test-drb December 1999

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Wait! There's more including MS-DOS 1.25!!!! was Sanyo MBC-550 (Yuck!) software available

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I'm still digging. I found more 550 stuff. I think this is everything that came with the 550. Here's a chance for you 550 owner's to get the whole set at one shot! Original DS-DOS box and invoice. Original Sanyo Easywriter ver 1.3 disk Original Sanyo disk box with 550 dos ver 2.11 and BASIC 1.25, two original Sanyo disk for InfoStar (set B disk 2 and 3 of 4; disks 1 and 4 are below), original Sanyo disk for DOS 1.25 and BASIC ver 1.1 Original Sanyo disk box with all three original disk of set A, WordStar and CalcStar and a backup copy of DS-DOS. Two card board dummy disks used to protect the floppy drives duing shipment. Joe > >A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron. > > Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and they're all your's. > > Joe

11 years, 11 months

recent additions

by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

I recently filled the car with these: Apollo DOMAIN Series 3500 Domain series 3000 model 3010 HP/Apollo series 400 (2) Sun 3/60 + tape drive and tapes Sun 3/50 Apple lisa 2 (2) apple II Ci Mac SE/30 with radius monitor Mac color classic Quadra 610 Quadra 800 Quadra 860 power mac 7200/90 Also available was a volker Craig terminal, and a copy apple's unix I also have "quite a pile of HP 712/715/725s in various condition" for me to pick up when I get some space cleared. IKEA has said that the missing piece to complete the shelving will be delayed another 3 weeks, and my wife says no more machines until the shelves are up!

23 years, 4 months

Equipment needs home: Portland, OR. area

by wolf＠nwinfo.net

hey do you have any ideas about using relays or some thing connected to a parallel or aerial port to control the power to an outlet, you know like a dimmer switch controlling motors ETC if you have any thought or ideas I'd be glad to hear them.

23 years, 6 months

ldb4401 can be replaced by .....?

by General＠cyber.net.pk

dear sir please address the issue regards nasir

23 years, 7 months

TRS-80 Model II

by pdp-11＠swbell.net

>Also, if anyone wants one of these things, $10 plus shipping. The >condition >is unknown since I haven't fired them up ... and they don't include >keyboards :). Do you know how much shipping will be?

24 years, 3 months

PDP-11/34 & RK05 Questions

by pdp-11＠swbell.net

I am getting my PDP-11/34 and my RK05 disk drives and packs tommorrow, and I have a few questions.They have have been in storage for years, and, although they have been kept dry, they are probably dusty. Can anyone tell me how to clean the drives and the disk packs before I use them? Thanks, Owen

24 years, 4 months

AS400-C10

by thompson＠mail.athenet.net

The above item fell into my possession today. It appears to be circa 1990, contains three hard disks (or DASD, if you prefer), a 150mb QIC tape drive, and a twinax interface card. The IBM web site indicates this machine supports a whopping 20MB of RAM and 2GB of hard drive space. It still has an OS on the disks if I can remember which drive went in which bay in the machine (or if the id is in the drive rather than the backplane) The IBM site is not forthcoming on additional details on the machine.

24 years, 10 months

Emulex TC12 docs?

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

Need switch settings for it. Mine's acting funny and I think the switches got played with (The SCSI controller works fine, and the TC doesn't, swapping slots doesn't help, only other things in the backplane are two DZ11s.) It's a Emulex TC12 UNIBUS tape controller, with a 1600/3200 BPI Pertec 9-track drive on it. Drive is known good. I/O with the drive loses about half the time. (It just hangs RT-11 forever.) -------

24 years, 11 months

how many heads, Cylinders on a Quantum 540?

