It all started when I was a sophmore at Cedar Falls High School in 75. I had been doing Fortran programming the previous year when a math teacher let me...
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Bob Brown
kb9lfr
Apr 3, 2005 11:28 pm
Welcome! Feel free to upload any/all code to the tardis (the ‘mickey’ system). (I do regular backups and keep it up 24x7). If you want a private account...
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Bob Brown
kb9lfr
Apr 15, 2005 1:11 pm
The tardis system (mickey.ath.cx) will be down during the day tomorrow (Saturday April 16th). I am having the main electrical panel replaced so all power will...
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mgemeny
Apr 15, 2005 2:18 pm
Bob, Yes, the power required for an HP2000 Access system can be substantial. The 2100 CPU's with their real Core memory sure suck a lot of juice. Remember also...
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Bob Brown
kb9lfr
Apr 15, 2005 5:42 pm
... It would be cool (or hot) to have a real datacenter with a real hp2000 running in it…but the emulator is much better for the environment! (I’d love to...
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Bob Brown
kb9lfr
Apr 16, 2005 7:37 pm
Enjoy again…my power upgrade is complete :-) -Bob -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database:...
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ja_madhavan
Apr 18, 2005 7:11 am
Hi All, Would you be able to send me HP-UX/COBOL (MF COBOL) material/help in the form of soft copy. Even any websites which talks about the HP-UX/COBOL is also...
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vbriel
Apr 22, 2005 9:30 pm
Hey, does anybody have a scrap (non-functional) 21MX processor shell available? I'd prefer if the front panel still looked good. I've got a project involving...
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dtpi_pappas
Apr 29, 2005 5:48 pm
Has anyone had any luck getting 2000 Access running on SIMH version 3.3-2? It can get it to run under 2.10-3 using Mike's workshop (thanks, Mike!), but the...
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dtpi_pappas
Apr 29, 2005 5:56 pm
I can get a 2000 Access simulation running quite well using Mike's 2000 Access workshop on my laptop, but it is fairly touch and go using my desktop system....
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mgemeny
Apr 29, 2005 6:57 pm
Bob and I have both has success with 3.3-1 but I have had problems with 3.3-2 as well. 3.4 should be out soon, if that has the same problems I'll try to make...
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dtpi_pappas
Apr 29, 2005 7:31 pm
3.3-1 works like a charm. I am going to try to use the 7920 drives to create a system with more disk space. Don't know if this version will solve the...
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dtpi_pappas
May 3, 2005 3:29 pm
Has anyone looked into what it would take to simulate a 32-port system under SIMH? The existing simulator only seems to support one MUX. My thought was to...
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Bob Brown
kb9lfr
May 3, 2005 11:12 pm
I haven’t focused on it since the existing setup allows several simultaneous users…I’m not sure we’d need to be able to emulate A full 32-port system...
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dtpi_pappas
May 4, 2005 2:23 pm
Purely for the fun it! I agree that this is pretty low priority as I can't picture needing to support more than 16 users any time soon. On a more pertinent...
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mgemeny
May 6, 2005 8:26 pm
First, I would like to extend a warm welcome to some of our new members. Please feel free to tell us a bit about your interest in the HP2000 or related...
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vbriel
May 7, 2005 8:11 pm
... the ... Hi Mike, I used Access back in the mid 70's at my Jr. High in San Diego. When I started highschool I thought I'd use it there too but quickly found...
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dtpi_pappas
May 9, 2005 2:10 am
I was first exposed to timeshare computing in the '70s on an HP2000/Access system. I was quite fascinated with the concept of a multi-user computer system...
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dtpi_pappas
May 9, 2005 2:23 am
Mike -- I'm working on getting the 2000 Access simulator up and running under Solaris using SIMH 3.4. It looks like the IOP can't get the interlink to create...
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dtpi_pappas
May 9, 2005 3:23 am
OK -- I wasn't paying close enough attention to what it was doing. Looks like the IPL "wait" code doesn't work properly under UNIX. Also didn't recognize that...
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mgemeny
May 9, 2005 6:13 pm
Vince asked: Any reason why there is no lowercase characters in my copy? (Sorry Bill that was Vince's question I answered off list.) On your lower case...
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vbriel
May 10, 2005 5:35 pm
... That was the trick! Thanks....
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dtpi_pappas
May 14, 2005 9:07 pm
I was able to get a configuration running under Solaris. My guess is that it would run under Linux as well, but I haven't had a chance to test it yet. If...
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vbriel
May 22, 2005 1:21 pm
If anybody wants to run a real vintage terminal like I do off the SIMH server there is an easy way to do this. There is a program called Remap pro and it port...
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Jay West
classiccmp1024
Jun 3, 2005 1:44 am
Greetings. I've been meaning to make it over to this group for ages at the behest of Mr. Gemeny. I finally made it! My name is Jay West, and I run the...
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bub7734
Jun 14, 2005 8:36 pm
Hi All, I've been putzing about with the 2000E and 2000F images, and they appear to work just dandy with simh 3.4-0 on my FleaBSD system. Are there any hib or...
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mgemeny
Jun 15, 2005 2:37 am
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to both Jay and Scott. Jay is a great guy I've known for years now, with a lot of experience with real hardware and...
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Jay West
classiccmp1024
Jun 17, 2005 12:55 am
I have a running 2000E system, and it takes 3 paper tapes to load. However, in my BOX-O-TAPES (paper tape), I have a set of tapes that I do NOT know what they...
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mgemeny
Jun 17, 2005 5:33 pm
Jay, You did stir up a bit of dust in some rusty old synapses in my head. Command Tape, that's very "commanding" name. 02000-90075 did not Google ether, and...
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Jay West
classiccmp1024
Jun 17, 2005 11:58 pm
Mike wrote.... ... As I said in my post.... these "2000E Command Tapes" are definitely not the install/system tapes for 2000E. I compared the first foot or so...
