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by Jason T. Miller

After about a week of work (mainly due to a dying RA81 ... see below), I have successfully installed 2.11BSD on my 11/83. First and foremost, thanks to a) Steven M. Shultz for so carefully maintaining and updating (!) CSRG's PDP-11 code to work with hardware such as my MSCP drives and TMSCP TK50 and b) everyone involved in prodding SCO to release free Ancient UNIX source licenses. After dealing with a crippled binary-only Micro/RSX lack-of-a-kit, and as a FreeBSD user of five-odd years, I decided to bite the bullet and see what UNIX was/is like on a PDP. Thanks to the work of Steven and a cast of thousands, it's pretty damned impressive. The only problems I've been having seem to be coming from disk controllers without media. More specifically, I get a hard error, followed by an endless loop of error indications if I try to access one of my RX50s (on an RQDX3 controller), and the only recourse is a reset. Okay, so the solution here is simple: don't do it. The bigger problem comes with my flake-job of an RA81, which, FWIW, is the only fixed disk storage I have. It has a strange habit: the "A" light goes off and the controller can no longer access it. If I soft-restart the PDP (under either RSX or UNIX), the driver connects back to the drive without a glitch. And this gives me the same loop-of-errors syndrome as an empty RX50. Anyone have any pointers or sage advice? I figured I may try to modify the MSCP driver to re-init the controller on a hard error, and try again. But the MSCP code is fairly complicated, and I know nothing of the protocol. Anyone have any MSCP documentation which I could beg, borrow, or steal? I'd give the specific error codes, but I haven't written any down yet and I'm at work. Also, I am willing to provide a Good Home for any 19" rackmount MSCP drives in the midwest. Let me rephrase that: any one or two; I have a one bedroom apartment, and I'm saving a bit of floorspace for a (yet to materialize) VAX. Also Qbus thinnet or SCSI would be nice, whilst on cloud 780... TIA, jasomill Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA39885 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:30:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From "Jason T. Miller" <jasomill(a)shaffstall.com> Fri May 26 08:28:09 2000 Received: from guildenstern.shaffstall.com (cisdn-2.on-net.net [206.229.84.2]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA39881 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:30:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jasomill(a)shaffstall.com) Received: from localhost (jasomill@localhost) by guildenstern.shaffstall.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21354 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:28:10 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: guildenstern.shaffstall.com: jasomill owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:28:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason T. Miller" <jasomill(a)shaffstall.com> To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: to change without notice Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005251726530.20729-100000(a)guildenstern.shaffstall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk After reading the _entire_ archive of PUPS messages, and realizing that, no, I'm not crazy and, no, I'm not the only one still interested in old hardware and software, I dug up two old 16-bit UNIX distributions and promptly archived 'em. Unfortunately, they're binary only and System-V based, so I can't just throw 'em in the archive. But when the game is up on the System-V codebase, I hope these CD-Rs are still around. They are: - SCO XENIX 286 2.2, complete OS with development system and text processing ([tn]roff, etc) - Microport System V/AT Development System (runtimes say both 1.3 and 2.3, development stuff says 1.3 - don't know, never booted this one) All the floppies read without errors, and I've actually booted and run the XENIX (used it for a tape conversion job a couple years ago) - works as long as you have a 5.25" floppy drive and reasonably old hardware - I ran it on a 386 but it doesn't grok VGA. Also, I have the ability to write TK50 tapes along with a wide range of other formats (my employer makes tape conversion equipment and software); no TK25 (unless the old IBM Tandberg VarBlock format is identical - don't know) or TK70, but just about anything else (need PDP UNIX on an HP 9144A cartridge tape; a) why? and b) I can help*!). I'd be happy to cut PDP UNIX tapes for media and shipping. Finally, anyone ever used the mtools package to read MS-DOS disks from an RX50 from a DEC Rainbow? I'm working on it (no Rainbow, but I've got a box that writes Rainbow disks) and I'd be glad to help anyone interested; I'm also working on R/W RX50 on FreeBSD. Jason T. Miller jasomill(a)shaffstall.com * but not much, unless someone is willing to replace the rubber roller thingy on my HP drive, but, as usual, I digress. Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA39928 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:34:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri May 26 08:33:51 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 IAA39924 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:34:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.3) id IAA07703; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:33:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <200005252233.IAA07703(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Dead MicroVAX II :( In-Reply-To: <392CE14B.597E81B8(a)willapabay.org> from "Mike W." at "May 25, 2000 1:16:11 am" To: tscowboy(a)willapabay.org (Mike W.) