KansasFest 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Steven Weyhrich (a2history) via cctalk
For your interest: MARCH 8, 2019 — KansasFest 2019, the 31st annual Apple II convention, is scheduled for July 16 – 21 in Kansas City, Missouri. Mark Pelczarski of Penguin Software, well-known for numerous graphics utilities, books, and games, will join us with a keynote presentation to celebra

Re: DECnet License for older VAX VMS

2019-03-09 Thread Matt Burke via cctalk
On 07/03/2019 03:21, BGeezer via cctalk wrote: > Yes, I can see now that they are different. If I can't find a license > tape I'll probably put on 5.5 which I have as well. In fact I have > V1.0 on up. I'm running two Simh instances on each Raspberry Pi all > clustered and running DECnet and TCP/IP

Re: Unix tools, Bill Webb, UBC, TRIUMF

2019-03-09 Thread Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
I used to work at UBC in Pharmacology in the 1980's and had a few talks with Bill Webb about Unix but, unfortunately, for the data acquisition we were doing Unix was far too slow and I did everything in optimized PDP-11 assembler. Of course, we didn't have a PDP-11/45 like Bill had and had t