Hello, all:
If anyone is interested in this stuff, please contact Bruce directly.
Thanks
Rich
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Faierson <74366.2014(a)compuserve.com>
To: <rcini(a)msn.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 1:00 PM
Subject: Commodore B-128
> I saw some messages of yours on a classic computer message board, from a
> few years ago. I have several software pakages and some hardware for the
> Commodore B-128 series. I was wondering if you or someone you know would
> be interested in buying some of it. I have several of each of the
> following available:
>
> B-128 CABS Accounting (all new) (the plastic on the binders is slightly
> warped forming little ridged lines, due to faulty manufacture by
Commodore)
> General Ledger=$15
> Order Entry=$15
> Accounts Payable=$15
> Accounts Receivable=$15
> Payroll=$15
> B-128 North West Software's Inventory Control (new)(rare)(requires use of
> SuperBase) =$15
> B-128 Super Script II (new)(in shrinkwrap)=$20
> B-128 Super Base (new)=$15
> B-128 Super Office=$15
> 8032 64k memory expansion board (new)(includes all
> documentation)(rare)=$50
> B-128 Users Guide=$12
> B-128 Programmers Reference Guide=$17
> B-128 Computer (used) =$90
> B-500 chassis with B-128 inside (used)=$110 (B-500 chassis is the same as
> the B-128's except for the serial number/placement on the
> chassis itself)
>
> Thank You,
> Eric Faierson
>
I'm forwarding this to both CLASSICCMP and the port-vax lists.
If you want a crack at giving a Really Nice Sounding VAXen a good
home, please contact the author of the attached message directly.
Thanks. Enjoy!
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On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 19:39:02 -0400, in comp.os.vms you wrote:
>>Our company has available for a good home one VAX 8350.
>>
>>o BI backplane
>>o UNIBUS expansion
>>o 2 CPUs - 1 broken
>>o 1 CMD BI SCSI card
>>o 1 UNIBUS Viking UDO (UNIBUS to SCSI) :) :) :) :)
>>o 1 U.S. Design 1158 (UNIBUS to SCSI)
>>o 16 MB RAM
>>o Miscellenous UNIBUS cards. E-mail for complete inventory.
>>
>>There is a limited life on this system. I am willing to save the
>>cards, but not the entire box. Please contact me ASAP so that this
>>"ol' yella" can find a good home. Any interest in the entire system
>>or cards is welcome.
>>
>>The system is located at:
>>
>>U.S. Design
>>9075 Guilford Rd.
>>Columbia, MD 21046
>>
>>Baltimore-Washington corridor.
>>
>>We will not be willing to ship the entire system, but may consider
>>shipping cards/cables, etc.
>>
>>Please contact:
>>
>>Chuck McCrobie (** MAD VAX **)
>>mccrobie(a)usdesign.com
>>410-381-3000 x130
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho,
Blue Feather Technologies -- kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech [dot] com
Web: http://www.bluefeathertech.com
"...No matter how we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object,
event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them..."
Well, it's time for the annual cleaning out of my basement. Here's what I
need to start making things work:
Monitor cable for a SparcStationII. Mine had the braid exposed when I got
it and has gotten worse ever since.
Network card for a Mac IIci
4 1Meg Simms, 30 pin (or 2 2... or whatever... at least 4 megs (for a 386)
Boot disks for an Atari 800XL and disks of some usefullness for a TRS-80
CoCo model 2.
Information on a VAXstation 4000 VLC. I've searched long and hard for ANY
info about this machine and have found very little.
I have the following that I'm willing to trade:
Diconix (Kodak) portable inkjet printer.
Fujitsu M1923L 9.6K bps fast poll modem.
Monochrome VGA monitor.
A comically boring video on how to use Win 3.1.
Thanks,
Kevin
Greetings,
Yesterday, I acquired a MIPS Magnum 3000; no display, no mouse; just the
keyboard. Can this system be used from a serial port or ethernet with
no monitor or mouse attached?
If the system's bootable, can anyone tell me if there's a somewhat
easy way, specific to this system, to gain root access, from the
console, without having access to a bootable tape? Alternately, can
anyone point me in the direction of a boot tape for this machine, and
a source of documentation for it?
Any other information, such as specifications, etc., pertaining to this
machine, would also be greatly appreciated.
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com Be careful what you wish for --- you
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd may get your wish ...and it might not
Tel: (410) 744-4900 be what you were expecting.
<I've currently got an RX50 in bits on the bench, and I am wondering how
<on earth you align it. Does anyone know the official DEC procedure?
Throw it out and install another... ;)
Seriously they were pretty sloppy drives and alignment was factory.
