Recent content by GreyHairedDECfan

It'd be TOPS-20 for me, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

That's great! Other than the LEDs which we messed around with via code, frankly the keyboard from the VT-100 isn't that great. Clunky, terrible key feel, etc. So being able to use a new keyboard with it would be super. Nice job.

I used to write programs using BASIC-Plus-2 on TOPS-20 or BASIC Plus on RSTS back in the day (can't remember which) to experiment with the GIGI. The GIGI isn't an OS so there wouldn't be any way to emulate it on SIMH (unless I'm totally mistaken). The ReGIS Handbook (linked above) on page 1-4...

My hat is off to you for being able to get these to work. As someone who used these a lot back in the 1980s, I always considered them terrible. Had many problems with them even when the tapes and drives were brand new.

X2 on the DEC-20 day. Does that hardware run TOPS-20? Love to see one that did, in the orange color.

Just for fun I'd like to be able to access an instance of RT-11 running on one of my home servers, under simh. That server is already set up for remote connectivity as it also functions as my media server (using port forwarding on my router). I guess I'm wondering if there's a way to connect...

We had one of those at work, used it for printer sharing. For what it was it worked very well (at the time, Windows 3.0). Multiple users could send plots to a plotter and the Black Box device would switch between jobs (PCs) and correctly send plots to the single plotter.

I have a device named DECserver on my network as well. It runs RT-11 under simh and a media server. Didn't know there was a real hardware thing with that name!

None of that is along the lines of what I'm remembering, but thanks.

Possibly, see my update post just above.

The scenario was this: you had a (non-DEC) task called EDITAA.tsk (presumably home-grown) that would interpret the scripts (.MSK files) and prompt the user, validate some of the input, and update or add fields to the database. So if your database table was called SCORES, EDITAA (command EDIT)...

I have in my memory examples of a scripting language we used to use on our PDP-11's running RSX11M. These"programs" were used to drive database entry using either video terminals or printers w/keyboards. In other words, these scripts were the editing facility for the database tables. I'm...

Does anyone besides me miss the ability to have multiple files with the same name? Drives me crazy that we cannot do this on Windows or Linux. I'm referring to this: JOHNSDOC.TXT;1 JOHNSDOC.TXT;2 JOHNSDOC.TXT;3 JOHNSDOC.TXT;4 JOHNSDOC.TXT;5 It's especially annoying when you copy and paste a...

That is radically impressive!

So you'll want to create (or copy from someone else) initialization files that configure the system. On my linux box, I open a command prompt, type $cd DEC then $pdp11 RT11FB.ini