card! On your expansion adapter, right next to the connector for the external RD54, you should see a 50-lead Amphenol (aka Centronics) SCSI connector. It is indeed real SCSI, but the boot ROM, VMS, and Ultrix only support one SCSI device on it, the TK50Z. > I also don't have a TK50 or any external storage, Note that if you can get hold of a TK50Z (a box just like your external RD54, but with a TK50 drive and a TK50-to-SCSI adapter inside), you can readily plug it into the connector I just described. I don't think a TK50Z would be that expensive. Here in Dallas, TX, USA I get bare TK50 drives for $75 apiece and TK50 drive + TQK50 controller (for Q-bus) pairs for $100 apiece, and I don't think a TK50Z would be much more expensive. > so it looks like I'll be netbooting. Sorry, can't help you with that, I and netbooting have never been able to successfully coexist in the same machine room at the same time. > The machine currently has OpenVMS 7.2 on it which I can re-license and get > running if it would help for an install. If you have VMS running on one disk, you can use it to install Ultrix on the other. Talk to me directly for the instructions. -- Michael Sokolov Harhan Engineering Laboratory Public Service Agent International Free Computing Task Force International Engineering and Science Task Force 615 N GOOD LATIMER EXPY STE #4 DALLAS TX 75204-5852 USA Phone: +1-214-824-7693 (Harhan Eng Lab office) E-mail: msokolov(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG (ARPA TCP/SMTP) (UUCP coming soon) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA97968 for pups-liszt; Thu, 25 May 2000 13:46:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au)

25 years, 1 month

Installing an OS on my little friendly VAX-11.

by Jeff Johnson

Hey guys. I've got a VAXstation 2000 with 12MB of RAM, and two RD54 drives, one of which is developing bad sectors (the secondary). I've got the eight bitplane graphics card and no terminal available. I'd really love to get a copy of Ultrix 4.2 installed on this machine, but from what I can tell it isn't available. I also don't have a TK50 or any external storage, so it looks like I'll be netbooting. The machine currently has OpenVMS 7.2 on it which I can re-license and get running if it would help for an install. I've had almost no success with NetBSD either. The only kernel that would boot was a 1.3 snapshot release. All of the 1.4 kernels crap out immediately upon booting, and nobodys seems to be able to help me. Also, if anyone has a source for additional expansion for this machine, I'd be grateful. Thanks very much for your time. I really want to get this machine up and running again. -- Jeffrey H. Johnson - jeff(a)websitefactory.net - System Administration - TrN Barnet Worldwide Enterprises - The Website Factory - www.websitefactory.net

25 years, 1 month

ACMS, Questions on Internet History. (fwd)

by Dave Horsfall

Perhaps some of the learned people on this list can help this chappie out? The ACMS is the Australian Computer Museum Society, and could in turn be a valuable resource for this list; note that he signs himself as a "PDP-11 Support Consultant"... Replies to him, please, unless deemed of interest to the list. -- Dave Horsfall VK2KFU dave(a)geac.com.au Ph: +61 2 9978-7493 Fx: +61 2 9978-7422 Geac Computers P/L (FGH Division) 2/57 Christie St, St Leonards 2065, Australia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:53:26 From: John G E R E M I N <megajohn(a)sneaker.net.au> To: ACS NSW List <acsnsw-l(a)onelist.com> Subject: ACMS, Questions on Internet History. Greetings All, (from a Netscape v3, Eudora and Win-3.11 system), The ACMS has been asked about the History Of The Internet In Australia. This assumes that the 'Internet' is defined as using IP protocols, and the World-Wide-Web that provided permanent (or semi-permanent) connections between major nodes and the end-users. We also know that DEC had world-wide DECNET for its corporate use. We know that U**X systems had FTP, TELNET etc available on systems using fixed line connections (eg within Unis, etc). We know about the ArpaNet origins (we hope) We know? that the first Internet users here were the CSIRO and Unis. But were they connected initially to the overseas Internet ? So some questions, designed to sort out some confusions. First hand experiences would be good as would pointers to documentation. Note - all these relate to Australia (but answers may include info relating to overseas contexts). a1 First use of Fido-Net or other BBS using Dial-up messaging ? a2 First use of E-MAIL via FidoNet or other BBS ? a3 First use of FreeWare/File Distribution via FidoNet or other BBS ? a4 First use of Message/Conference Areas/Groups on BBS ? b1 First use of permanent IP addresses ? b2 First use of E-MAIL via IP addresses ? b3 First use of File Transfers via Internet ? b4 First use of NewsGroups via Internet ? b5 First use of Graphical Displays via Internet ? b6 First use of 'http://www' type URL addressing via Internet ? b7 First use of two-way (interactive) audio via Internet ? b8 First use of two-way (intereactive) video via Internet ? c1 Any other major Internet milestones in the Australian environment ? Many thanks, John G. (PS you don't need to answer all questions!) John GEREMIN, megajohn(a)sneaker.net.au Ph. 02-9764 4855 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ PDP-11 Support Consultant, MEGATRONICS, Australia. http://www.posit.com.au/megatronics/ NEW Mob. => 0427 10 20 60 <= Hon. Treasurer, Australian COMPUTER MUSEUM Society Inc. http://www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/ Fax: 02-9764 4679 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA75969 for pups-liszt; Mon, 22 May 2000 23:57:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From John G E R E M I N <megajohn(a)sneaker.net.au> Sun May 21 12:53:26 2000 Received: from threedee.com (mail.threedee.com [209.83.65.10]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA75965 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Mon, 22 May 2000 23:57:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jfoust(a)threedee.com) Received: from winnie.threedee.com (winnie [192.198.5.13]) by threedee.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA29050; Mon, 22 May 2000 08:56:39 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000522085035.01c28580@pc> X-Sender: jfoust@pc X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:54:53 -0500 To: <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> Subject: Re: ACMS, Questions on Internet History. (fwd) Cc: John G E R E M I N <megajohn(a)sneaker.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005221634220.26282-100000(a)fgh.geac.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk At 04:39 PM 5/22/00 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > a1 First use of Fido-Net or other BBS using Dial-up messaging ? > a2 First use of E-MAIL via FidoNet or other BBS ? > a3 First use of FreeWare/File Distribution via FidoNet or other BBS ? Tom Jennings, the creator of FidoNet, is still available at <tomj(a)wps.com> and there's a history at http://wps.com/FidoNet/source/Fido-FidoNet/fhist.html. Tom is now moderating the Dead Media Project at http://wps.com/dead-media/index.html. But by no means was FidoNet the first BBS. - John

