Hello.
Does anyone have access to a working PDP-10 and a copy of ADVENT? I need to
get an image of the program running on the system.
Please email privately...
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Hi! Just out of curiousity, does anybody have a spare cable set for a KDA50 they
might be interested in getting rid of? :) Willing to pay reasonable unit cost
plus all shipping and handling charges.
Thanks!
-Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net)
--- Anthony Clifton - KC0CUE <wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com> wrote:
> (1) Cisco IGS Multiprotocol Router/Bridge
> and a couple miscellaneous bits and pieces. Not bad for $10.
Ooh! I'm looking for an ethernet board for my AGS+ router - it'll be
multibus. I have a quad V.35 ("fast serial") board in there now that
does me no good. It has those compact Cisco connectors, not the standard,
huge-pin V.35 connectors.
Any leads on old Cisco parts? Anyone?
-ethan
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>One fellow who bought a half dozen of these workstations put them in his
>pickup, opened the boxes up, took out the memory (apparently and odd
>flavor), then drove over to the dumpster and tossed the
workstations/servers
>in the dumpster and left.
I ended up with 5 of these HP Apollo 400's.. In each of them I found a 230
MB SCSI Hard Drive, a 68040 Processor, and an 8 or 16 MB 72pin Simm in each.
After I remove the 3 components I will discard the remaining cases..
But first I am going to hook up the 19 inch HP monitor to one of Apollo's
just to see what happens, enjoy the event and them toss that nice Very
Expensive (Original Cost) monitor out with the rest of the stuff..
Phil..
<I have a weird question. Could a Northstar MPU-A be used in a normal S100
<chassis with other cards to provide console, disk, i/o, memory functions?
Very common question bad when. It will work. I've used them in:
Altair,
Imsai,
CCS
Compupro,
Intergrand
Vector MX
TEI box
<If yes, what issues can arise from doing this?
Watch for pins 53, 61, 20, 70, and also if exteneded address lines (above
A15) are used the MPU-A is only 16 bit.
<The reason I ask is that I have a nice clean empty TEI chassis, a Northstar
<cards, some memory boards, an SMB multifunction i/o card and a Disk Jockey
<2D. I'm sure the thing would end up being fairly weird, but I don't care
<about that.
Not weird at all. Your building what could be considered a typical S100
crate for the time. Many of them were not pure by any means.
Go for it.
Allison
That should certainly be the case with the N* CPU I recently gave to one of
the list participants. It had no hardware on board which would prevent it
>from working with pretty much any other S-100 hardware, aside from the usual
risk, since there were no real standards, even after the adoption of the
IEEE P696 standard. With more signals than were needed, it was always
possible another maker's card might expect different combinations of signals
to do the same job.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Clifton - KC0CUE <wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: Northstar CPU Card in Regular S100 Bus?
>
>I have a weird question. Could a Northstar MPU-A be used in a normal S100
bus
>chassis with other cards to provide console, disk, i/o, memory functions?
>
>If no, why not?
>
>If yes, what issues can arise from doing this?
>
>The reason I ask is that I have a nice clean empty TEI chassis, a Northstar
CPU
>cards, some memory boards, an SMB multifunction i/o card and a Disk Jockey
>2D. I'm sure the thing would end up being fairly weird, but I don't care
>about
>that.
>
>Just exploring ideas for misc hardware sitting around my basement.
>
>Anthony Clifton
>
>
Hi. I recovered a couple of Xerox tape drives for the Daybreak
workstation, but I can't get any of them working on my PC. Does anyone
have the specs for it? Is it a true QIC drive? Can anyone give me a
hand on getting it to work with linux ftape drivers?
Cheers,
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I have a weird question. Could a Northstar MPU-A be used in a normal S100 bus
chassis with other cards to provide console, disk, i/o, memory functions?
If no, why not?
If yes, what issues can arise from doing this?
The reason I ask is that I have a nice clean empty TEI chassis, a Northstar CPU
cards, some memory boards, an SMB multifunction i/o card and a Disk Jockey
2D. I'm sure the thing would end up being fairly weird, but I don't care
about
that.
Just exploring ideas for misc hardware sitting around my basement.
Anthony Clifton
This weekend I saved most of a uVAX II from the scrapper. It is a
configuration I didn't recognize with two BA23's. One "normal BA23 and then
a Q22 jumper into a second BA23. The rack "sleeves" were connected across
the back with a hinged door that held all the cabinet hardware. Pretty neat.
Anyway, in what was a total shock, the thing has a "Transitional Technology
Inc, QTD-1" Q-bus SCSI controller! If this thing works I'll be in heaven
since I've yet to get a working SCSI disk controller for my Vaxen.
This looks kind of like a Viking controller, except it has several key (and
hopefully really good) differences:
1) It has a 10 pin header that looks like the DEC standard DLV-11 type serial
port (rather than the viking "in the scsi cable" port.)
2) It has an NCR53C90 SCSI interface, and 18 nat'l semi 75176BN chips wired up
to the 50 pin connector. (I'm hoping these are differential drivers for
FAST
SCSI II drives)
3) Then it has a Motorola M68901 a covered 40 pin chip (probably the
processor)
and one RCA 6264 ram chip and a 27C256 EPROM with the "1.7a" firmware
in it.
Has anyone used one of these? Do you have docs on it? Would you be willing
to FAX me the setup information? (I've got a 9GB SCSI drive just waiting
for this type of information :-)
Other interesting bits was the KA630 + 2 8MB memory boards (M7609), a
DHV-11, an M8020 SLU, and an SDI controller (two board set.) The BA23's
suffered some damage when they were ripped from the rack (which I didn't
save) but there seems to be a salvagable TK50 in one of them and a Q/Q
backplane. (The second BA23 was all Q/Q slots!
--Chuck
