Alisoncc wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:19 am
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:33 am
Twas a PDP 11 linked to a herd of "VAXen" and a subnet of very early IBM PC's running a primitive telnet emulator
Interfacing IBM's SNA to DEC's DDCMP. So much fun, t'was. This all preceeded TCP/IP. Never reckoned TCP/IP would come to anything.
Excuse digression into IT stuff. Aviation is just so boring these days. Don't know anyone who is still in the industry. Do know someone who has just started a business manufacturing donkey whips.
By the stage the IBM System 38, which was very much part of IBM's System Network Architecture, came onto the market they had bundled a handy little SNA compliant tool called PC Support (now i-Series Client Access) to provide inter connectivity with the PC. One of the nice additional features this tool was the ability to link using an IP address to networks running TCP/IP. PC Support was TCP/IP compliant but wasn't TCP/IP per se (OSI 7 level model and all that good stuff). My plan was to link from the PC network running PC Support to the PDP-11 using TCP/IP and thence to the VAX machines on that network running DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS. Great fun and it worked, my faux pas on the 16 bit interface program on the PDP-11 notwithstanding.
I made a living making odd machines talk to each other and in my time made CNC machines talk to SNA compliant AS/400's and even BBC Micros in a hydro lab talk to machines on a SNA compliant network, the latter effort using 6250 assembler on the BBC machines All great fun as you say.
Perhaps we should set up a nerd's corner to gather and share IT war stories. I personally would love it.
Alternatively we could just set up Bondage Corner and go the whip route as Boac implied!