Monthly Archives: December 2024

Page 23, here. So I could install my RSTS/E with the tape drives. And the software (recreation) that read in client tapes we would receive at my work. Very cool!

Not the newest from github. But the latest “wget” version. They say the github is beta… maybe later. Noticed a few changes. No RPi4 detected

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It’s been a few hours now.

Until I tried this I didn’t even know I could do this. I assumed my laptop and Pi, were on different networks. Because I have 2 different modem/routers. I can’t see my PiDP-11/70s lights from my desktop. So I’m missing more than half the enjoyment. Didn’t work!bill@bill-MS-7B79:~$ sudo arp-scan –interface=wlx0014d1e078d1 –localnetWARNING: Could not obtain IP …

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I read on Slashdot “To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good”. I wanted it to be true. But it wasn’t for me. I guess cause I’m not logging on from WordPress.org. I happen to like Pineapple and Ham on a pizza… Hawaiian pizza.

It’s simple in hindsight. But I didn’t know how to do it, until I dug into it today. No problem watching the idle program program run it’s light pattern on the PiDP-11 hardware, without SSHing into the Pi… just start the Pi. But what if you want to see a real OSs light pattern? Funny, …

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Keys I use all the time

They just keep coming… “Is This the Ultimate One-Core Workstation? The PDP-11/73 – From Wargames to Zork!”. I think this brings his count to 10. In this video he says he biked over to the Universities computer lab on weekends, where he had a RSTS/E account. And he showed the output of his first Basic …

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