[Info-vax] InfoServer 150

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/27/19 7:51 PM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 January 2019 23:49:37 UTC, Bill Gunshannon  wrote:
>> I am getting real close to giving up on this.
>>
>> I just decided to take a look at the contents of the
>> images provided in Freeware 8.0 Infoserver.
>>
>> 3 of them are MSDOS floppy images.
>> 4 of them have the statement "IS_KEY_DISK" in the beginning of the
>> img.
>>
>> And that leaves two.
>>
>> VTX Software V2.1
>> InfoServer/VMS
>> ag-pjjhh-be.img
>>
>> InfoServer/VMS V3.5
>> ag-r7lfa-bs.img
>>
>> Both of these have statements in the beginning of the image as well.
>>
>> VXT021          is not a system disk
>>
>> IS_V35          is not a system disk
>>
>> Is it just me or wold this mean none of them are bootable.  And, if
>> that is the case, how does one do an initial load of an Infoserver?
>>
>> There are other anomalies.  Like the readme says VTX Software V2.1
>> but the disklabel is VXT021.  Is there no one here who ever created
>> an Infoserver 150 from scratch?  Did they always come from DEC with
>> all the software loaded and could only be reloaded by a Service Tech
>> from DEC?  Are there no Service Techs here to answer this question?
>>
>> bill
> 
> Wow, somebody finally noticed that VTX and VXT aren't the same.
> 
> The reference to VTX is a presumably a persistent trypo in the
> freeware readme in question (and apparently elsewhere too, see
> below).
> 
> There was a DEC product called VTX,but it's of little relevance
> in this discussion. Mind you, this discussion... no, let's not
> go there.
> 
> Potentially relevant discussion, with tryping error in product
> name:
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?23342-DEC-VTX-2000-and-vtx2000-sys
> 
> Relevant VXT and Infoserver documents, product name correct,
> might include:
> https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VXT2000
> 
> https://archive.org/details/h42_DEC_VXT_2000_Windowing_Terminal_User_Information
> 
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ethernet/infoserver/AA-PJXJC-TE_InfoServer_System_Operations_Guide_Oct94.pdf
> 
> and various related.
> 
> Anyway, if it's not working for you, you're probably
> holding it wrong, or it's got a virus, or something along
> those lines. Have you tried switching it off and on again?
> 

Been on and off several dozen times so far.  No luck with that.

bill