by edick＠idcomm.com

Yes, Don, that's what I've thought up to now as it agrees with my literature, but if Allison says she has a 1005 that works with an ST506 drive, ... well ... she's got what she's got. I have one setup with a 1007V-SE and another with a 1007-WA2. The former is a bit fancier but mainly there's a performance difference directly attributable to the on-board hardware. Happy New Year! Dick -----Original Message----- From: Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 3:33 PM Subject: Re: how many heads, Cylinders on a Quantum 540? > > >On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote: > >> GAWD! That's really a confusing mess! I always thought WD got its >> board-level products badly mixed up number-wise, but this is beyond what I'd >> feared. >> >> I have two flavors of 1007, which are definitely ESDI, only one 1006, though >> it's the MFM version, no EPROM, but I did at one time have a 1005 which was >> definitely for ESDI and a 1006 which had the RLL chips (5xxx-series) and >> turned the MFM drive into an RLL easily enough. > >Reviewing the listing from TheRef, I find that the HDCs divide like >this: 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, and 1006 are all ST412 interface > 1005, 1007, and 1009 are all ESDI interface. > >Within the ST412 grouping are both MFM and RLL controllers. There is >only one version of the 1005, but multiple versions of the 1007 and >1009. > >Note that I delimited the above to HDCs to avoid addressing the 1002-FOX >FDC! > > - don > >> ...and I thought the bridge controller boards were badly numbered! >> >> Dick >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> >> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers >> <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >> Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 10:07 AM >> Subject: Re: how many heads, Cylinders on a Quantum 540? >> >> >> ><No offense, Allison, but the 1007 and 1005 controllers won't work with tha >> ><drive at all, as both 1005 and 1007 are ESDI controllers. You may be >> ><thinking of the 1006's which come in both MFM and RLL. The 1006 WITH an >> ><EPROM on it is the RLL version, while the MFM version uses the >> ><motherboard-resident BIOS to handle the HDD. >> > >> >I could be off on the 1007 though I have NO edsi drives and am using 1005 >> >and WD1007 (least that what the markings are) and both are PC using D540s. >> >Also my 1006 was used with them in the current system before I went IDE. >> >Note we may be talking across part numbers as I have three 1005s that >> >are each decidedly different from each other yet, the primary part of the >> >part number is WD1005! I also have 4 flavors of 1002, three differnt >> >lengths, one surface mount! Of all the PC controllers from WDC I have >> >about ten, starting with the 1002 also the 1003, 1005, 1006 and 1007. >> >The only EDSI controller I have is a non WD design and I don't ahve drives >> >for that. >> > >> ><ESDI is a high-level interface not at all like the "ultra-dumb" >> ><ST-506/ST-412 interface this drive claims to have, though it does use >> cable >> ><of similar configuration, hence has similar connectors. >> > >> >Ah, I do know the difference. >> > >> ><This drive is commonly used with MFM, though its speed control, etc, is >> ><capable of RLL densities as are most "MFM" drives. >> > >> >I've found it to be more successful than others though RD53s (micropolus >> >1325s 71mb) were really nice at 100mb RLL and pretty reliable till they got >> >old. >> > >> >Allison >> > >> >> >

24 years, 11 months

how many heads, Cylinders on a Quantum 540?

by edick＠idcomm.com

GAWD! That's really a confusing mess! I always thought WD got its board-level products badly mixed up number-wise, but this is beyond what I'd feared. I have two flavors of 1007, which are definitely ESDI, only one 1006, though it's the MFM version, no EPROM, but I did at one time have a 1005 which was definitely for ESDI and a 1006 which had the RLL chips (5xxx-series) and turned the MFM drive into an RLL easily enough. ...and I thought the bridge controller boards were badly numbered! Dick -----Original Message----- From: Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Friday, December 31, 1999 10:07 AM Subject: Re: how many heads, Cylinders on a Quantum 540? ><No offense, Allison, but the 1007 and 1005 controllers won't work with tha ><drive at all, as both 1005 and 1007 are ESDI controllers. You may be ><thinking of the 1006's which come in both MFM and RLL. The 1006 WITH an ><EPROM on it is the RLL version, while the MFM version uses the ><motherboard-resident BIOS to handle the HDD. > >I could be off on the 1007 though I have NO edsi drives and am using 1005 >and WD1007 (least that what the markings are) and both are PC using D540s. >Also my 1006 was used with them in the current system before I went IDE. >Note we may be talking across part numbers as I have three 1005s that >are each decidedly different from each other yet, the primary part of the >part number is WD1005! I also have 4 flavors of 1002, three differnt >lengths, one surface mount! Of all the PC controllers from WDC I have >about ten, starting with the 1002 also the 1003, 1005, 1006 and 1007. >The only EDSI controller I have is a non WD design and I don't ahve drives >for that. > ><ESDI is a high-level interface not at all like the "ultra-dumb" ><ST-506/ST-412 interface this drive claims to have, though it does use cable ><of similar configuration, hence has similar connectors. > >Ah, I do know the difference. > ><This drive is commonly used with MFM, though its speed control, etc, is ><capable of RLL densities as are most "MFM" drives. > >I've found it to be more successful than others though RD53s (micropolus >1325s 71mb) were really nice at 100mb RLL and pretty reliable till they got >old. > >Allison >

24 years, 11 months

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test-drb December 1999