that's awesome to do for the community. I don't have a VMS system up and running but I know Dave McGuire will on the other end of PA. Bill On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that SDFVM, the Interim Computer Museum's VM/IS (VM/SP 5) system, is now available to connect to over HNET, the mainframe hobbyist NJE network! This means that any systems connected to HNET can send files and mail to SDFVM.
In practice, that means you can:
* Use VM SENDFILE to send files over RSCS to SDFVM users, or if you are on SDFVM, to use RSCS to send files to users on other HNET systems * Use PROFS or OfficeVision to send mail to users enrolled on PROFS on SDFVM * Install the TOOLS/TOOLSRUN packages on your VM system and mirror the tools and conferencing disks hosted on SDFVM. And SDFVM can mirror any tools/conferencing disks hosted on yours!
If you have a system on HNET, you can set your default route to DEARN and should then be able to connect to SDFVM. Write to Evie Cooper at wec@bam.moe (on copy) and she'll do her best to get you hooked into us.
Here's how we're connected into the network:
DEARN -> HSNET -> EVIEVM -> SDFVM
-- Regards,
Dan FitzGerald Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepse http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/DFITZGER VM/SP Systems Programming Team, Interim Computer Museum HNET: SDFVM(DFITZGER)
Hello! Wonderful news. Oh and Bill? That's a VM/IS (VM/SP 5) setup. For an IBM setup. The other OS is for a different family. ---- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
that's awesome to do for the community. I don't have a VMS system up and running but I know Dave McGuire will on the other end of PA. Bill
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that SDFVM, the Interim Computer Museum's VM/IS (VM/SP 5) system, is now available to connect to over HNET, the mainframe hobbyist NJE network! This means that any systems connected to HNET can send files and mail to SDFVM.
In practice, that means you can:
* Use VM SENDFILE to send files over RSCS to SDFVM users, or if you are on SDFVM, to use RSCS to send files to users on other HNET systems * Use PROFS or OfficeVision to send mail to users enrolled on PROFS on SDFVM * Install the TOOLS/TOOLSRUN packages on your VM system and mirror the tools and conferencing disks hosted on SDFVM. And SDFVM can mirror any tools/conferencing disks hosted on yours!
If you have a system on HNET, you can set your default route to DEARN and should then be able to connect to SDFVM. Write to Evie Cooper at wec@bam.moe (on copy) and she'll do her best to get you hooked into us.
Here's how we're connected into the network:
DEARN -> HSNET -> EVIEVM -> SDFVM
-- Regards,
Dan FitzGerald Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepse http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/DFITZGER VM/SP Systems Programming Team, Interim Computer Museum HNET: SDFVM(DFITZGER)
Interesting, I don't think I've ever told anyone about it. But yes, I myself have two running P/390s, and of course several instances of Hercules, at home. LSSM, however, has the real running big iron. There's an S/390 G3, a Multiprise 3000, and an ES/9000 running there. There are more in storage, but those are the ones that are up and running on the exhibit floor. We are also making slow progress on the 4341 there. -Dave On 9/15/25 15:49, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
that's awesome to do for the community. I don't have a VMS system up and running but I know Dave McGuire will on the other end of PA. Bill
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that SDFVM, the Interim Computer Museum's VM/IS (VM/SP 5) system, is now available to connect to over HNET, the mainframe hobbyist NJE network! This means that any systems connected to HNET can send files and mail to SDFVM.
In practice, that means you can:
* Use VM SENDFILE to send files over RSCS to SDFVM users, or if you are on SDFVM, to use RSCS to send files to users on other HNET systems * Use PROFS or OfficeVision to send mail to users enrolled on PROFS on SDFVM * Install the TOOLS/TOOLSRUN packages on your VM system and mirror the tools and conferencing disks hosted on SDFVM. And SDFVM can mirror any tools/conferencing disks hosted on yours!
If you have a system on HNET, you can set your default route to DEARN and should then be able to connect to SDFVM. Write to Evie Cooper at wec@bam.moe (on copy) and she'll do her best to get you hooked into us.
Here's how we're connected into the network:
DEARN -> HSNET -> EVIEVM -> SDFVM
-- Regards,
Dan FitzGerald Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepse http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/DFITZGER VM/SP Systems Programming Team, Interim Computer Museum HNET: SDFVM(DFITZGER)
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Case Wise and I are were approached to something going in Danbury, which we are calling "Danbury Area Retrocomputing Enthusiasts", or "D.A.R.E.". I have a PC Server 330 P/390 that is ready to run there as DANVM1, and is currently in my basement running VM/ESA 2.4.0. I have the parts to build a P/370 in a PS/2 Model 80, but I expect it to be as slow as molasses. Case and I very much would like to get our hands on a Multiprise/3000 to start off with. I want to do the things there that I can't do at IBM, namely connecting computers to networks. Some day I would like to get my hands on an Endicott-produced 9370, because that was Endicott's "last gasp" -- the last product designed, developed, and manufactured in Endicott, NY. It was a big enough deal to the site that they produced a glossy covered paperback with "research paper" style articles and pictures of the development and manufacturing teams. - Dan On 9/15/25 16:06, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Interesting, I don't think I've ever told anyone about it. But yes, I myself have two running P/390s, and of course several instances of Hercules, at home.
LSSM, however, has the real running big iron. There's an S/390 G3, a Multiprise 3000, and an ES/9000 running there. There are more in storage, but those are the ones that are up and running on the exhibit floor.
We are also making slow progress on the 4341 there.
-Dave
On 9/15/25 15:49, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
that's awesome to do for the community. I don't have a VMS system up and running but I know Dave McGuire will on the other end of PA. Bill
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that SDFVM, the Interim Computer Museum's VM/IS (VM/SP 5) system, is now available to connect to over HNET, the mainframe hobbyist NJE network! This means that any systems connected to HNET can send files and mail to SDFVM.
In practice, that means you can:
* Use VM SENDFILE to send files over RSCS to SDFVM users, or if you are on SDFVM, to use RSCS to send files to users on other HNET systems * Use PROFS or OfficeVision to send mail to users enrolled on PROFS on SDFVM * Install the TOOLS/TOOLSRUN packages on your VM system and mirror the tools and conferencing disks hosted on SDFVM. And SDFVM can mirror any tools/conferencing disks hosted on yours!
If you have a system on HNET, you can set your default route to DEARN and should then be able to connect to SDFVM. Write to Evie Cooper at wec@bam.moe (on copy) and she'll do her best to get you hooked into us.
Here's how we're connected into the network:
DEARN -> HSNET -> EVIEVM -> SDFVM
-- Regards,
Dan FitzGerald Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepse http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/DFITZGER VM/SP Systems Programming Team, Interim Computer Museum HNET: SDFVM(DFITZGER)
-- Regards, Dan FitzGerald Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepse http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/DFITZGER VM/SP Systems Programming Team, Interim Computer Museum HNET: SDFVM(DFITZGER)
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Gregg Levine