25 years, 1 month

Ultrix V3.1 broken

by Warren Toomey

----- Forwarded message from Zane H. Healy ----- From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> While investigating building a Ultrix V3.1 tape I discovered that the file on the archive is corrupt. Distributions/dec/Ultrix-3.1/ultrix-3.1-bootape.tar.gz File 34: The ULTRIX-11 /usr file system in dump/restor format Zane ----- End of forwarded message from Zane H. Healy ----- Wilko Bulte sent that in to the PUPS Archive. Wilko, do you still have the tape. Can you try to read it again?! Cheers, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA22439 for pups-liszt; Sun, 21 May 2000 18:51:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From Wilko Bulte <wkb(a)chello.nl> Sun May 21 20:50:59 2000 Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22432 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Sun, 21 May 2000 18:51:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkb(a)chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000521085044.QFLE24740.relay02(a)chello.nl>; Sun, 21 May 2000 10:50:44 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA37481; Sun, 21 May 2000 10:50:59 GMT (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:50:59 +0000 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb(a)chello.nl> To: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Cc: Unix Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ultrix V3.1 broken Message-ID: <20000521105059.A21186(a)freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte(a)chello.nl References: <200005210610.QAA72885(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005210610.QAA72885(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>; from wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:10:21PM +1000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko(a)freebsd.org Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:10:21PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: Warren, When I untar the .tgz I get files named tapeblock[0-33] In tapeblock4 is an index of the original tape, which lists the various files on the tape. These are numbered *1* til *34* I think this is just an off by one thing, because there is no tapeblock34 at all. Please check if this is the case. I don't have any PDP operational so I cannot verify the contents of tapeblock33. But I'm pretty sure this is /usr W/ > ----- Forwarded message from Zane H. Healy ----- > > From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> > > While investigating building a Ultrix V3.1 tape I discovered that the file > on the archive is corrupt. > > Distributions/dec/Ultrix-3.1/ultrix-3.1-bootape.tar.gz > > File 34: The ULTRIX-11 /usr file system in dump/restor format > > Zane > ----- End of forwarded message from Zane H. Healy ----- > > Wilko Bulte sent that in to the PUPS Archive. Wilko, do you still have the > tape. Can you try to read it again?! > > Cheers, > Warren ---end quoted text--- -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org

25 years, 1 month

test mail for new PUPS list

by Warren Toomey

The PUPS list, web site & Archive has migrated to a Celeron. Just some test mail to confirm that the mailing list still works. Please ignore. Warren

