What about TSX+ ? was Re: Where can I get DECmail-11?

[Lyle Bickley]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 02:47, gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:
> On a similar note, I tried to contact S and H about a licence for my
> install of TSX+ on my PDP-11.  I've got install disks for up to 6.4 (I
> think, need to check) but not the instructions and release notes.  I sent
> a couple of emails asking if they would either say it was cool for me to
> keep it, or ask me to buy a licence (because I buy software that I use,
> even if it is for toys).  I never ever got a response.
>
> So I don't know if they are just keeping quiet because they are ignoring
> me, or keeping quiet because they don't care about TSX+ for the PDP-11 any
> more (they do sell an i386 version, it seems).  I don't want to give out
> copies of the disks I have either, unless I know it's cool with them.
>
> Gordon.

I contacted S&H ("Harry Sanders" <hsanders at sandh.com>) in April, 2004 and 
asked if I could have a copy of the "final" version of TSX-Plus to "play 
with" as a collector on a real PDP-11.  We had a great conversation - and he 
emailed me a "master" ZIP file containing:

-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users   61682 2001-07-11 10:33 COBOL_P1.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users   64086 2001-07-11 10:33 COBOL_P2.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users  105312 2001-07-11 10:34 COBOL_P3.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users   21025 2001-07-11 10:31 RTSORT.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users  102797 2001-07-06 17:18 TSDIS1.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users  127593 2001-07-06 17:19 TSDIS2.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users  131433 2001-07-06 17:19 TSDIS3.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users  115122 2001-07-06 17:20 TSDIS4.ZIP
-rw-r--r--  1 lpb users  959468 2001-07-13 13:49 TSXPDOCS.ZIP

These ZIPs contain the TSX Plus system files, docs, applications, etc.  I also 
found out the they "lost" the source code to TSX Plus when changing system 
(IIRC).

You can contact Harry (email above) or I'll be glad to contact him again to 
see if I can generally release the "TSX.ZIP" he sent me (If others are 
interested).

Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com

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