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 08:33:51 +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 Mike W.: > I have a digital microvax II in a 'world case'. I was wondering how to > hook it up and make it fly. I was told that it runs the Micro VMS OS, > but no to get get it on the machine, Model: one of two: VS12W-B2 or > V512W-B2. It is an old sticker, could be a 5 or an S. A tape drive is > installed, but no tape disk came with it. Is there another OS it can > run? I wish I knew what to do. I turn it on and it reads something like > 8, 7, 6, 5, 8, B, C, 3 and then after a VERY long pause, it reads E for > another long period, then 6 for another long wait and then E forever. > How do I hook up the Console to work on it. For that matter, what does > the console look like? How do I go to console mode? Is there some kind > of manual on it? I have about 8 or 9 monitors and the same amount of > keyboards and most of the cables. I would like to bring it back to life > and put it in a show room or something. I have no money, the whole thing > was given to me. The drives > were wiped clean (it was at the Hospital, they upgraded). I take it the > E on the readout tells me, "There is no OS installed". After a month or > so of searching the internet, I have found a few 'commands' and how to > wire one cable, a picture and QBUS routing, but nothing on 'where and > how the cables go on the back (bulkhead). I need to know how, why and > when to turn the knobs on the back. > Yes, I know nothing of this thing and would like to learn. I know the > MAC a little, MS-DOS in my sleep. Anyway..... > > Mike Williams > 4212 S. Pacific Way > Seaview, Wa. 98644-0068 > tscowboy(a)willapabay.org I'll cc this to the Pups mailing list. You should subscribe so that you can get any answers! Details at: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/maillist.html Ciao, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA40418 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:13:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri May 26 10:12:40 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 KAA40414 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:13:26 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.3) id KAA08415 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:12:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <200005260012.KAA08415(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Who uploaded these to the PUPS ARchive? To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:12:40 +1000 (EST) 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 Hi all, I'm just doing some house cleaning on the PUPS Archive. I've forgotten who uploaded these into the incoming directory? -rw-r----- 1 wkt pupsarc 53634 Feb 24 1999 29pro_inclsys.tar.gz -rw-r----- 1 wkt pupsarc 777081 Feb 24 1999 29pro_sys.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 pups pupsarc 5332873 Jan 17 01:48 old-ultrix-32.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 pups pupsarc 371111664 Mar 20 06:00 old-ultrix.tar.gz As well, can you supply a README saying what is in these files, too :-) My memory isn't what it used to me. Thanks! Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA41586 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 14:35:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Fri May 26 14:34:18 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 OAA41582 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 14:35:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.3) id OAA09658 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Fri, 26 May 2000 14:34:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <200005260434.OAA09658(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: More PUPS Donations & Volunteers To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (Unix Heritage Society) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:34:18 +1000 (EST) 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 Hi all, Since the free SCO license, we've had an enormous demand on our PUPS volunteers. If there is anybody in Japan who can burn CDs, could you contact me if you are prepared to burn a few copies of the PUPS CD. I've made a start on tidying up the archive & moving recently donated things to appropriate directories. Are there other systems out there which could be donated to the archive? I've just have a Z8000 SystemIII system being donated. I'm happy to take donations, but they may not be moved into the main archive because I don't want to have my butt sued off. Ages ago, George Colouris at QMC in the UK had a 9-track tape containing QED, the visual Unix editor which influenced the development of vi. Can anybody in the UK read 9-tracks. If so, I'll put you in contact with George. Cheers, Warren Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA41696 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 14:51:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From "David O'Brien" <obrien(a)NUXI.com> Fri May 26 14:44:17 2000 Received: from relay.nuxi.com (root(a)nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA41692 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 