Now all you need do is go to
http://www.montagar.com, join the DECUS
user's group and get your OpenVMS cdrom. It contains things like TCP/IP
and quite a few 'layered' products such as Basic, Fortran, Cobol,
etcetera.
Regards,
Jeff
In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107242214280.11511-100000_at_smarty.smart.net>, on
07/24/01
at 10:45 PM, "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_smart.net> said:
>This afternoon, I ordered, and then picked up, a cable with MMJ
>connectors on it from Control Cable (they're in Woodlawn, MD) - a nice
>place to deal with; they specialize in cabling and related products, and
>what they sell appears to be of very good quality. The cost of the
>assembled cable was only a few cents different from their cost for a
>cable and two MMJ connectors, and was under US$5; of course, I had to pay
>US$5 extra since the order was under US$50, but that was no worse than
>shipping would have been if I'd ordered them from elsewhere.
>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. :-)
>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. :-)
>There appears to be a fair amount of audio software, which I think may
>all be for use with that DECVoice system; text to voice software, for
>example. Since I don't have a T1 telephone connection, alas, it appears
>that I'm not going to be able to use this DECVoice hardware, and the
>audio software on this machine.
>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.
>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.
>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.
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