The new VAX is alive!

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 24 21:50:49 2001

> After connecting the VT320 to the VAX, I reset the system password.
> Fortunately, this VAX has the "real VMS" (TM) for VAXen on it:
> VAX/VMS, and it's a reasonably recent version: 5.5, which was close to
> the lastest version of VMS back when I last worked with a VAX for an
> employer, back around 1992. :-)

Nothing wrong with newer versions, personally I prefer running 7.2 on my
VAXen, though I do keep one at 5.5 for compiles. Still for systems without
a lot of RAM V5.5-2 choice.

> This far, I haven't noticed anything truly remarkable with regards to
> software, although at first glance, it looks like nothing is missing.
> Fortunately, someone installed kermit, so that will make things,
> such as installing TCP/IP, easier. :-)

You've a couple choices with VMS 5.5, the easiest is the freeware stack
CMUIP, I used it before the V2 Hobbyist program. I'd recommend a TCPIP
stack from Process software, one or both supports V5.5-2.

> Also, there's a mention of SQL in one of the text files that I looked
> through, although I didn't notice any database software installed; of
> course, I don't know the names of databases using SQL for VAXen.

Most likely either RDB or Oracle.

> DECnet is installed and apparently configured, so I guess this means
> that I can use my DEC terminal server with this machine... do I need
> to do anything other than connect the terminal server to the VAX and
> then use it? I know nothing about DECnet.

Try saying 'connect {hostname}' on the terminal server, and see what
happens. If that doesn't work, you might need to turn on the software that
is needed for LAT.

> Of course, there's still the little matter of no tape drive being
> installed in this system, which is not a good thing. I have a TK70
> and a TK50, along with a TKQ70 board.

What kind of disk interfaces does it have? For that matter, what model is
this you're talking about? I never got a chance to look at the first
message you posted on this system.

                        Zane
Received on Tue Jul 24 2001 - 21:50:49 BST