14:51:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from obrien(a)NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (nobody(a)relay.nuxi.com [169.237.7.38]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA06137; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien(a)dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA42078; Thu, 25 May 2000 21:44:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 21:44:17 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien(a)NUXI.com> To: "Mike W." <tscowboy(a)willapabay.org> Cc: Unix Heritage Society <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Dead MicroVAX II :( Message-ID: <20000525214417.A58091(a)dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien(a)NUXI.com References: <392CE14B.597E81B8(a)willapabay.org> <200005252233.IAA07703(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: <200005252233.IAA07703(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>; from wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:33:51AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:33:51AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Mike W.: > > I have a digital microvax II in a 'world case'. I was wondering how to > > hook it up and make it fly. I was told that it runs the Micro VMS OS, The port-vax(a)netbsd.org list is full of very VAX clueful people. -- -- David (obrien(a)NUXI.com) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA42383 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:00:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From lars brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> Fri May 26 15:59:56 2000 Received: from junk.nocrew.org (mail(a)[212.73.17.42]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA42379 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:00:53 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from lars(a)junk.nocrew.org) Received: from lars by junk.nocrew.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 12vDA4-00039I-00; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:59:56 +0200 To: Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)Update.UU.SE> Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Re: PDP-11 MMU docs? References: <Pine.VUL.3.93.1000525173018.7767F-100000(a)Zeke.Update.UU.SE> From: lars brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> Date: 26 May 2000 07:59:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: Johnny Billquist's message of "Thu, 25 May 2000 17:30:37 +0200 (MET DST)" Message-ID: <85em6pvokj.fsf(a)junk.nocrew.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)Update.UU.SE> writes: > On 25 May 2000, lars brinkhoff wrote: > > Is there any PDP-11 MMU documentation available? > Don't remember seeing any. What do you want to know? Everything necessary to emulate one in software. I have Supnik's simulator, but it would be easier if I had proper docs. Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA42466 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:20:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) >From "Steven M. Schultz" <sms(a)moe.2bsd.com> Fri May 26 16:18:57 2000 Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0(a)MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA42459 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:20:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from sms(a)moe.2bsd.com) Received: (from sms@localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA29942 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Thu, 25 May 2000 23:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:18:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steven M. Schultz" <sms(a)moe.2bsd.com> Message-Id: <200005260618.XAA29942(a)moe.2bsd.com> To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Re: PDP-11 MMU docs? Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hi - > From: lars brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> > Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)Update.UU.SE> writes: > > On 25 May 2000, lars brinkhoff wrote: > > > Is there any PDP-11 MMU documentation available? > > Don't remember seeing any. What do you want to know? > > Everything necessary to emulate one in software. I have Supnik's > simulator, but it would be easier if I had proper docs. Do you also have Harti Brandt's P11 ("Begemot") emulator? That is a _work of art_! Has an emulated DEQNA so you can place the "PDP-11" on a LAN, the timeskew problem has been fixed (the emulated pdp-11 keeps good time), and it also has a TOY clock now. Check out http://www.begemot.org Steven Schultz sms(a)moe.2bsd.com Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA43074 for pups-liszt; Fri, 26 May 2000 18:55:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au)

24 years, 11 months

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)

24 years, 11 months

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)

24 years, 11 months

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

24 years, 11 months

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

24 years, 11 months

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

24 years, 11 months

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

24 years, 11 months

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

24 years, 11 months

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

24 years, 12 months

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

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