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Ever onward.
Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 09/21/98]
>From bogus(a)does.not.exist.com Tue Sep 29 11:31:22 1998
From: bogus(a)does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Sun Feb 27 18:36:56 2005
Subject: Greetings from Big D!
Message-ID: <mailman.5.1109551016.8069.cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Saw an article about you and your group --
I have a working TRS-80 Model I which
includes expansion interface, RS-232
board, and double disk drives (now, try
and contain yourself....) at my parent's
home in Pennsylvania - they want to
'reclaim' the space, and keep dropping
hints about removing -- would hate to
'landfill' it since it works, but need a contact --
Tried contacting the TRS-80 user groups
>from a search on the web, and the Tandy Corp
headquarters here in Fort Worth , but have
received no replies.
Thanks for the help.
Glenn Knuth
Dallas, Texas
glennkn(a)juno.com
A few months ago, I picked up a scavenged non-working MicroVAX
and a little VaxStation 2000/VS410 from a junk storeroom at
Nicolet Instruments in Madison, WI. I'd missed a pair of much
nicer graphics-equipped MicroVAXes dumpstered a month or so before.
I've received word that they're clearing out this storeroom.
I know there'a a TK50, carts, manuals and lots of other misc. junk,
including several Cypher (?) mag tape units.
It was piled high and deep and very poorly organized. There's
also a rack-mount Nicolet 1280 that was known-working when retired.
Mr. Ismail, you have a 1080, would you like another from the
Nicolet family?
I'll pick up what makes sense, and post a list. I doubt I'll want
to keep it all.
- John
I just came out ahead on a Vaxstation 3100 from E-Bay, having skipped
the MicroVax3300...
Looks like it's a 3100 Model 38... can someone point me to video
pinouts, monitor specs etc since it's coming CPU box only.
I'm wondering if it will drive any of the Sun Sparcstation monitors
without a problem (or a modern multisync). At worst I'll run it
with a VT100 (or 320 if I can find an MMJ cable).
As soon as it arrives I plan to load it with VAX/VMS from the
non-commercial hobby distribution... I'm wondering if I should
check to see if there are any licenses and software on the box
first. Any suggestions?
Can this machine boot off a second drive -- I'd like to put
NetBSD up on an external drive.
Any pointers to FAQs and info on this machine would be appreciated.
I left DEC after the MicroVax II and 8650 so I have no info on this machine.
Boy, will it be good to see VAX/VMS again.
Bill
Bill
Thanks everybody for the inquiries about the 2068. It has been sold.
--Alan
--
Computing since: 1982, VIC-20, CoCo, PC, CP/M
Military Computers: COMTRAN 10, Nida 250
Amateur Radio since: 1971, WN8JEF, KA6EXR, N8BGR, AA4ZI
BASIC, dBASE, Assembly, C++
http://www.bright.net/~oajones
Along with the Compaq books and the Jonos Escort previously
described, I just stumbled (literally!) over the other bit of
vintage digital gear.. an unopened/shrink wrapped box containing an
AT&T Voicepower VP1 module for the 6300 series. The box is marked
"Work Group System Voice Power"
I haven't opened it yet, but there was a stack of about 25 of
them, 20 of which had been sold en masse.
Apparently it is a trainable voice-input command module. Along with
it (unrelated) was the AT&T version of the IBM user's guide for the
6300, with disks. Since I have two 6300s skulking around here, I can
hook this thing up and see what happens...
The VCF II sounds like it will do more than was thought to further
the aim of Thechnology Preservation.... but that's why we do this, no?
Cheers
John
< > Title of item: DEC MicroVax 3300 Mini Main Frame.L@@K.(pics)
< > Seller: wizardworkz(a)netscape.net
< > Starts: 09/24/98 21:40:34 PDT
< > Ends: 10/01/98 21:40:34 PDT
< > Price: Currently $157.50
< > To bid the item, go to:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI
< >
< >
< > Item Description:
< >
< > DEC MICROVAX 3300
< > - Mini Main Frame - Alpha Server -
<
< He says Alpha?
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
If the case says VAXanything or MicroVAX it's VAX. If it's an Alpha
it would say Alphamumble. Systems with the DECmumble are MIPS.
It's KA640 serie vax with a VUP of 2.4.
Allison
Well, I suppose a Statistically Significant Number of folk are
attending the VCF II... not, however. (snif..)
I consoled myself by putting in my usual apperance at the TRW Ham
Swapmeet here in cloudy SoCal.. whereat I picked up two
list-related items, viz:
1) A complete set of Tech and Ref manual for the 286-based Compaqs,
complete w/disks and pocket refs, etc... for $2.
2) A Jonos Escort portable, running CP/M 3.0.
This cute little box came from NASA, and has a Syquest drive
alognside the 1/2 height HD.. the Syquest is unfortunately dead,
and/or the cartridge is blank. The HD, however is *full* of Stuff,
including WordStar, which is how I found out what who made this box,
as it has no outside markings other than the model and serial
numbers, telling me it's a Model C 2500.
It has an RS232 port, and an IEEE 488, a telephone jack, an
external video RCA jack, and a many-pin Berg connector marked
'External 8" Subsystem'
I haven't had much more time to examine it closely, though it does
boot and run with no problems, other than complaining about the B:
drive not working.
In advance of my doing the usual WebSearch on it.. any comments
or info re: this box would be fun to hear.
Also I have a lead on a "few" Rockwell AIM 65s; I missed the one
by 30 seconds.. it went for $5 and the buyer declined my offer of
$20.. damn I *hate* when that happens... the seller and I
exchanged phone/e-mail tho, and I will (hopefully) hear about the
remaining units next week. [He told me the one I wanted had no ROMs
in it... so I'm not completely depressed.]
I bought a bunch of other stuff, too, but nothing on-topic.
Cheers
John
On Sep 29, 19:10, Tony Duell wrote:
> Subject: Re: Apple Questions
> > Disk][s don't have any setup (apart from internal speed/alignment
>
> And the read amplifier offset/threshold, R28 on the analogue board.
>
Yes, I sort of included that in "alignment" -- in the electronic sense.
Actually, not all Disk][s seem to have a pot there; and it was some time
before I worked out how to set it properly (the Apple tech manuals I had in
those days didn't mention it) and I had to wait until I got a Sony manual
to figure it out. I remember asking once Motorola for the MC3470
datasheet, and the UK office told me it didn't exist!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