25 years, 1 month

Re: A Public Thank You

by Warren Toomey

In article by Frank Wortner: > I just signed up for my free(!) SCO Ancient Unix license. It's great fun > to be able to explore again the code I first saw and worked on as a > student all too many years ago. It seems only right to thank those who > gave me access to this resource. > Frank Wortner I'd like to add some thanks to Frank's list. Thanks to those people who forked out their US$100 for the paper SCO license. It's a shame you can't get a refund. At least you have a real, signed, license that you can wave at your friends :-) Our first contact at SCO, Dion Johnson, fought with bureacracy and the legal naysayers to get us the first SCO license. Thanks, Dion! We have a lot of PUPS Volunteers behind the scenes who have been burning CDs and other media in the past 2-3 years. With the free license, they're going to get much busier, but are still volunteers. Everybody who has received a CD should congratulate these people. Soren Jorvang in particular deserves thanks. Hint: if you have a CD burner, YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY REQUIRED. Email me! Finally, the bulk of the files in the archive were donated by a few people: Dennis Ritchie, Henry Spencer, Keith Bostic, Tim Shoppa, Steven Schultz and Kirk McKusick are the most notable. Thanks to all those who have donated old files and information to the archive! Some quick stats: 100+ people have obtained for PUPS Archive access in the last 24 hours. Web activity was 1.2G, compared to a usual 36M, in the last 24 hours. Haven't checked ftp yet. Not bad for a 486! I'm switching over to the Celeron today, so expect a few hours of downtime and a few glitches. Cheers, Warren

25 years, 1 month

PUPS Archive access now available

by Warren Toomey

All, Access to The PUPS Archive can now be obtained with no human intervention. Go to http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html, agree to the SCO license. On the next page, click on `apply for access to the PUPS Archive'. Fill in your full name and e-mail address, and you will be given immediate access to the archive. I'm arranging for at least one mirror of the PUPS Archive in the USA. More would be welcome :-) Let me know if you can help! At present, the PUPS Archive can be accessed by FTP, HTTP and rsync. No more paper licenses, no more 6 week wait, yayy!!! Cheers, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA22778 for pups-liszt; Wed, 17 May 2000 00:34:51 +1000 (EST) >From Frank Wortner <frank(a)panix.com> Wed May 17 00:34:32 2000 Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA22774 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Wed, 17 May 2000 00:34:41 +1000 (EST) Received: from panix6.panix.com (panix6.panix.com [166.84.0.231]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D81331012 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by panix6.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) with ESMTP id KAA12675 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: panix6.panix.com: frank owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:34:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Wortner <frank(a)panix.com> To: UNIX Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: A Public Thank You In-Reply-To: <200005142045.GAA10926(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0005160929210.10013-100000(a)panix6.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk I just signed up for my free(!) SCO Ancient Unix license. It's great fun to be able to explore again the code I first saw and worked on as a student all too many years ago. It seems only right to thank those who gave me access to this resource. Thank you, Warren, for your work in convincing SCO to make this possible. Also thanks for the archives, the mailing list, the idea, and everything else. Thank you, SCO, for seeing the historic value of the code and generously making it available to enthusiasts. SCO's attitude towards this legacy is extremely rare amoung corporations, and they deserve our gratitude. Thanks also to everyone who contributed material to the PUPS archive. In the face of such generousity I'm sorry I don't have (or think I don't have) any material left from the PDP-11 era to add to the collection. And now, back to wallowing in PDP-11 nostalgia. :-) Frank Wortner

25 years, 1 month

WWW page for PDP-11 support in GNU binutils

by lars brinkhoff

I created a page to reflect the progress of the PDP-11 support in GNU binutils: http://pdp11.nocrew.org/ Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA13579 for pups-liszt; Mon, 15 May 2000 18:56:39 +1000 (EST) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Mon May 15 18:56:24 2000 Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13575 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Mon, 15 May 2000 18:56:32 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.3) id SAA31129; Mon, 15 May 2000 18:56:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <200005150856.SAA31129(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: WWW page for PDP-11 support in GNU binutils In-Reply-To: <85zopss1ai.fsf(a)junk.nocrew.org> from lars brinkhoff at "May 15, 2000 9:47: 1 am" To: lars(a)nocrew.org (lars brinkhoff) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:56:24 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by lars brinkhoff: > I created a page to reflect the progress of the PDP-11 support in > GNU binutils: > http://pdp11.nocrew.org/ Thanks Lars. Now that Minix is freely available, some of the applications there could be easily ported over to the PDP-11. Ciao, Warren

25 years, 1 month

SCO site has Unix for download

by Efton Collins

Hey, You may have seen it already, but I haven't seen an announcement on the PUPS list - SCO has got Unix 5th, 6th and 7th Editions, Mini Unix, System III and 32V available on their site for download. You can access them by going to www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html and accepting the license. Congratulations PUPS, this is a milestone. Efton

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