We're restoring an old Data General Eclipse MV/7800XP with AOS/VS and MV/UX
asb...@gmail.com
Hi,
we're the Poetry Hacklab - Freaknet medialab and, working at our
computer
museum, we started restoring an old Eclipse system.
It has AOS/VS 7.69.00.13 and MV/UX
due to the total lack of informations about those systems, we decided
to put
online all the material we can download from the system, with some
funny
images and some HOWTO about the machine:
into the "stuff" section there are many help files and things. Here
you can also find the MICROCODE (our tape is destroyed, this microcode
came from our hard disk)
WE NEED HELP about hardware, tapes, and we also need a copy, o a dd
image, of the AOS/VS installation tapes!!!
we don't have the original AOS/VS tapes, we only have it installed on
the hard disk.
we have also DG/UX original tapes and some other things. We're trying
to dump EVERYTHING to put online for other users...
ANY HELP/HINT is appreciated!!!
tnx
asbesto (at) freaknet (point) org
Mike Dorn
install tape using the systape macro. Not so for the microcode tape,
unfortunately. It was easy to copy just the code from tape to disk, but you
need more than just that one file to make a bootable tape. (Sorry, my
collection doesn't include a 7800, so I don't have one I can copy for you.)
Thierry Wautelet
<1125859662.3...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
<asb...@gmail.com> wrote (écrivait) :
> due to the total lack of informations about those systems, we decided
> to put
> online all the material we can download from the system, with some
> funny
> images and some HOWTO about the machine:
I still have a running MV7800 at work, but it'll finally be
put out of work one of these days. It's running Meditech
sheduling system.
http://www.twautele.easynet.be/dg.jpg
Don't forget that they may be some copyright issue about
putting DG things online (not photo obviously).
I remember we put DG/UX on an MV4000 once but it was very
slow (not that the MV4000 was fast :-).
Still used all day an MV35000_6 (AOS/VS_II TPMS) in all it's glory :-)
Thierry
Tim Boyer
Get in touch with Bruce Ray at Wild Hare computers -
http://www.wildharecomputers.com/. He's saving everything....
--
tim boyer
t...@denmantire.com
Michael Meissner
That brings back memories. I wrote the front end for the AOS/VS, MV/UX, and
DG/UX C compilers (I don't have any thing from those days, so I can't help
you). Good luck -- the MV/Eclipse was one of the most C hostile machines out
there, mostly due to having two separate pointer formats.
--
Michael Meissner
email: mrm...@the-meissners.org
http://www.the-meissners.org
Julie Warden
news:m3k6enf...@glinda.the-meissners.org:
>
> That brings back memories. I wrote the front end for the AOS/VS,
> MV/UX, and DG/UX C compilers (I don't have any thing from those days,
> so I can't help you). Good luck -- the MV/Eclipse was one of the most
> C hostile machines out there, mostly due to having two separate
> pointer formats.
>
I have some DG internal stuff - namely the "Pink" editor, which is the
best editor I have ever seen. Maybe a couple of other tapes of stuff. All
this stuff came from an MV1000, so it should run fine on any of the
AOS/VS machines. Give me an address, and if you're not on Pluto I may get
off my butt and send you the stuff. I may have had some manuals too. I
know I had the AOS/VS command line quick reference card.
Speaking of pointers: We were writing a system that used COBOL screens
and PL/1-C backend and wanted a common error screen. We used a COBOL
object to bind into our code, but it blew up when we tested it from PL/1.
This guy explained that D/G COBOL used byte pointers, and that PL/1 used
word pointers, so we just had to convert that pointer to byte and voila!
I remember thinking "how the Hell would anyone know that?"!
Good luck, I went from D/G to 2 years in Wang Hell - those guys wrote a
program where you had to enter the same information twice - hahaha!
Email me your address.
Julie