Andy Piercy
2018-02-08 16:23:54 UTC
OK here is something rare for you to consider!
I have a number of Masscomp Multibus boards and 2 * Masscomp MC5500
Multibus back planes one with the card cage complete, I'm thinking of
listing on E-Pay.
I can post a full list of boards, but they are mostly MC5500 series so 68K
based.
I also have the RTU OS on floppies so you may be able to create a complete
working system all be it in an open card cage build.
But wanted to see if there is any interest here so please let me know off
list if any of you are interested.
I am looking to recover what I paid for the parts so this is not free
unfortunately.
I am based in the UK but am willing to ship.,
Thanks,
Andy.
staff[...]"
Or, in the case of my alma mater until a few years ago, the entire
student body...
That would have been a fun one to know about back in the day. For
starters, I could have kicked off all the rest of the buggers who were
trying to register for classes, ensuring I could get my desired
classes myself.
(This wasn't 1989, this was RIT from 2005 to 2010. They had IIRC 4
vaxen and 4 Alpha boxes running VMS in a cluster. You'd pick one, log
in, then run the program which connected you to the *offsite class
registration mainframe*. The other options for class registration were
an automated phone system and a perpetually-overloaded web site, so
"the VAX" as people called it was still the fastest option. Most of
the other university IT facilities were quite good, honest; for
instance, even the residence halls got routable IPv4 addresses with
only incoming port 25 filtered)
john
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I have a number of Masscomp Multibus boards and 2 * Masscomp MC5500
Multibus back planes one with the card cage complete, I'm thinking of
listing on E-Pay.
I can post a full list of boards, but they are mostly MC5500 series so 68K
based.
I also have the RTU OS on floppies so you may be able to create a complete
working system all be it in an open card cage build.
But wanted to see if there is any interest here so please let me know off
list if any of you are interested.
I am looking to recover what I paid for the parts so this is not free
unfortunately.
I am based in the UK but am willing to ship.,
Thanks,
Andy.
oops.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/06/openvms_vulnerability/
"Since OpenVMS installations tend to only grant access to trustedhttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/06/openvms_vulnerability/
staff[...]"
Or, in the case of my alma mater until a few years ago, the entire
student body...
That would have been a fun one to know about back in the day. For
starters, I could have kicked off all the rest of the buggers who were
trying to register for classes, ensuring I could get my desired
classes myself.
(This wasn't 1989, this was RIT from 2005 to 2010. They had IIRC 4
vaxen and 4 Alpha boxes running VMS in a cluster. You'd pick one, log
in, then run the program which connected you to the *offsite class
registration mainframe*. The other options for class registration were
an automated phone system and a perpetually-overloaded web site, so
"the VAX" as people called it was still the fastest option. Most of
the other university IT facilities were quite good, honest; for
instance, even the residence halls got routable IPv4 addresses with
only incoming port 25 filtered)
john
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