drove out to the country the other day and picked up this load of dec stuff.
some of you dec hotshots can tell me if it was worth the trip. lol
i already have a microvax II, but in a tower unit form factor, almost like a
pc. (ba123 i think) the 3 i got are shaped different. two of them are big,
probably over 200lbs each easy. the first one has a sticker on it showing
model 63006. its a big unit, with a hood that opens up top and a big tape
drive <?> that slides forward. the machine says TS05 on the front. one model
came with two hard drives. the other unit 'named pugsly' is the same, except
it has a small tape drive and the backplane has cables going everywhere and
the side panels are off. thankfully they have wheels. the 3rd uvax is a much
smaller unit but wider than the one i have here in the computer room. it has a
dual vertical floppy drive and two hard drives.
i also got two vt220 terminals
about 40 orange binders about vax/vms. programmer's guide, reference, and who
know what else!
a letterwriter 100
external drive RD54
a tape drive (tk50?)
a rat's nest of cables to hook everything up.
some blank dec 5.25 disks
about 20 compactapes. half are backups. last bu was nov94.
also got these system tapes:
microvms 4.6 full bin
vax fortran 4.5 bin
decnet mvms v4 net bnd/n
tsv05 driver bin
microvms v4.7 bin
vhs lic key bin
microvms 4.6 bin mand update
mvII diag cust
rel:1.2.1 install microvax II (handwritten)
heh, if anyone can explain all this, that would be most welcome. it was hard
work having to unload those off a truck by myself. i might keep the smaller of
the 3 i got, but the two big monstors, i'm unsure of. the people i got these
>from also want to give me a CDC machine that's even bigger...
david
Well, sorta.. I have found a wonderful EDSAC simulator that
runs on Windows or Mac. It presents you with the 'front panel' of
the machine.. a CRT that 'looks' at the various memory delay tanks,
other register displays, and some control buttons. One 'punches'
programs into files, which are then presented to the sim and away it
goes. Even (corny) sound effects. It emulates the machine as it
existed in the 1949 - 50 time range.
It is a 1.873 Mb file that explodes into the program and demo
files, as well as two .pdf docs explaining everything.
It can be had at: www.ocs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac
I have been playing with it on and off all day today.
Sam: Possibly a neat item at VCF II would be to have a box running
this simulator... it certainly gives instant awareness of what it
was like back in the Old Days.
Certainly on topic, I guess... ;}
Cheers
John
>Would someone be kind enough to direct me to a good FAQ or URL for
>diagnosing/repairing monitors? There has been some excellent information
Oops - try www.repairfaq.org/~filipg.
Bill Richman
incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r
(Home of the COSMAC Elf
microcomputer simulator!)
>Would someone be kind enough to direct me to a good FAQ or URL for
>diagnosing/repairing monitors? There has been some excellent information
Try www.repairfaq.com - it contains the sci.electronics.repair newsgroup
FAQ. (I tried it just now, and can't get there, but I think this is the
right address.)
Bill Richman
incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r
(Home of the COSMAC Elf
microcomputer simulator!)
hey, i have two macs with hyperdrives, one is complete and working. AFAIK,
that was the only way to get a hard drive on a mac512k besides the floppy
connected slow hard drive that apple built. that ST225 sure made the computer
much heavier!
In a message dated 98-09-24 01:40:19 EDT, A Finney put forth:
> "Note the 'Hyperdrive' sticker on the back of this Mac. This was one of
> the first internal hard drives for Mac with a cable that clipped directly
> to the processor. Very cool, very expensive..."
< since getting a RL02 hooked up to the one /23 would take a lot of work,
That isn't a bad task. Put the controller in the system if you have the
right box, plug in the cables, power and your off.
< I've been stuck dialed into work. Besides it sounds like a drive format
< on a VS2000 can then be used on a RQDX3 without any problem.
Yes, that works well.
< 1 down 4 to go. At least I've got one good drive out of the deal so it
< worth it, even if the rest are bad! Now I've got a RD52 for that /23. :
An 11/23 with RD52 is a good system with any OS 'cept maybe unix. I run
RT-11 on it and it's very roomy.
Allison
Well between the info Tim posted yesterday (Thanks again Tim), the
'mfm.disks' document that has been on the PDP-11 site, and the 'mv.txt'
document that is part of the MV/VS FAQ, I just finished formatting one of
the drives in the VS2000. I decided to go that route at least initially
since getting a RL02 hooked up to the one /23 would take a lot of work, and
I've been stuck dialed into work. Besides it sounds like a drive formatted
on a VS2000 can then be used on a RQDX3 without any problem.
1 down 4 to go. At least I've got one good drive out of the deal so it was
worth it, even if the rest are bad! Now I've got a RD52 for that /23. :^)
Zane
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Is that the only speech to be made?
>
>> >>The article only raises more questions. At the VCF we will answer
them,
>> >>and a new chapter in the history of the development of the
microprocessor
>> >>will be written.
>>
>> For those of us unable to make it to this event, will there be a
>> transcript of Holt's speech?
>
>Yes. And a taped version and a video tape will be made. No definite
>plans exist for releasing the video tape of the talk, but an audio
>cassette will be produced.
>
>Also, I'll be releasing the URL to the web site that Ray Holt put up to
>disseminate information about the F14 Central Air Data Computer on this
>list tomorrow. You guys will be getting this before the rest of the
>world.
>
>It has pictures of the chip masks, technical data, a more recent paper
>Holt wrote to put this technology in perspective, and some other data.
>
>Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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>Ever onward.
>
> September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 09/21/98]
>
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:24:36 -0700 (PDT), Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com>
wrote:
>>On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:
>> On page B6, in an article titled "Yet Another 'Father' Of the
>> Microprocessor Wants Recognition", there is discussion of Ray Holt, an
>> ex-Navy engineer who claims to have created the microprocessor in 1969,
two
>> years before Hoff, Faggin, and Mazor created the integrated processor.
>Actually, its on page B3.
In the New York City edition (versus the National edition), it does
appear on page B6. Sorry for the confusion.
>>The article only raises more questions. At the VCF we will answer them,
>>and a new chapter in the history of the development of the microprocessor
>>will be written.
For those of us unable to make it to this event, will there be a
transcript of Holt's speech?
Rich Cini/WUGNET
- ClubWin!/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Collector of "classic" computers
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