Hello,
After 18 years of acquiring artifacts, our warehouse is in need of
reorganization, as well as major renovation work - climate control, roof
repairs, etc. A total restructuring, inventorying, and refurbishment of the
warehouse is planned to commence soon - some steps such as the installation
of climate control have already been taken - however, planning this process
is made difficult by the fact that a number of our members have their own
personal belongings stored within, many without proper tagging or
documentation as such.
On January 1st, 2024, the VCF warehouse at Infoage will be closed for
renovation and organization. During this time, no items will be permitted
in or out of the warehouse bar those permitted *directly* by the VCF
Warehouse manager - Thomas Gilinsky - during monthly repair workshops.
As such, if you have any personal belongings stored within the warehouse,
and would like to retrieve it, or have it tagged and set aside for you to
collect later, please contact either me at thomas.gilinsky(a)vcfed.org, or
Doug at douglas.crawford(a)vcfed.org. Please provide *verifiable* *proof*
that the item you are describing is your possession.
*ITEMS WHICH ARE NOT CLAIMED BY JANUARY 1ST, 2024 WILL BE ASSUMED TO BE THE
POSSESSIONS OF VCF.*
Donations to VCF will still be accepted during this time - we have other
areas to store them while the warehouse is reorganized.
Thanks,
Thomas Gilinsky
Vintage Computer Federation Warehouse Manager
Jim Hall will be doing a livestream on VCF's YouTube channel:
https://youtube.com/live/FpBnRk8oWLc
We don’t give much thought these days to what “Unix” means. In 2023, most
Unix systems are actually running some version of Linux, which includes
modern tools and commands that were unthinkable when Unix hit the scene in
the early 1970s. But some 50 years later, “Unix” still lives on.
Jim will look back on Unix history and experience first-hand what it was
like to use the original Unix. Unix 3rd Edition debuted in 1973, and he
chose that version as my target. That’s transporting back in time by 50
years.
He will talk about:
* Terminal setup
* FORTRAN66 program
* nroff document
* linenum program
* For another example of using Linux like original Unix, read hist article
on Sysadmin Signal:
https://sysadminsignal.com/2023/06/19/run-linux-like-original-unix/
For more FreeDOS content, visit his website
https://www.freedos.org/
Join hist project on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedosproject/
Follow his project on Mastodon
https://fosstodon.org/@freedosproject
Thanks!
Jeff Brace
VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President
Vintage Computer Festival East Showrunner
VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager
Vintage Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity
https://vcfed.org/ <http://www.vcfed.org/>
jeffrey(a)vcfed.org
Well, I've got the Greaseweazle software to run, but I don't know why,
which is hardly encouraging.
Installing various Windows updates, downloading .dlls, and puting the
latter in various directories changed the error messages but it never
actually worked. But downloading the latest Greaseweazle software did,
it ran first time. So no idea what I was doing wrong (maybe 32 bit
.vs. 64 bit Windows applications?)
I can now get the list of commands when I run gw.exe. And can get help
on them using the -h option. I've not tried connecting a drive yet,
but the software can find and talk to the board (the green 'activity'
LED turns on). For example 'gw rpm' which is used to check the drive
speed by timing the index pulses times out and gives a 'no index'
error which seems entrely reasonable.
However I am not sure if I'll be able to use it. There is one very
important thing missing : DOCUMENTATION. The 'wikii' on github is
ridiculously incomplete. There is no user manual or man pages. The
software source in python (a language I've never used) has very few
comments and is not clear at all.
It's not clear to me exactly what all the options are for, and when to use them.
-tony
Hi all,
I tried several ways to get a working SCSI image to be successfully boote
on a ZULU 2024 SCSI Emulator.
1. I do have an Image of an RZ25-E drive containing RSX11M Plus, which is
booting properly. This is a raw dd based disc image of a SCSI drive.
2. I got a disc mage by Jacob, which is booting using simh, but not using
the ZULU on a physical 11/73
3. I created a fresh installation of Ultrix 11 using simh 3.9.x creating a
RD54 image which won't boot on the ZULU an the physical 11/73
4.. I created a fresh installation of Ultrix 11 using simh 3.9.x directly
into a physical SCSI drive partition, created an image via dd which doesn't
want to boot on the ZULU. Simh is booting properly from a dd image of this
partition.
5. Simh is telling me in general using a (virtual) RQDX3 controller. Maybe
the images created won't boot because of being created by the virtual RQDX
3 controller?
How to create a raw disc w/o any controller specific format - simply a
plain Ultrix 11 image as a target for a SCSI drive to be booted either from
the physical, or from a virtual (ZULU).
Best
Andreas
Hi there,
in the last weeks my last two working UltraBooks died. Today I investigated the problem
and obviously in these RDI made notebooks, the NVRAMs not only contain the boot information,
the host ID and the MAC address but also the hardware configuration.
Hence: Once the NVRAM is completeley dead, absent or replaced, the unit will not
start up any more - it gets stuck in the power on test BEFORE the screen shows any
information.
Do anyone out there have got UltraBooks or UltraBooks IIi up and running? Would
highly be interested in a dump of the NVRAM/Timekeeper!!!
The failed first generation UltraBook are (DS1643 NVRAM):
(*) U20-14-9-512P with three (!!) hard drives, no battery port
(*) U20-14-3-128B two hard drives, battery port
And my beloved UltraBook IIi (TimeKeeper DS1553-070)
(*) U40-14-1X-1024C one harddrive, battery port and creator graphics.
Reply here or PM erik(a)baigar.de,
Thanks
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So advice to all owners: Backup your NVRAM contents and I'd be more than happy
to get in touch with you!
Not affected seem to be the PrecisionBooks (e.g. H16-12-8-512L2, two hard-
drives and battery port) as they do not contain an NVRAM/TimeKeeper.
Hey Steve I know this is a year later but I have the Nortronic Read Write heads you were looking for. They are currently on eBay. The listing is below. Just do a search and they will come up.
Nortronics Magnetic Head Assembly. NOS Part 9164-0068. Radio Cart Machines.
Hope this helps.
Mark
Sent from my iPhone
Hi,
I have a PDP-11/40 that I've wanted to restore for many years now. I got
it in the standard 21" cabinet but the power supplies were in a cardboard
box. I'm not certain how the power supply bundle mounts in the cab. Also
I'm missing the power supply cables. Do they use currently available Molex
connectors?
Could someone on the list perhaps take a picture or two to show me how the
supplies are supposed to mount in the rack? Also, a shot of the power
cable routing would help.
Thanks,
Marc Howard
I have a 11/35 buried in my garage. Contact me off list if you’re unable to find what you need and I’ll get you some pictures.
Kirk
Sent from my iPad
> On Oct 21, 2023, at 12:55 AM, Marc Howard via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a PDP-11/40 that I've wanted to restore for many years now. I got
> it in the standard 21" cabinet but the power supplies were in a cardboard
> box. I'm not certain how the power supply bundle mounts in the cab. Also
> I'm missing the power supply cables. Do they use currently available Molex
> connectors?
>
> Could someone on the list perhaps take a picture or two to show me how the
> supplies are supposed to mount in the rack? Also, a shot of the power
> cable routing would help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc Howard
