Re: Teen caught in the wrong decade: VMS today

On 28 Dec 2005 15:05:13 -0800, Mike  Nolan <mpnolan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Greetings.

I'm 18 and a geek, and I've often wished that I had grown up in the
'80s rather than the late '90s. I read stories by more elder geeks
about their first programming experiences with BASIC on X old machine
at their grandpa's house, and I read textfiles.com, and everything just
seemed more fun back then. Today, it seems like software has gotten so
complex that it's a lot more work to see the whole system, to feel like
you're almost a few steps behind knowing everything :).

Since I don't have a time machine yet, I've decided to instead bring
those times to me. VMS interests me, but all I have around are x86
machines. So I'm wondering if you guys have any recommendations on
hardware I could buy and where to do it.

I'd like to run a server with Telnet/SSH access so that I can play with
it from school or give friends accounts. A webserver would be cool,
too--maybe this OSU thing that my university runs :P. Otherwise, my
needs aren't too complex. I'll probably mostly be using it in text
mode.

It would be nice to only spend around $100, but that's probably a pipe
dream.

You can get a VAX emulator from http://simh.trailing-edge.com, a hobbyists
license for VMS at http://www.encompassus.org and a Hobbyist's license
to PL/I at www.kednos.com SSH is not available from HP, but Process Software,
don't know if they have Hobbyist licenses www.process.com. For Web server
you can use WASD http://wasd.vms.com.au/, runs on both VAX and Alpha and a
bunch of associated stuff (Alpha only) at
http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/kits/axp/
and wget from http://antinode.org/dec/sw/wget.html

I have a couple of unused Alphastations to which you are welcome.

Tom





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