I've got a Livingston Portmaster IRX terminal server / router for
trade for something interesting of equal or lesser value ($150 or so)
if anybody's interested... mail me for more details.
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Oh, I forgot one thing . . . I DO have the manual for the 860 series drives,
but it's kind-of hard to get at for the holidays, since I'm being induced to
put away my toys.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stek <bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: 8" drives and Compaticard / Uniform
>Dick (or anyone else) -
>
>Would you have the jumper settings (default positions, definitions, etc.)
>for a Shugart 860? DS0-3 I can figure out. But the rest...
>
>I have just added 2 8"ers to my AT via a Compaticard. I have them working
>as MS-DOS drives D: and E: just fine, but when I use Uniform it always
>accesses the 360K B: drive instead of the 8". I've got the Compaticard
>manual, set up the board as the secondary, tertiary, and quartiary(?)
>controller, tried EVERY combination of drive #'s (0-15), twisted and
>straight cables, different cable combo's, different DS's on the drives, and
>it STILL won't do anything but try to access the B: drive (when it accesses
>anything at all) when I use Uniform to access the F:(CP/M) drive. I even
>tried ASSIGNing the B: drive.
>
>So close but yet so far....
>
>Bob Stek
>bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com
>Saver of Lost SOLs
>
>
I'm not as "into" the CompatiCard, which, by the way, I just recently sold
for a pretty good price, as I might be, but I do recall that there was
jumpering information in the manual. What you nave to do is figure out what
the equivalent jumpering for an SA850 would have been. I don't think there
was 850-specific information, but as I recall, the manual didn't suggest one
could use more than one 8" drive, either. There's information on the
MicroSolutions web site, as I'm told. Perhaps they can help you.
regards,
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stek <bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: 8" drives and Compaticard / Uniform
>Dick (or anyone else) -
>
>Would you have the jumper settings (default positions, definitions, etc.)
>for a Shugart 860? DS0-3 I can figure out. But the rest...
>
>I have just added 2 8"ers to my AT via a Compaticard. I have them working
>as MS-DOS drives D: and E: just fine, but when I use Uniform it always
>accesses the 360K B: drive instead of the 8". I've got the Compaticard
>manual, set up the board as the secondary, tertiary, and quartiary(?)
>controller, tried EVERY combination of drive #'s (0-15), twisted and
>straight cables, different cable combo's, different DS's on the drives, and
>it STILL won't do anything but try to access the B: drive (when it accesses
>anything at all) when I use Uniform to access the F:(CP/M) drive. I even
>tried ASSIGNing the B: drive.
>
>So close but yet so far....
>
>Bob Stek
>bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com
>Saver of Lost SOLs
>
>
Worse yet, they were rewarded! What was really crazy was that I could do
all the stuff I needed done on my desktop PC, but the department madated
that the HP system be used, which meant that although my design was complete
and the boards sent out for wirewrap and returned, tested, etc, while the
first-level simulations are still (well the project was cut short ...) in
day-for-day slip (for over 10 years now) because HP's simulation model
libraries used the same filenames, yet their content was mixed, i.e.
different simulation timing resolutions, etc. They had no models for
currrent generation (then) parts, so each component had to be ordered
separately at HUGE cost. In the time it took the thing to simuate a single
flip-flop, I could walk the considerable distance to my office, start up my
PC-XT, ( I had to bring my own because the company preferred MAC's, for
which no useful software existed) load the software and the files and run
and subsequently print my simulation, and still had time to walk back to my
diligently running $50K workstation and drink a cup of coffee waiting for it
to finish the simulation. A typical simulation that took 20 seocnds on my
PC-XT took 15-30 minutes on the HP, and that was only in the rare instance
when everything worked.
During the year that these guys made their trade study, they didn't consider
machines from Mentor, Daisy, or Cadnetix, which were the three leaders in
the industry at the time. In fact, neither of them had even heard of those
three. Now, I think they should have been fired, not paid multiple tens of
K-bucks in "performance awards" for this boondoggle.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey l Kaneko <jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Hewlett Packard A2094 Monitor (Standard RGB ?)
