I have the docs on that board and additional info on hidden things in the
setup for it. With a PAL change it can be a disk and tape controller as
well. If we can find some blanks I could make a copy for you.
Dan
>Thanks to everyone and some additional snooping the tape drive is indeed an
>Exabyte 8200 8MM SCSI tape drive. It is connected to a SCSI board labelled
> "TD Systems Inc"
> "VIK/QTO #2719"
>and a rom labelled:
> "Viking Q/B A3.1"
>(presumably QBus)
>
>Now to see what OSes support the board and if I can find docs ...
>--Chuck
>
>
Thanks to everyone and some additional snooping the tape drive is indeed an
Exabyte 8200 8MM SCSI tape drive. It is connected to a SCSI board labelled
"TD Systems Inc"
"VIK/QTO #2719"
and a rom labelled:
"Viking Q/B A3.1"
(presumably QBus)
Now to see what OSes support the board and if I can find docs ...
--Chuck
Hey,
Not all of us can find Altairs. So I had to brag about whatever it is that I
got. (I would prefer to brag about an Altair though)
How many of have the IBM PCjr Carrying Case?
Francois
>Francois,
>
> Whatever floats your boat!
>
> Joe
>
>At 09:25 AM 2/27/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>Fine,
>>I got a complete PCjr with pretty much all of the peripherals ever made
for
>>it, two joysticks, color monitor, a box of software and the carrying case.
>>So there!
>>Francois
>>
>>
I was feeling nostalgic tonight, so I went out to the loft in the shop
and dug around and found an old TI Silent 700 portable terminal that I
picked up somewhere along the way.
It needed a little bit of work...the paper-advance stepper had seized
up, but a little TLC there got it happy again, and the solenoid that
pulls the thermal printhead away from the paper when the paper advances
was way out of adjustment. After tinkering with it for a while, I
powered it up, and it seems to work great.
The machine is a "Model 745 Portable" with built-in acoustic coupler
cups at the rear of the machine. It works at 300 or 110 baud.
I actually dug out an old Western Electric phone (most of the new
telephones today have handsets that won't fit into an acoustic coupler
cup) and dialed up my Sun Unix system (which has a couple of 28.8 modems
hanging off it), and stuffed the phone handset into the cups, and viola...
a (upper case only) LOGIN: prompt! Heck, there was even a termcap for it!
The terminal works great...I loaded up the PDP-11 simulator, and loaded
the image for RT-11, and played around for a while. It brought back
some memories, no doubt! The acoustic coupler worked fantastic...no
glitches, except when the dog barked at a noise outside...and I got a few
@'s printed.
The first question for y'all is this: On the rear panel of the machine is
a DB-15 male connector...my assumption this is for hooking up a (RS232 or
current-loop) 'direct connection' to the terminal. I don't have any
documentation
for the machine, and am wondering if anyone out there might know the pinout
for this connector.
The next question is: Anyone know where I could find the thermal paper for
this
thing? I've got a good sized roll of it in the machine, and a spare roll
still
in the wrapper, but my guess is that as time goes on, it's only going to
become
more and more difficult to find. Anyone know if thermal FAX machine paper
in
roll form would work?
Happy retrocomputing,
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculators Web Pages
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7510
Hi,
I got this request from another transputer user. Apparently he has
a T9000 SuperCluster with no documentation & software. Parsys Ltd
is no longer in business, so does anyone have the so mentioned software
and documentation. Thanks.
Ram
PS: He also has a network interface card that is called IMSB013 and the
transputer motherboard that looks like a TMB12 from Transtech. He also
has all the power supplies and the case.
>I have one question...if you read the DEC/Compaq license
>agreement at: http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/license_terms.html
>you'll see that the agreement is only for one year.
>What happens after one year?
The license PAK's you get issued expires after one year. At this point,
you re-register with DECUS and they issue you a set of new PAK's.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
Upon the date 03:21 AM 2/24/99 -0800, Sellam Ismail said something like:
>
>Did Hans Franke die or something? I haven't heard even a peep from that
>loquacious Bavarian in a while.
Yeah, it has been a bit quiet around here :)
I wonder if he's away from home on business. He works for Siemens Business
Services (www.sbs.de) in Munich and I think I recall that he manages
software development projects. SBS is a rather large systems integrator,
consultant and outsourcing provider, so he could be anywhere on a job.
Christine works there too in the Human Resources dept.
>
>Maybe John Zabolitzky has heard from him in the past few weeks?
>
>Christian, do you have his telephone number by any chance?
No, I haven't yet got his number although Beverly and I plan to _someday_
get back over there (depending on my job schedule whenever I find a new
job) and should get it anyway. I find there are seven phone listings for
Hans Franke in M?nchen and I don't know his exact address either. John Z.
could dig deeper over there I'm sure.
He'll reappear sometime I'm sure. I think this group is a bunch he can't
stay away from now :)
Regards, Chris
-- --
Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL: http://www.ggw.org/awa
Hi Stan,
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> From: ss(a)allegro.com
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Program V2.0
> Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 11:20 AM
> I have one question...if you read the DEC/Compaq license
> agreement at: http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/license_terms.html
> you'll see that the agreement is only for one year.
>
> What happens after one year?
You sign up again ;-))
Same as in the old hobbyist license ...
cheers,
emanuel
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