CBMvax

[trekiej]

Looks like it could do a nice load of laundry.

[Tension]

Sure, why not, it was available.

Excellent!!

Always wondered what the page was for... Still none the wiser.

[tone007]

Phase 2 complete.



Next step, learn how to operate it!

Any hints appreciated.

[Tension]

Does it use IMPs?

[tone007]

...beats the heck out of me.  I know it's heavy, though.

[Plaz]

...beats the heck out of me.  I know it's heavy, though.

We retired our last vax servers around 2004 and had move production work off earlier around 2002. Don't know how much I can remember.... logins, print spoolers, process streams... ouch, now I think I hurt a memory cell. You should be able to find some DEC manuals on the net I would think.

Plaz

[Steady]

@tone007:

Get yerself a DEC terminal and learn VMS. To get a jump on VMS I believe OpenVMS can be downloaded in some form for practice, but from my VMS time I remember there being a cabinet full of manuals and lots of things are different to what you would normally expect coming from the PC/UNIX world ... have fun.

[Jope]

The bangs in the address were essentially how the old email systems routed messages (UUCP, IIRC.)  There was no "cbmvax.com" it was just "cbmvax".

You'll find traces of the old routing scheme all over Usenet messages from the period.  I believe the system still runs today, though not within circles I travel.  This is relegated to the oldest of wizards and warlocks -- an age unknown which exists only in legend.

You are correct, it was just UUCP routing, very common on the internet up to the late 80s. SMTP and NNTP running on top of TCP/IP took over quite early on, so most of us never had to deal with UUCP.

More than you ever want to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

[myce]

Next step, learn how to operate it!

Any hints appreciated.

Maybe I could help here. Recently set up VMS on an old AXP-Board.
So, if you are still interested, contact me.

myce

[DonnyEMU]

If you need some help feel free to ask. My first multi-user computing environment in College (a long time ago) was a Vax Cluster..

[tone007]

Well, I eventually did find an old TCP stack (CMUIP) to run on the machine, which provided telnet, FTP, and finger services, but it seems for the version of VMS the system is running (5.4) there don't seem to be any HTTP servers available, so I've put the project aside until I can find a newer OS to run on the system.

For now, it's happy sitting in my "server room."