June 2017 - vcf-midatlantic

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum pictures
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic writes: >As a docent, I took some photos a ways back attempting decent coverage >and just put them on my imgur account. Its not official or complete, but >perhaps useful for now. http://imgur.com/a/tjYMm It would be great if we >did something like what I have here on the VCFed site that we could put >our official descriptions and let folks also ad personal accounts and >comments. How about a 4K video walk-through?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum pictures
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic writes: >On 6/7/2017 1:36 PM, Brian Schenkenberger via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic writes: > >> As a docent, I took >some photos a ways back attempting decent coverage >> and just put them >on my imgur account. Its not official or complete, but >> perhaps useful >for now. http://imgur.com/a/tjYMm It would be great if we >> did >something like what I have here on the VCFed site that we could put >> >our official descriptions and let folks also ad personal accounts and >> >comments. > How about a 4K video walk-through? Panoramic as an example: >https://www.isec.space/pano/9162/_html5/9162.html Save that that's not video, that'd be cool too. >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum pictures
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic writes: >> How about a 4K video walk-through? > >We'll consider it. Again, there is the concern of "giving away" too much >if people can see the whole thing while laying in bed and using their >smartphones. LOL! No, just a video to serve as an advertisement of what's in store should they decide to get out of bed and or turn off their smartphones.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic writes: >AFAIK OSes which require drives with '512 byte blocks' is sort of a scsi >hack. The physical data on the cd surface is 2048 byte blocks (plus ECC >and subchannel data you don't normally see for 2532 bytes per sector, >plus headers and sync marks etc) The whole 512 byte thing is a special >mode certain cd drives have which sends each 2048 byte block to the host >computer as if it was four separate 512 byte blocks/sectors, but its >really just a translation layer. Not all drives do it. > >The actual CD contents for these VMS cds are 2048 byte blocks, the 512 >byte magic happens in the drive, AFAIK. > >I could be wrong about this. Pretty much, that's correct. However, if you want VMS to boot from the CD, it had better present the CD image in 512 byte blocks.

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Here's the COBOL article
by Evan Koblentz 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/cobol-programmers-know-old-is-not-bad/ ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan(a)vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation

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Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
by Neil Cherry 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

I just found my CD of the VMS Hobbyist CD for 5.4, 5.5, 5.5-2, 6.0, 6.1 and 7.2. No licenses but I think folks can handle that. I expect to be At infoAge on Monday night. Is there somewhere I can leave them so VCF can pick them up? -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic writes: >The content might not be ISO but the file extension is.. Usable by SIMH >on the Pc.... The extension means nothing. You could call it .DOGFART and it'd still function.

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Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
by Herb Johnson 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

> On 06/04/2017 08:49 PM, Neil Cherry wrote: Private to Neil Cherry: contact me on an unrelated matter. Seems you are not getting my private emails. Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic writes: >All the VMS Images I have, even the ones from Digital have ".iso" = >extensions so I assume some software "barfs" at other extensions. When I >= started playing with VMS images I assumed they were ISO but quickly = >found out they are not, they are just block dumps of the filing system, >= and I believe if you have a Linux system you can just DD them to a = >partition and then mount under VMS. There is a vast collection of VAX = >images at vaxhaven.com again all as ".iso" files... >From Digital, I'm assuming d|i|g|i|t|a|l as in Digital Equipment Corp? I don't recall DEC ever distributing anything with an ISO extension save for DECnet-ISO, later called 'phase V'.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic writes: >Neil, Could you pull ISOs of a couple of the CDs before you take them to >IA? Jim Just to be pedantic, the VMS distribution kit CDs are not ISO-9660! One can make an image of the CD's contents -- call it an ISO if it makes you feel better -- but its contents are not ISO-9660. This image can then be burned to recordable CD media by an appropriate burner but then, they'll only be useable on VMS. Also note that some of the older hardware many of you may be playing with will have early generation CD-rom drives that may be onerous when trying to read newecordable CD media.

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