<While we're on the subject, was there ever going to be a double-sided
<RX50? There's sort-of support for it (the side select input on the
The proposed design was supposed to be 40 track. At 96 track it's
alignment was only soso. There would have been a two sided one save for
someone came to their senses, literally and used the RX33 (teac fd55GFV).
That and CSSE (FS engineering arm) raised a ruckus over that drive due
it's poor general perfomance and being so noisy.
Allison
> Anybody have a favorite? Why?
My terminal of Choice: Wyse WY-50.
1. They're cheap (they show up in thrifts for <$10)
2. Lots of places still repair them, parts are fairly
easy to get.
3. I like the 'font' Wyse decided to use; its
screen appearance is pleasant to me.
4. Easy to configure
5. Small, lightweight.
6. Comes in Amber phosphor, which I really prefer
(although most of mine are green).
About the only thing I hate about it is that
more often than not, when these are offered for
sale, the keyboard is missing. Keyboards for these
used to be kinda scarce.
Jeff
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Oh, BTW . . . if anyone wants one of those 1024x864 color monitors . . . I
tried for some time to make it sync to a modified SVGA card but failed to
get beyond a stabile display with an 's'-shaped left margin (vertical +/-
2") and gave up . . . I'll happily give the thing up for the cost of packing
and shipping. I also have a Philips 19" color monitor formerly used on a
uVAX at 1280x1024 with nominally a 64kHz horizontal rate which is in the
same category and with which I experienced the same level of success which
I'd also happily hand over to whoever wants it.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: emanuel stiebler <emu(a)ecubics.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Needed / Available
>----- Original Message -----
>From: LordTyran <a2k(a)one.net>
>To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
><classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
>Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 7:58 AM
>Subject: Re: Needed / Available
>
>
>> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, emanuel stiebler wrote:
>> > > Information on a VAXstation 4000 VLC. I've searched long and hard for
>ANY
>> > > info about this machine and have found very little.
>> >
>> > What do you want to know ?
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > emanuel
>> >
>> Basically, everything.
>
>Ups ;-)
>
>> Web searches have been depressingly fruitless,
>> yeilding things like the date produced and that's it.
>
>So, you get at least something.
>
>> I need to know how
>> to netboot it, use a terminal as the console, and install OpenVMS or BSD
>> on it so it can do something useful. Having an actual console wouldn't be
>> bad either. Does it use standard SCSI hard disks? What about ethernet?
>
>Ok,
>
>If you're interested in *BSD, please go to http://www.netbsd.org
>Subscribe to the port-vax mailinglist. There you get any help, about
>netbooting, installing of NetBSD. (but only a diskless install is possible
>at this time)
>I use one here with OpenVMS on the harddrive, and NetBSD via Netboot.
>
>console: If you dont have the monitor/keyboard/mouse for it, switch the
>little switch on the right side of the box ( S3 ) to the "up" position.
Then
>insert your favourite terminal to the MMJ connector in the rear of the box,
>there is a printer sign on it.
>try 9600 baud, 8n1. that's it.
>
>monitor: if you try to use a monitor on it, it should be a good one. The
>4000/vlc had two different graphic options: 1024x864x8 and 1280x1024x8, the
>second needs a 70KHz monitor or better.
>
>memory: up to 24 MByte. You can use standard PS/2 memory modules, but only
>the 4 MByte versions. (always pairs, so the memory is 8/16/24 MByte)
>
>disks: standard SCSI.
>
>etehernet: standard AUI port. You need a tranceiver to whatever media you
>like.
>
>
>hope it helps a little, if you have further question, feel free to ask.
>
>cheers,
>emanuel
>
>
>
> Anybody have a favorite? Why?
My favorites are: Heath H-19, DEC VT-52, and DEC VT-220.
Unfavorites are:
- VT-100. It just doesn't have enough compute power. Since I'm a CP/M
WordStar fanatic, requiring XON/XOFF on the console port because the
terminal is underpowered is very annoying (^Q and ^S are very important
keys in WordStarland).
- Anything by Televideo. Televideo keyboards and I don't get along. The
touch is too heavy. I press CONTROL [ for escape because I use so many
different keyboards and that moves around less than the ESC key, but the
Televideo terminals insist on sending ^] no matter how I'm holding the
shift key down.
- Terminal emulators running on PCs. Seems like there's always some
annoying quirk they get wrong. For example, MS-DOS KERMIT didn't play
nice with K52 on RT-11 because K52 likes to move the cursor to the 25th
line if it decides not to move the cursor at all; a real VT-52 doesn't
have a 25th line, but KERMIT does. Another example: PCCONS under NetBSD
goes into graphics mode the first time I telnet into a VMS machine to
read my mail. I don't know why.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
Hi. Anyone knows how to enter the BIOS setup in such a PC?
Does it even have a BIOS setup utility?
Thanks,
--
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