Oh I will celebrate a year early but I think I'll realise my mistake the day
after and have to do it all over again the next year. Oh well life is tough.
Francois
>Suffice it to say, I am not going to change my usage of the work
>'kilobyte' becase of some committee... Just as I am not celebrating the
>millennium a year early either.
>-tony
>
Can someone please help me out... I just got my Exidy s-100 expansion box
for the Sorcerer. Now, all I need is the Sorcerer. ;)
Will someone please sell me one?
Thanks
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
Fellow in Stamford, CT's got some DEC'ish and generic media both free
and for sale. Get in contact directly if you're interested.
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 10:44:55 -0500, in alt.sys.pdp11 you wrote:
>>From: Kelvin Smith <74654.3313(a)CompuServe.COM>
>>Subject: Media free/FS
>>Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736)
>>Message-ID: <eQnBc0Ic#GA.332(a)nih2naaf.prod2.compuserve.com>
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>>The following media are available as we transition to new hardware.
>>On all items, either you pick up or pay shipping from Stamford, CT.
>>
>>1) 7 RA60P disk packs - free.
>>
>>2) 5 RL02K-DC disk packs - free.
>>
>>3) 9-track tapes, used (offers on as many or as few as you want welcomed):
>>
>> 90 3600' 3M Black Watch 703 tapes, EZ-Load II cartridges, $5 or best offer.
>> 100 2400' 3M Black Watch 700 tapes, EZ-Load II cartridges, $3 or B.O.
>> 70 2400' tapes, various manufacturers, tape seals, $3 or B.O.
>> 50 600' tapes, various manufacturers, tape seals, $1 or B.O.
>> 6 600' tapes, new 3M Black Watch, tape seals, $4 or B.O.
>>
>>4) 2 120-tape 9-track tape racks (6 high, 20 wide): $25 each or B.O.
>> Preference given to someone who also buys tapes.
>>
>>Kelvin Smith
>>Financial Computer Systems, Inc.
>>Stamford, CT
>>(203) 357-0504
>>Fax: 357-8031
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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..."
<> Tu60 phillips digital cassette PDP-8, PDP-11 mostly
<I've never seen this referred to officially as DECtape. It was called
<DECcassette. Since this was not a block-addressable random access device,
<it is substantially less like DECtape than the TU58, and couldn't be used
<as a "system device" for OS/8 or RT11.
True, though I've seen and heard it called dectape... Not a very good device
compared to the TU55/56 or the TU58.
<My arm could be twisted to make a tape available, but it sounds like you wa
<a transport, and they are hard to come by.
Yep! It doesn't have to be electronically complete or working but
mechanically complete would be nice plus a few tapes.
<I've partially completed a caching SCSI controller for the TU56 drive.
I'd like to try working on a ECP parallel interface to one. It's mostly to
realize what I'd done in the '70s with home grown tapes based on cassette
transports trying to make something as good as DECtape!
Allison
Hey folks...
I have this SX 64 layng around that I really can't use. I don't need YET
ANOTHER DIFFERENT SYSTEM (YADS).
It has all the kit including the keyboard cord and a copy of GEOS. I can't
do much with it except boot GEOS. Seems to be okay. (I only say that
because I don't rightly know, since I have no other software). Only
physical problem is a loose, but not broken, handle attachment.
I know it's "worth" between $1 and $300 depending on how badly your
perceived need.
I'll be glad to let it go for $75 + shipping, unless someone wants a tax
writeoff and wants to spend $300.00 (please talk to your accountant first).
I'm sure it's probably Y2K compatible just incase you want to run some
critical monitoring system on it.
Email me off line if you want to play.
mallison(a)konnections.com
If you're in Northern Utah, Wendover (UT, NV) or Evanston WY I'll deliver
the bad boy for free....
-Mike
<For reference, when I get it going, my 3100's name will be Tabby. As in
<tabby.litterbox.com. It's sort of a running joke that all my servers have
<cat names. :)
My vax was off the ROYALT cluster as a end node then later routing as
VIDSYS::, I still have it and it's still VIDSYS::. the other nodes are
PIPER, BEECH, CESSNA, MOONEY, AIRPT and AIRPLN::.
Did I mention I'm a pilot? ;)
Allison
As a user of TU58, the tapes are better than most. I have at least three
operational on PDP-11s. At 256k/drive/tape they are small but the serial
interface is easy to use(with anything).
DECTAPE is a generic DECism for small tapes.
Tu55/56 the 3/4" tape on reels Most PDP-n before 1973ish
Tu60 phillips digital cassette PDP-8, PDP-11 mostly
TU58 DC100 cartridge, DEC unique format. PDP-11, VAX730, VAX750
I'd love to have a TU55/56 Dectape (the open reel style).
Allison
On Mar 16, 15:10, James Willing wrote:
> On 16 Mar 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
> > For the uninitiated, DECtapes are six-inch reels of 3/4 inch (?) tape.
>
> Ummm... almost... four inch reels of 1 inch tape...
I can play this game too :-) Nope, DECtape is 3/4" tape, and if I were
really nitpicky I'd say they were a little under 4" diameter.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
