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Need a Doc Sec? Or a PDP 11 Clone?
A long-time DEC enthusiast in Dallas has a full VMS doc set circa 1990, plus a Plessy PDP 11 clone looking for a happy home.
If you know of one (and could come pick it up!), let me know and we'll arrange for the 'adoption'.
While not a globally popular editor, it's definitely one with a proud following and useful features. If you'd like to continue to use TECO, especially in environments that were TECO-challenges, check this:
http://almy.us/teco.html
TECO is available for a wide variety of platforms, with a distribution for any likely desktop of choice!
I found an audio file of Terry Shannon when he spoke at the Dallas/Ft. Worth DFWDays in 1998. I thought that Hobbyists would find it interesting to hear Terry Shannon/Charlie Matco/Cedric Zool speak on the DEC/Compaq merger, Alpha Wildfire, IA64, and other OpenVMS related topics.
And check out part where is says "In addition, the OpenVMS Hobbyist Program offers kits containing OpenVMS Base O/S software and selected Layered Products via download." I know this is something that's been asked about on several occasions, and HP has finally taken it to heart. This should also allow the Hobbyist Program to provide a lot more Layered Products that previously available.
HP has decided to take ownership of delivering licenses for Hobbyist users, making it an official Customer Engagement function. As such, Hobby Licenses will no longer be available through this site. Details of the HP's delivery of licenses to Hobbyist Users is still under development and I hope that they will have an announcement soon.
I've been involved and hosting licensing for the Hobbyist Program for nearly 15 years. Hard to believe that it's been that long. And many of you have been around since the beginning. Few products in this industry have that kind of customer retention.
I'd really like to thank Pat Jankowiak and Mark Gorham for making the Hobbyist Program possible. Sue Skonetski and Stephen Hoffman for all their technical assistance over the years. Ian Miller, Bruce Claremont, and John Malmberg for helping admin the site. Thanks to all the various Chapters from around the world for their support. And of course, all the Hobbyists who have enjoyed the program.
And of finally, I would like to thank my colleague, my friend, and the Best Man at my wedding, John Wisniewski. He spent a lot of time convincing the Digital VP's that this was a good thing.
Here's to another 15 years!
David Cathey aka HobbyistOne
HP OpenVMS Technical Update Days - Singapore 28th -29th April 2011
Dear OpenVMS enthusiasts,
Please join HP OpenVMS Technical Update Days for 2011.
During this 2-day event the OpenVMS engineering team and its partners will:
• Address critical technical issues to help drive higher productivity
• Discuss innovative solutions and best practices
• Provide a Strategy Update for OpenVMS and HP Integrity Servers
OpenVMS Technical Update Days is also an ideal platform for networking with other OpenVMS users.
Welcome to V16 of the OpenVMS Technical Journal. It is indeed a great pleasure in bringing this edition of the Technical Journal to all the VMS enthusiasts around the world. We trust that you will find all the articles informative and useful.
In VTJ v16, I am sure you will find all articles will be of interest to you. We have enlisted the articles in VTJ v16 below :
· Archive Backup System and Data Protector: Leading OpenVMS Backup Solutions, Deepa R Shenoy
· MIKADO, a Virtual VAX based on a Real-time Operating System, Dr. Robert Boers, CEO & Founder Stromasys
· OpenVMS Guest Troubleshooting, Bhadresh Udani
· OpenVMS RAD Support on Integrity Systems, Shyamalendu Sarkar, Durga Prasad and Narayanan
· Data Encryption Using Archive Backup System, Nagendra Shastry
We would appreciate your feedback not only on this issue but the OpenVMS Technical Journal as a whole.
If you would like to submit an article for the next issue please click here. Thank you for your continued support, and a big thanks to all the authors who contributed for this edition of VTJ v16.
Got pointed to this recent DEFCON presentation on OpenVMS. We're glad to see after all this time, there's still references to OpenVMS at DEFCON. The foray into the Lions Den by a group of Dallas folks is even mentioned in the talk. But, it's an excellent example that even one of the most secure operating systems can still be compromised by bad coding. And even from within OpenVMS Engineering. In particular, the TCP/IP team. Which managed to be bug-compatible with other similar functions. A very interesting talk.
My only critique of the session is "People still run 'finger' on OpenVMS?" Apparently so. A tip o' the hat to Dave Smith from the UK for letting me know about this.
It is with great sadness that I heard that Ken Olsen has passed away at age 84. He was surrounded by family and friends in Indiana. Ken Olsen started a revolution in the computer industry producing some of the finest and innovative products on the market. Even today, products built while he was at the helm of Digital Equipment Corporation are still running and functional. An era gone by of quality and durability which now seems all but a memory.
A memorial service is being planned at Gordon College in May to celebrate his life.
One of my favourite quotes attributed to Ken was when a reporter asked how many people worked at Digital, and Ken said "About half".
Hello everyone! We're back online! Sorry for the outage, but here in North Texas we've had a little bit of bad weather. Okay, you Canadians would call it "Fall", but it's pretty unusual here in Texas. Ordinarily it should be no problem. However the power grid folks (ERCOT) decided to have a series of blackouts because they were having problems. We got 4 of them. They were just long enough to test the limits of the UPS's, and frequent enough to cause havoc on our systems. You should always have a backup, but unfortunately, both the primary and secondary DS10L systems suffered a CPU fan failure. Part #74-60847-01. The same fan on both, so I couldn't even trade parts between them to get a working system.
However, thanks to a rapid shipment from Island Computers, I was able to get everything back up and running quickly.
It is with much regret that we have to announce the sad news that Alistair King died after a short illness on 6th May 2010.
Alistair was the Chairman of DECUS in the UK for many years and latterly was the Chairman of INTEREX-EMEA. He was also involved with the Advocacy Programme and was known widely in the HP User Community. He leaves behind a devoted wife and son. He will be sadly missed in his family and business life.
His funeral will take place on Friday 14th at 14:30 at Westall Park, Hollberrow Green, Worcestershire. B96 6JY. No flowers, donations to Cancer Research.
malmberg May 11 2013 In general the current compilers will work on older versions of VMS.
malmberg May 11 2013 Is this for Hobby use or commercial use?
perikiz May 06 2013 [url=http://www.perikiz.c om][/url]I'm looking for COBOL and BASIC for AXP 7.3. Any ideas?
malmberg April 16 2013 Hobbyist one is looking into what can be done to better block the spammers with out impacting the legitimate users.
pfau2 April 15 2013 this latest one posted 143 times within 24 hours
pfau2 April 15 2013 there should be a limit on how many posts you can make until we have some reason to believe you're not a spammer
somersdave April 12 2013 Can't some limit be put on posts per hour or something? These cretinous spamers seem determined to spoil the site (for some reason)
eMGee March 11 2013 My rx2620 will be scrapped by the end of Friday this week (see thread 2041/post 6746).
FranciscoRaulOrtega February 28 2013 selling two integrity servers. Check the forum !
Lord Beckett February 20 2013 port VMS, hand over the code or jumpstart FreeVMS.
eMGee February 13 2013 Okay, I will. In fact, I have lots of pictures to potentially share, also detailed pictures of a mint-condition DS15 (that I recently sold). Well, that is, if anyone is interested. Feel free to PM
HobbyistOne February 06 2013 I don't recall seeing any photo submissions from eMGee. Could you post them again?
eMGee February 01 2013 Does anyone still care to update the “gallery”? I think I sent a picture many months ago (by now), but nothing happened.
Maybe it's time for a new, or additional, VMS web community?
vaxpert January 29 2013 I'm looking for COBOL and BASIC for AXP 7.3. Any ideas?
