Installed VMS on the Alpha I got the other week. Install was straight forward, except for some problems I had with the SRM boot_osflags variable (for VMS it should be “0,0″ and not the default of “A”, which I think is for Tru64).
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Does anyone know who I can contact at HP to get Tru64 (for Alpha) non-commercial media and a license? There was at one point a non-commercial program, but it seems to have ended. There are rumors that if you email the right person, they’ll send you media and a licenses.
Does anyone have an AT case that I can have? I have an old 486 that needs a new case, and it’s fairly hard finding old AT cases that don’t cost an arm and a leg.
If anyone wants a lid from a SPARCstation 5, Aurora 2 chassis (Note the version 2, it has the cutout for the larger style cd-rom drive), send me a message.
I got a free SPARCstation 5 from smed on #ruslug and the cover was from the wrong chassis It’s funny how I recognized that it was from the newer style chassis right away. Anyway, I got a “new” lid for the Aurora 1 style chassis, so I don’t need this one.
Siva’s webtop – Call from Printer Company
This got a good chuckle out of me.
Speaking of HP, I installed VMS on my VAX this weekend. Still have no clue how to use it.
So I swapped out the power supply with one from work. No go. I then tried changing the frame buffer. Still nothing. I ended up trying the old processor (a UltraSPARC IIi 333 MHz; the machine’s original). Success! So the UltraSPARC IIi 440 MHz went bad.
There was a Infodoc (or whatever it’s called) on Sunsolve saying certain 440 MHz UltraSPARC IIi went bad prematurely, but that tended to be within 72 hours. I guess I got one of the slightly better ones, but still no good.
So the Ultra 10 doesn’t even boot now. I tried swapping the RAM with different DIMMs and no go. I’m going to try swapping the power supply and see how that goes.
Damnit, memory on the Ultra 10 is going bad:
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Video of the Colbert Report on the iPhone. Just found the reference to FORTRAN 77 funny.
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