A new old thing

PIEBALDconsult

Mike Hankey wrote:

Spent a good portion of my early career working on DEC machines.

Me too; 1983 through 2002.

Mike Hankey wrote:

pleasure

I've been relegated to an OpenVMS Hobbyist[^]. :sigh:

PIEBALDconsult

I should be able to put OpenVMS 7.3 on it. Once it has disks and I get media... etc. etc. etc.

Stuart Dootson

7.3…I think the last one I used (before transitioning to Windows…95) was 5.5…or something like that. I'm guessing my long-forgotten VMS skills would still be applicable...

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Lost User

BC?

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PIEBALDconsult

I was using 6.2 when Win95 was new. My last job involving OpenVMS was using 7.2

Stuart Dootson wrote:

long-forgotten VMS skills

I bought these systems and became a hobbyist to keep mine from atrophying completely. And I can show others what a real operating system is like. :cool:

Mike Hankey

Yeah that's about the same period for me. Did a lot of very neat stuff on Vax machines.....Ah the good old days!

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

I've been relegated to an OpenVMS Hobbyist[^]. Sigh

Cool, good to see they are still being used.

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Ravi Bhavnani

Oh man... severe nostalgia! I really miss my LK201. :cool: I'd kill to be able to use one with my Windows box! /ravi

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PIEBALDconsult

My VT220 has one of those. But you can't have it.

Ravi Bhavnani

Dang, I wish I'd kept my µVAX-II. I used to sit on it while playing guitar. It was the perfect height - and boy could it support a ton! Although I think my iPod Nano probably has more power. :) /ravi

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Ravi Bhavnani

Here's[^] some more nostalgia. :) /ravi

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Ravi Bhavnani

I'm sure you have one of these[^]. :) /ravi

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PIEBALDconsult

I have a VT101 User Guide -- it's my go-to source for ASCII tables.

Lost User

Awesome! :-D

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Ravi Bhavnani

Not to mention glass TTY escape sequences - IIRC was <ESC>[K was erase current line, <ESC>[2J was erase from cursor to EOL and <ESC>[9 was toggle between 80/132 column modes. Fond memories of writing screenfuls of DCL macros... ah, the life that was Digital! :cool: /ravi

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PIEBALDconsult

I didn't do much with deletes, but positioning. Also on VT340s (if I recall correctly) I would open someone else's terminus and scroll a message on the status line. :thumbsup:

Gary R Wheeler

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

Fond memories of writing screenfuls of DCL macros...

Oh man, I'm having flashbacks. My last project on a microVAX was a FORTRAN simulation. The contract stipulated 'pure' FORTRAN-77 code, but I wanted to use some of the VAX FORTRAN features. I wrote a program generator in DCL. It generated 'pure' FORTRAN-77 from the VAX FORTRAN source, creating data access routines, global variable declarations, and so on.

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Mario Michetti

With the === A L P H A === processor. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhh.

Old Ed

VMS, now there's a walk down memory lane. VMS was an elegantly crafted operating system. Worked with it for 10 years at a great job. VMS, C, good times...

Snowman58

Perhaps a more revealing question; Why did you get it???? I have fond memories of using PDP-9's and 10's with paper tape storage, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I would want one today!

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