User:Vaxorcist - Revision history

Vaxorcist: Added a little riddle ...

2023-08-26T17:21:12Z

Added a little riddle ...

Vaxorcist: fixed typo

2023-03-16T17:35:30Z

fixed typo

Vaxorcist: Some links added

2022-07-02T11:51:10Z

Some links added

Vaxorcist at 20:48, 22 May 2022

2022-05-22T20:48:18Z

Vaxorcist: My personal story (some of it)

2022-05-22T20:38:27Z

My personal story (some of it)

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Some facts about me:

I once was a VMS System Administrator from VMS V5.0 to V6.2.

When I left my admin job (I had to, sadly) I could take three little VAXen with me as a souvenir, a MicroVAX II and two VAXstation 2000s.

That's how my personal story of the "VAXorcist" began ...
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Since then I'm collecting DEC Hardware, Software, and Manuals, especially (Micro)VAX and VMS.

A couple of years ago I was lucky to find all VMS V3.x versions on a company's ftp server. They are no longer there, so it was a good idea to make some personal "backup".

A little later I was offered a set of VMS V4.x manuals for very little money.

When I collected the manuals from the previous owner I found out that a nearly complete set of VMS V3 manuals was included as well, lucky me!

I did not buy a set of VMS V2.x manuals from abroad, but I could persuade the owner to scan all manuals prior to sale.

I retouched all scans, created pdfs and OCRd them and added TOCs as pdf bookmarks.
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I was a very special day for me when then first "classic" VAX simh simulator was available.
Finally I could try out my "old" (or rather "ancient") VMS versions!

Later some VMS versions V1 and V2 () found their way to me.

It's still a long way to go, especially a lot of "Layered Software" is still missing, and VMS V2 software is still a "problem child".

Last but not least it was my idea to develop the DEC DMC11 [[DDCMP]] network interface in simh.

I did not do the programming, but I motivated a nice English programmer to do it, and I did the testing together with him.

Later Mark Pizzolato took the project over and maintains it up to now (besides a huge lot of other simh enhancements).

Thank you Mark!

Another thank you to Matt Burke who wrote several other VAX simh simulators!
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Please, if you've got old VMS software to contribute, please let me know.

I'll add a list of the most wanted items later.

The VAXorcist

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 I retouched all scans, created pdfs and OCRd them and added TOCs as pdf bookmarks.
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-I was a very special day for me when then first "classic" VAX simh simulator for the [[VAX-11/780]] was available.
+It was a very special day for me when then first "classic" VAX simh simulator for the [[VAX-11/780]] was available.
 Finally I could try out my "old" (or rather "ancient") VMS versions!

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 Some facts about me:
-I once was a VMS System Administrator from VMS V5.0 to V6.2.
+I once was a [[VMS]] System Administrator from VMS V5.0 to V6.2.
-When I left my admin job (I had to, sadly) I could take three little VAXen with me as a souvenir, a MicroVAX II and two VAXstation 2000s.
+When I left my admin job (I had to, sadly) I could take three little VAXen with me as a souvenir, a [[MicroVAX II]] and two [[VAXstation 2000]]s.
 That's how my personal story of the "VAXorcist" began ...
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-Since then I'm collecting DEC Hardware, Software, and Manuals, especially (Micro)VAX and VMS.
+Since then I'm collecting [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] Hardware, Software, and Manuals, especially (Micro)[[VAX]] and VMS.
 A couple of years ago I was lucky to find all VMS V3.x versions on a company's ftp server. They are no longer there, so it was a good idea to make some personal "backup".
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 It's still a long way to go, especially a lot of "Layered Software" is still missing, and VMS V2 software is still a "problem child".
-Last but not least it was my idea to develop the DEC DMC11 [[DDCMP]] network interface in simh.
+Last but not least it was my idea to develop the DEC [[DMC11 Synchronous Serial Controller|DMC11]] [[DDCMP]] network interface in simh.
 I did not do the programming, but I motivated a nice English programmer to do it, and I did the testing together with him.