A new old thing
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I think I remember when those were "the new hot"…or was it a VAXstation 3100…probably… Wow…what VMS are you sticking on it?
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I should be able to put OpenVMS 7.3 on it. Once it has disks and I get media... etc. etc. etc.
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I should be able to put OpenVMS 7.3 on it. Once it has disks and I get media... etc. etc. etc.
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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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
"FEB 90".
1890? ;P
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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...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
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:
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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:
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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Whoo hoo!! My MicroVAX 3100 just arrived! :cool: A label says it was manufactured in "FEB 90". Now I have to make sure it works and get some disks for it. And an adapter to connect it to the network... And install VMS...
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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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My VT220 has one of those. But you can't have it.
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My VT220 has one of those. But you can't have it.
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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Beats me - that's one blast from the past, guy! Where did you get that?
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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My VT220 has one of those. But you can't have it.
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I have a VT101 User Guide -- it's my go-to source for ASCII tables.
Not to mention glass TTY escape sequences - IIRC was
<ESC>[Kwas erase current line,<ESC>[2Jwas erase from cursor to EOL and<ESC>[9was toggle between 80/132 column modes. Fond memories of writing screenfuls ofDCLmacros... ah, the life that was Digital! :cool: /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Not to mention glass TTY escape sequences - IIRC was
<ESC>[Kwas erase current line,<ESC>[2Jwas erase from cursor to EOL and<ESC>[9was toggle between 80/132 column modes. Fond memories of writing screenfuls ofDCLmacros... ah, the life that was Digital! :cool: /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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:
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Not to mention glass TTY escape sequences - IIRC was
<ESC>[Kwas erase current line,<ESC>[2Jwas erase from cursor to EOL and<ESC>[9was toggle between 80/132 column modes. Fond memories of writing screenfuls ofDCLmacros... ah, the life that was Digital! :cool: /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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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Whoo hoo!! My MicroVAX 3100 just arrived! :cool: A label says it was manufactured in "FEB 90". Now I have to make sure it works and get some disks for it. And an adapter to connect it to the network... And install VMS...
With the === A L P H A === processor. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhh.
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Whoo hoo!! My MicroVAX 3100 just arrived! :cool: A label says it was manufactured in "FEB 90". Now I have to make sure it works and get some disks for it. And an adapter to connect it to the network... And install VMS...
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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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I think I remember when those were "the new hot"…or was it a VAXstation 3100…probably… Wow…what VMS are you sticking on it?
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
I worked for DEC for 17 years. First I programmed in Pascal on a contract, then I did customer support for the VMS operating system for 9 years, moving to support of programming languages (FORTRAN was my main focus), and finally I went back to programming. Did 7 years of development on their automated backup system (in C and C++). I loved VMS...the most secure operating system in the world. Have fun!
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