Uncle Roger <sinasohn(a)ricochet.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a MS-DOS (pretend it's a 10yr+ old version) compatible
>backup program that can handle a SCSI DAT drive? I have *not* been able to
>find one. If you know of one, would you know where to find a copy now?
I use a circa 1992 "ASPITAPE.SYS" driver I got from Compuserve to drive
SCSI DAT and Exabyte under MS-DOS. I even had a 'tar' that worked with it.
I'll find them and send to you in e-mail if you like.
It was made by Greg Shenaut. In the docs his e-mail address is listed
as marva4!gks1!greg(a)ucdavis.EDU . Now there's a blast from the past,
if you want to keep this thread on topic and explain e-mail in the Old Days.
<You're in high school right? Is there any chance that when you graduate
<you'll want to come out to California to work for me? I don't know if yo
Hi, I'm interested... ;) Around MA they want a PHD to hack stuff like
that now.
Right Now I'm hacking a DEC vt180 z80/cpm card to run stand alone
(without the vt100 case and power), Z280 design and a PC keyboard to
ascii translator (8749 or 8742) to fit my needs for the z280 system.
Fortunatly it's not a dead skill.
Allison
<Here's a completely hypothetical situation for you:
Here I'll make it simpler. Your can get (US residents currently)
For free a decus basic membership, then get a VMS hobbiest license.
Now, for a modest $30 you can get a CDrom with VMS versions 5.4 though
V6.1 on CDrom for hobbiest use. (Current is either 7.1 or 7.2).
So if you happen to find an old vaxen with VMS and a valid key it's
likely cool. If you need a key for said beast you know where to get
it(www.decus.org). The CDrom would be read/bootable on a vax (VMSfile
system) so a RRD40/RRD50 or scsi compatable CDrom for a VAX is needed.
now if you didn't have said CDrom drive but had the disk someone with
a vax can cut a tape from it or just give you the savesets for any
version from 5.4 through 6.1 and you would use the DECUS provided
hobbiest license key.
<Would anyone care to venture a hypothetical answer? :)
Was the above hypothetical enough.
<Also -- no longer speaking hypothetically! -- let's say that I (myself)
<wanted to get a distribution of NetBSD on TK50 tapes. Is there anyone
<in the group who could send it to me, in exchange for fresh virgin blank
<TK50 tapes? Unfortunately I have no way of writing the available TK50
<images to tape myself, or I would.
Check with the crowd on the PORT-VAX list. (check the NetBSD web page
for help).
Allison
> My friend (and I, for that matter), would never condone software piracy,
> in all seriousness. However (again, hypothetically speaking of course)
> my friend would have a lot of trouble understanding how posessing and
> running an old, obsoleted version of VMS would bring harm to anybody or to
> any organization. He might also be very disappointed that there were no
> available inexpensive hobbyist licenses available, which, if one existed,
> he would certainly jump at and support with his own hard earned money,
> quite happily.
So, you and your friend might want to webulate over to
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/index.html for starters.
Hope this helps.
-Frank McConnell
> I still have my circular slide rule from high school and even use it
on
> occassion. I won't say when I got it but it was before HP released the
-35
Well, I learned the slipstick in '68.
> $110, IIRC....Was that TI's first?
>
> Not by a long shot. The first was in late '71 and went for about $140
> (8bigit 4banger). I had one going into EE school.
What was the model number? I got my SR-10 in '74, my first year of
college.
Still have it, somewhere.
manney
Well, this one's not really good at all, but try http://www.can.ibm.com .
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Allison <mallison(a)konnections.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, February 06, 1998 2:53 AM
Subject: IBM Archive
>Anyone know where there's a good IBM program and/or doc archive that
>goes back beyond last month? Really into the 80's Looking for original
>PC stuff...
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Mike
<2708 (looks like 12 volts according to a spec sheet in one of my
<books.)
2708 is three voltage for operation (+5, +12, -5) programming is
for programming CS/ must be 12.0v and program pulse is 26v
<2716 25 volts
27c16 12.5
TI2532 25v differing pinout and programming spec.
<2732 25 volts
<2732A 21 volts
<2732B 12.5 volts
<2764 21 volts
<27C64 21 volts
<2764A 12.5 volts
Later ones are generally 12.5v. Some require different Vcc when
programming as well. Also the part numbers given do not always match
given vendors for a stated programming voltage
Allison
