Well yesterday was a great day as I added 17 more manuals to my collection and some items that are not yet ten years old. I also picked up Toshiba T1200 not working right now, no charger for battery. I got a HP 35660A Dynamic Signal Analyzer. The other 15 items range from Apple to IBM to Maxtor and where 4 to 8 years old and will go into storage for display later. I started working on my web site and hope it have it up soon with pictures. Keep Computing John
A quick pair of questions to the list out of curiosity:
Do you think there is much data out there on older storage
media (paper tape, punch cards, 7-track tape, 9-track tape)
that is waiting to be converted to newer (cd-rom, 8mm) media?
Are there commercial firms that specialize in such transfers/
conversions of data from older media to newer media?
Regards,
Kevin Anderson
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Kevin L. Anderson Ph.D., Geography Department, Augustana College
Rock Island, Illinois 61201-2296, USA phone: (309) 794-7325
e-mail: kla(a)helios.augustana.edu -or- gganderson(a)augustana.edu
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<> <Today I bought a SC/MP wirewrapped board. Does anyone know of a site
<with
<> <data sheet? My search came up with what is known as "SC/MP II",
<including
<> <description of a "MK14" project in Practical Electronics mag. In
<> <particular, the chip on my board requires an unknown neg. voltage on =
<pin
<> <40, instead of +5 Volts on the later NMOS versions. The actual part =
<No.
<is
<> <ISP-8A/500D
<
<Some time ago i found one of these systems. It also included the =
<original datasheets from National. It says that the voltage on pin 40 =
<must be -7Volt. =20
<When you need more info i can send you a scan of the datasheets.
There are two versions of the SC/MP the older Pmos part that requires +5V
and -7V and the later NMOS part that only wants +5. They are nearly
identical elsewise.
<Unfortunately my system doesn't function. So i'm looking for the =
<scematics. Maybe you can help me out?=20
I'd have to dig deep for them, I know I have them for the commercial board.
Then I'd have to copy them as they are real paper and I don't have a working
scanner just yet.
Oh, I'm here in eastern USA.
Allison
Hello, all:
Well, my next project is an embedded Web server project for my
to-be-built home weather station. I got myself the nice 486 SBC from BG
Micro, but it doesn't have an Ethernet interface.
So...I need a PC/104 Ethernet board. I'm looking for a used one, so long
as it has drivers.
Any pointers??
Rich
[ Rich Cini/WUGNET
[ ClubWin!/CW1
[ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
[ Collector of "classic" computers
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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<I've heard rumors of at least one cluster with an uptime measured in years
<Me, I'm only at 18 days, but then I just put the system into production,
<and most of the time there is only one machine in the cluster (yeh, that
<doens't make a lot of sense).
I've run MicrovaxIIs for over 11 months at a time before the local lighting
company failed. Most of my systems average 2-3months between power downs
(deliberate). I turn them on and boot, wait a few and work, and work,
and work. the only reason I don't get longer uptimes it I prefer to only
keep one system up before feeding the power company so that system gets all
the uptime (MV3100) and that runs nominally 6-9months from the end of winter
to hurricaine season without reboot.
Allison
> I haven't run any direct timings, but my 3100/80 seems much more responsive
>than an Alpha 3000/300LX running VMS v7.2.
It's been my (unofficial) experience that a VAX usually seems about as
fast as an Alpha running at twice the clock rate; so my 4000/96 at 83Mhz
or thereabouts is roughly equal to my 3000/600 at 150MHz or thereabouts.
Of course, every now and then the Alpha slaps you over the head to let
you know that it's really fast.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
There's no reason why not. When you say disk driver, I assume you mean disk
drive (the DRIVE is the piece of hardware into which you put the diskette,
the DRIVER is the software with which you operate it).
How you go about it will depend on a number of factors, however. Mostly
it's how much work you want to do. The AIM65 ( I have a couple of them) did
not come with a disk drive or an interface to one. You must have some
information about your particular interface. If you do, that will shed
light on the details.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: OLIVIERO.A(a)mail.omnitel.it <OLIVIERO.A(a)mail.omnitel.it>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 2:15 PM
Subject: Aim 65
Hello, i have a machine based on AIM 65: it is used to command a texile
machine. I need to substite the disk driver. Do you know if it's possible to
adapt a standard driver (such a 3 1/2 drive) to this machine?
Thanks,
Angelo Oliviero
<Ah... you needed the scripts I wrote eleven years ago... they would
<build a console TU58 with EXCHANGE and sling the files out to the tape
<in the right order. The benefit was that apparently the microprocessor
<in the TU58 (at least on the 11/730, don't know about the 11/750) would
<buffer the directory so that the only seeks were to *read* files, not to
<*locate* the files.
The majik was to assemble a freshly inited tape with the files in the
correct order, or you end up doing rewind/seek operations and they are
slow.
There were other TU58 tricks for RT11 like putting "bad" blocks at the ends
so the tape would not have wraparound files. Ya know, 3 blocks at the end
and then rewind completely to get the next four.
Allison
Has anyone heard anything more about this? I'm trying to
restore a PDP-10 (KS10) and would love to find an image
of the distribution tapes (and any other relevant info...)
- al
- acorda(a)geocities.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth [mailto:sethm@loomcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 2:04 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: PDP-10 Software Archive
>
>
> > [...] but very shortly (as in the next week or two) there
> > will be a public archive available with TOPS-10
> distribution tape images,
> > sources, build kits, etc. Total quantity of stuff (at the
> moment) is
> > in the few hundred megabyte range, and will likely grow a bit by
> > announcement time. Keep your ears peeled to alt.sys.pdp10
> for details.
> >
> > There will be about 200-300 Megabytes of PDP-10 (TOPS-10
> and TOPS-20)
> > DECUS freeware, too.
>
> Tim, you RULE!
>
> (and/or whoever's making the archive available, too!)
>
> -Seth
>
