I have many 8mm tapes. A few are new. First comers get new ones.
I have a few 8mm cleaning cassettes
I have about a dozen DLT-II tapes.
I have some Ultrium LTO fibre-channel SCSI drives that were removed
from a tape-mounting robot several years ago. I never used them in my
computers. The mounting bracket for one was modified to have an
internal power supply -- which might be inadequate. I have two
Fujifilm 200/400 GB Ultrium 2 LTO tapes.
I have a 5.25" floppy drive.
Any of these are yours for the price of shipping; local pickup is OK
too.
Van Snyder
van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net
La Crescenta, CA
Some quick questions on fixing up a TU58:
1) Can I plug it straight into a pdp11/23+ CPU with a 10 pin ribbon cable?
2) Can I hook the 10 pin ribbon cable on it into a normal 11/23 or 11/73
bulkhead to get RS232 for hooking up to a PDT11?
3) Can the PDT11 handle anything faster than 2400 baud on the extension
ports? Can it do faster speeds in one direction?
4) Is there any possible use for this thing :-)
CZ
I know this is a long shot, but I just acquired an SSM SB1 S-100
board with no chips. Everything on the board is easy to source
but the SSM2000 chip. Does anyone have one for sale or know
where to get one?
Thanks,
Bill S.
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Next week I will be in the Huntsville, Al, USA area for an entire day with no commitments. Does anyone have recommendations on how to spend my day? I have been to the space and rocket museum several times. Any computer museums or displays, especially of space-related equipment? Any good surplus stores? All suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Will
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
The 11/24 System Technical Manual says that the terminator (M9302 or M9312)
must be installed in the last slot (slot 9) of the backplane, and that all
empty slots must have a grant card. What I am not clear on is what they mean
by an "empty" slot. Specifically, if I have the CPU, the M7134 memory map
and a memory board installed in slots 1-3 and then nothing else except the
terminator in slot 9, does this mean I have to install grant cards in slots
4-8?
My guess is that this isn't a requirement because the grant cards go in rows
C and D while the terminator is rows A and B, but I am hoping someone can
confirm this for me please?
Thanks
Rob
Syncrotech sent me the demo version of Elan Memory Card Explorer version
3.21 which is matched for use with the Elan P423 PCMCIA Card Reader/Writer
and in the Windows XP environment.
The demo version has 30 days use to try it in set-up mode, but only 5
"lives" in full function mode. To make it work again I may have to use a
backed up version of my Registry, or re-install WinXP, mb drivers, etc.
Previously with Ricoh's XP v1.01 incarnate memory block setting of (E8)
E800-EBFF, the program would start-up and see the Linear Flash Card.
Now with Elan's version 3.21 not only does that memory block not work but
none of the other choices listed in Ricoh's manual which states:
By default, MCE requires the exclusive use of a block of real mode memory at
linear address d0000H to d3fffH. If MCERICOH - XP does not detect the flash
memory card with the default memory block settings, this indicates that the
default memory block is already in use. Try one of the following settings:
(D0) D000-D3FF (default) (E0) E000-E3FF
(D4) D400-D7FF (E4) E400-E7FF
(D8) D800-DBFF (E8) E800-EBFF
(DC) DC00-DFFF (EC) EC00-EFFF
In the Elan MCE op guide which is from 1999 and doesn't completely cover up
to v3.21 from 2005 it states:
"wXX"
XX=base memory address for card operations e.g. "wD8" will use D8000h as a
base address. XX can be C0 to EF for most PCs. Default is D0. The 4K region
from address chosen must be "free".
Lastly in the txt file with the MCE v3.21 installation files it is stated:
VERSION 3-13
* This function now works in the same way for all versions of Windows
* This function should be called before any other (Except
MCE_Customisations). It not only checks memory for use it registers the
memory for exclusive use by our program. It also allows the library function
to initialize ready for card memory accesses.
* Failure to initialize successfully using this function will result in NT4
access violation messages during library function calls.
* The MCE_CheckWindow function does 2 tasks
-It registers the memory window with Windows. A handle to this memory
window is saved in MCELIB for MCELIB use.
-It tests the memory window allocated to check that it is unused.