>
>
>On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:44:04 -0700 "Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com>
>writes:
>> "real" work. HP got into CAE in '88 when they bought Apollo, and
>announced
>> it was getting out in '91, leaving everyone who'd bought their
>> hardware/software in the lurch. Meanwhile, Martin promoted and/or paid
>> bonuses to the fools who had bought in to the previously unheard-of and
>> inexperienced CAE/CAD vendor HP turned out to be.
>>
>> Dick
>
>So it *really* is true then: 'Nobody ever got fired for buying HP'.
>
>
>Jeff
>
>
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I've got a mint-condition (looks brand new) IBM 3151 amber terminal that
I'm in need of the VT100/ANSI emulation card for, or I need to find someone
who will swap me an equivalent dumb terminal that does VT100/ANSI for it...
Thanks.
Bill
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Windows NT for mission-critical applications."
-- What Yoda *meant* to say
START? DL0 worked great! Many thanks for the lended hand.
-----Original Message-----
From: Megan <mbg(a)world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: PDP 11/23 Help
>
>>I just picked up a PDP 11/23 in excellent condition from an accountant
>>that was going to dispose of it. It has two RL02 drives and 10 disk
>>packs. My background in DEC stuff is only VMS, so I checked around and
>>found some info on booting the machine, which I did successfully.. once.
>>I was able to get a directory listing and type a few files. The system
>>has RT-11 v4.00 with a runtime package in Dibol for general ledger, etc.
>>I halted the machine and tried to restart it again, only this time it
>>complains.
>
>Congrats on the acquisition...
>
>>The display I'm getting is..
>>
>>TESTING MEMORY
>>0124.KW
>>START? Y
>>000010
>>@
>
>Sounds like either the boot board (if the CPU is an 11/23, it is
>probably a BDV11, if an 11/23+, it has the BDV-style boot roms), or
>the device interface.
>
>Since it is supposed to have RLs, try typing 'DL0' at the 'Start?'
>prompt. If this doesn't work, then I would suspect the RLV
>interface...
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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Upon the date 01:17 PM 12/13/99 -0600, Kevin L. Anderson said something like:
>I have my original Zenith (ZDS) Z-150 computer, which was their
>answer to the IBM 8088/86 PC. This was also offered as a kit
>from Heathkit (as the H-150?) in the mid-1980s.
>
>My Z-150 currently won't start up, with lights stopping in the BIOS PROM
>startup sequence. Does anyone have the equivalent Heathkit assembly
>manual(s) and drawings for this system? Or are there similar systems
>around that board swapping might be possible?
Hi Kevin,
I don't have technical manuals for the 150's like I do for my earlier 8-bit
Heath machines (H-8 & H-89). Perhaps another listmember has one to refer to
(Tony?). Chips were socketed on these machines so try carefully pressing
them into their sockets in case there is an intermittent connection causing
the problem. Place the board onto an antistatic bag upon a firm padded
surface which will help you do this.
What's the status of those lights (the LEDs on the CPU board)? Have an
Operating Manual? I think I recall something about interpreting the LEDs in
that book. I've got one somewhere up in the library.
I've got a big heap of 150's down in the back garage which I am planning
to: (A) Hammer together working systems and maybe sell for cheeeeep, (B)
provide parts for folks like you, or (C) scrap that which is not
desired/useable. Methinks (C) is the ultimate fate of most of the pile
nowadays, (A) is somewhat folly, butcha never know ;-)
Seems item (B) is just for you. Email me. I think there's at least 15 Z-150
boxen I've got -all from work when we moved up to 386/486 and later machines.
Regards, Chris
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:44:04 -0700 "Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com>
writes:
> "real" work. HP got into CAE in '88 when they bought Apollo, and
announced
> it was getting out in '91, leaving everyone who'd bought their
> hardware/software in the lurch. Meanwhile, Martin promoted and/or paid
> bonuses to the fools who had bought in to the previously unheard-of and
> inexperienced CAE/CAD vendor HP turned out to be.
>
> Dick
So it *really* is true then: 'Nobody ever got fired for buying HP'.
Jeff
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>There was a lot of local interest in these machines back in about '78. =
>California Digital, a sometime surplus vendor
Still a reliable surplus vendor, incidentally:
http://www.cadigital.com/
Perhaps the best-known NOS selection of 8" floppy drives anywhere in the
world, as well as 8" media and cleaning kits.
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