This is Aaron Sakovich's OpenVMS Hobby Site, where I stash my thoughts and ramblings and technical notes regarding my fav OS: OpenVMS. OpenVMS rocks. It's rock solid, reliable, secure, uncrackable, and incredibly robust. I've been hacking OpenVMS, and it's precursor, VMS, for well over 20 years now, and it's still going strong. My home is run by it, as are this and many other web pages.
I'm an HP certified professional, with both my ASE and CSA. My first VMS box was an 11/750 back in mid '84, running VMS v3.something. Boy, that was a long time ago...
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you can find something useful here.
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This item has a little bit of a story behind it. According to the story I was told, it was designed by engineers.
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Here's another Digital souvenir I picked up many years ago. Like Digital computers, it has proven to be very rugged and robust, seen much use, and lasted a long time.
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Like many others, I subscribe to a variety of podcasts on a variety of topics. This morning, I listened to this week's episode of the MacCast which, it turns out, was entirely an interview with one person.
Avram Miller was the project manager for the DEC Pro 350 PC back in the early 80's. While the interview was interesting to listen to, I found myself poking around his blog. There, I found a real gem, in an article entitled Digital Equipment Movie about the Professional Computer Series, 1983. This previously unreleased video, Personal Challenge, (43 minutes) documented the birth of the DEC PC family, specifically focusing on the Pro 350.
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As a launching point for what I hope to be a continuing series, here's My Digital Collection, the various trinkets, nick-nacks, and other marketing goodies I collected over the years.
To start off with, I'll go with my favorite item: my stoneware coffee mugs. I've got 4 of these; I use them every single day and they don't have a single nick.
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I've had an HP LaserJet 3050 multifunction printer in my home office for quite some time now. This USB printer was chosen because it supports PCL-6 and Postscript, making it a great option for integrating with my Windows laptop, as well as printing from specialized apps on VMS via a SSH tunnel through my laptop (all I had to do was share the printer using LPD under Windows, then point the tunnel to the to the right port on the PC. Whenever I'm logged in, I can print from my work systems.)
But today, I wanted to be able to print from my home Hobbyist AlphaServer.
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So, you've got to make an ISO-9660 compatible CD for whatever reason. In my case, I've got to upgrade some Itaniums, and they need firmware updates, too.
I found that there's plenty of documentation (well, if you can count as high as 1) for the CDRecord.com procedure (specifically, @CDRecord Help), but not much on actually using Sys$System:CDRecord.exe, and practically none for using that to burn what's commonly called an ISO image file.
But I think I've figured out how.
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$ Checksum login.com /Algorithm=md5 /Show=data
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Introduced with OpenVMS v7.3-2:
$ Set Device /Reset=Error_Count
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If Init/Erase isn't sufficient, this does a triple pass over your media with varying patterns (you can even specify the pattern):
$ Analyze /Media /Exercise=Full
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$ Show image(Only available on Alpha & IA64.)
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$ Exit %x34b4(more)
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$ Accounting/Status=-10000001/User=ACCOUNT/Process=Batch
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I don't know why, but...
$ exit 2928
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$ ... f$fao("!%D",0)
The trick here being that you need to include the 0 (zero)! f$fao("!%D") is nonsensical!
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