* Function MCE_ReleaseWindow() can be used to de-allocate the handle.
(when multiple MCE_CheckWindow()s calls are made use MCE_ReleaseWindow()
before the next MCE_CheckWindow())
* Function MCE_Restore() also deallocates this handle as part of the MCELIB
closedown operations.
Inputs: DWORD
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Used to pass in the memory window address for the PCIC card controller to
use. The value passed in will be used as the memory address in subsequent
card operations. Pass in 00000000H for an automatically allocated memory
window. The window it attempts to use is directly above the PC's system
SDRAM.
To maintain compatibility with earlier MCELIB versions the application
software should pass in D0000H instead of 0H to this function call.
Note that only 4000H increments should be used.
Possible range from C0000H to EC000H or any free address above 100000H.
A memory block of size 4000H is reserved with Windows and tested by the
MCELIBfunction for suitability.
Showing my absolute ignorance here, without a chart showing the blocks of
memory I can try I'm lost.
I have scoured Synchrotech's website, no answers there. I found the old
Elan FAQ pages saved at the Wayback Machine but no answers there.
Searching the "web" for memory address block settings in XP didn't seem to
turn up what I was looking for either.
Thanks for indulging me once again.
Don Resor
Hi there,
Does anyone have the spec sheet for the Dysan 208-21 alignment disk, or
know what drive it's intended to be used with?
I've got the information sheet which comes with the disk, but it doesn't
identify the tracks-per-inch or track count.
It's a 5.25in double-sided disk; the info sheet says:
FILE: 208-21 PAGE 001
Dysan 208-21 (Configuration #802030)
Double Sided Alignment Diskette
Track 0 - Full Revolution (both sides)
Track 1 - Index Burst (both sides)
Track 16 - Index, Azimuth and Catseye (both sides)
Track 33 - Full Revolution (both sides)
Track 34 - Index and Azimuth (both sides)
Full Revolution - recording frequency is 125 kHz
Index Burst - 50us in duration and occurs 200us after index. Recording
frequency 125 kHz.
Azimuth - Four bursts that depicts an azimuth of 12'.
Each burst is 1 millisecond in duration with the first burst occurring
500us after index. The recording frequency is 125kHz.
Catseye - recording frequency 62.5 kHz
Sadly the part number doesn't appear on Accurite's old website (per
archive.org), or the Dysan PDFs I've found on Bitsavers.
About the only thing I've been able to figure out is that it's an Analog
Alignment Disk.
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp(a)philpem.me.uk
https://www.philpem.me.uk/
Hello All,
Since the new hosting has taken over I am having a ton of issues posting to
the list. Anyone else experiencing legit posts being blocked as spam?
-Ali
I am looking for some advice and recommendations on how to best go about
accomplishing the following:
I have recently come into possession of an actual physical terminal that can
be connected to a device via a standard RS232 (serial) port, so far so good.
I have a number of devices that can be connected to for maintenance (e.g. FW
updates, configuration, etc.) via a serial port. Currently I have been using
an old laptop with a terminal program (Procomm Plus) whenever I want to
connected to one of these devices. This involves crawling around connecting
the serial cable, doing what needs to be done, crawling back disconnecting,
rinse and repeat.
I can connect the physical terminal to one device at a time and have a
permanent connection to that one device, great for one device but not so
useful.
So I was thinking if it would be possible to do this over the LAN.
I know about console servers where I could connect multiple serial devices
to the server and then access each device over LAN via a telnet client on a
modern system using an IP:port schema. This works great except I don't get
to play with my shiny, new to me, authentic experience terminal device.
So I am wondering if there is a box that provides a telnet CLIENT to a
serial port device? I.E. a box smart enough that handles the telnet client,
LAN functions, and terminal emulations internally and then provides a text
based interface through a serial port that is compatible with my physical
terminal? That way my physical terminal would be connected to the RS232/LAN
bridge all the time and I could connected to not only the serial ports
connected to the console server but other telnet accessible services as all
the heavy lifting would be done on the bridge. I am ideally looking for a
ready to go, low power device, I can hide away as opposed to setting up a PC
of my own running some *nix flavor that I know can do this but is way over
kill. Oh yeah and if it is super cheap even better. Thanks!
-Ali
