Introduction...

Hi all,

I just thought I'd write a quick note to introduce myself as I've just
subscribed. I recently purchased a VAXstation 4000/90 and am in the process
of installing OpenVMS via the hobbiest licence program. I'd also very much
like to install and use Unix, and it appears that OpenBSD is the most stable
and well supported of the Unixen for this platform. I've had a long term
fascination with the VAX platform (obviously I'm getting old!) and am
especially interested in VAX Macro/Assembler programming. I would therefore
welcome any suggestions of where I might practice this on a 'real world'
problem. I am a long term user of both Unix and VMS, I programmed VAX Macro
on and off about 10 years ago for a software house, and as I am almost
exclusively now programming Java and XSL for a living thought it would be
nice to get 'back to my roots'. I have done low-level C programming on Unix
in a previous incarnation as well. 

As a side line, and a totally unrelated issue but one that someone on this
list could well help me with - I need to purchase another SCSI hard disk to
use as a system disk - I tried a cheap 9.1GB SCA drive via an 80-50 pin
adaptor but am not having a lot of luck (Is this because SCA is a brain-dead
form of SCSI? The VAX does recognise the drive at PROM level, albeit as only
a 500-ish MG drive, but from OpenVMS it doesn't appear in the SHOW DEV
list). Would I be more successful with a 68-pin non-SCA drive, or would I be
better off looking out for a native 50-pin drive?

Many thanks for the help,

Regards,

Mark Wickens.



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