I'm still digging. I found more 550 stuff. I think this is everything
that came with the 550. Here's a chance for you 550 owner's to get the
whole set at one shot!
Original DS-DOS box and invoice.
Original Sanyo Easywriter ver 1.3 disk
Original Sanyo disk box with 550 dos ver 2.11 and BASIC 1.25, two
original Sanyo disk for InfoStar (set B disk 2 and 3 of 4; disks 1 and 4
are below), original Sanyo disk for DOS 1.25 and BASIC ver 1.1
Original Sanyo disk box with all three original disk of set A, WordStar
and CalcStar and a backup copy of DS-DOS.
Two card board dummy disks used to protect the floppy drives duing shipment.
Joe
>
>A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone
mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track
drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron.
>
> Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One
of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the
other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In
additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that
came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and
they're all your's.
>
> Joe
I recently filled the car with these:
Apollo DOMAIN Series 3500
Domain series 3000 model 3010
HP/Apollo series 400
(2) Sun 3/60 + tape drive and tapes
Sun 3/50
Apple lisa 2
(2) apple II Ci
Mac SE/30 with radius monitor
Mac color classic
Quadra 610
Quadra 800
Quadra 860
power mac 7200/90
Also available was a volker Craig terminal, and a copy
apple's unix
I also have "quite a pile of HP 712/715/725s in various
condition" for me to pick up when I get some space cleared.
IKEA has said that the missing piece to complete the
shelving will be delayed another 3 weeks, and my wife says
no more machines until the shelves are up!
hey do you have any ideas about using relays or some thing connected to a parallel or aerial port to control the power to an outlet, you know like a dimmer switch controlling motors ETC
if you have any thought or ideas I'd be glad to hear them.
>Also, if anyone wants one of these things, $10 plus shipping. The
>condition
>is unknown since I haven't fired them up ... and they don't include
>keyboards :).
Do you know how much shipping will be?
I am getting my PDP-11/34 and my RK05 disk drives and packs tommorrow, and I have a few questions.They have have been in storage for years, and, although they have been kept dry, they are probably dusty. Can anyone tell me how to clean the drives and the disk packs before I use them?
Thanks,
Owen
Hello Classiccmp.
I recently acquired a nice, rust-free, mostly-original 11/45 from
an old lisp hacker in Los Altos Hills, CA. He told me that it had been
running the last time he'd powered it up, which was in 1984 IIRC, but
sadly, something has gone awry and it won't run now, though it seems to be
close. Here's a brief summary of its status:
It was originally a five-rack system with each rack containing the
controllers for the housed peripherals. The bus was chained through to
each rack on a BC05 and terminated with an M930. I only took the
processor and the TU-10 racks, so to make troubleshooting easier, I
reduced the system to only the CPU and memory boxes (memory is a 220KB
box from Monolithic Systems that has unibus in and out). The processor
has 12 KW of core as well, so I guess I could cut the bus down a bit more
for the purpose of debugging.
Mode of failure is such:
I powered up the shortened system and the front panel lights lit
[excitement]. Then I tried to examine some memory locations via the
panel, but when I hit HALT, the RUN light stayed lit. I tried every
combination of switches I thought was appropriate, but the RUN light
wouldn't go off. (Sounds like a simple bus error, really.) Upon
realizing that something was amiss, I decabled all the power connectors
>from the logic and tested the voltages, which, surprisingly, were all
about 6%-9% above spec (and I'm not too sure that my VOM is accurate even
though it's analog). I didn't readjust the voltages, but reconnected the
power cables to the logic boards and retested the voltage levels. All
stayed about the same except for the -15VDC. It dropped to about 2V. Same
reading on both -15V regulators, by the way, and they seem to be connected
to different areas of the backplane, but I'm not sure. There seems to be
a high-pitch squeal (that sound of a laboring regulator) coming from
somewhere in the power supply cluster, but there's no smoke or crackling
sounds. I don't remember noticing the squeal with the power cables
disconnected, but that may be a subconscious hope and not a fact.
So that's my predicament. I don't have much time to mess with
this beautiful old girl, so I hope someone here can increase my repairing
efficiency.
Help me save this great piece of computing history. In return,
I'll at least give you an account on it if I get it to the point where
it'll run 2.9BSD or V7. I have SMD interfaces and disks, etc and
everything else I need (except a DELQA) to get it hooked up to the net.
Thank you in advance.
jake
Does anyone have any sort of info on this thing? I just picked one up at a
garage sale for $1. The guy I bought it from had no info about it. He said
it was in the basement of his house when he bought the house...
The case is about 6" high by 15" wide. It has a 1.2 MB 5.25" floppy and a
ST-225 HD in it. It has a 286-10 CPU in it, but when "turbo" (it's software
controlled - "boost.exe" makes the computer beep then lights a green LED on
the front)is on, it clocks at 13.5 MHz (QADiagnostics). There is a 3.5" bay
that's the same height as a 5.25" floppy (anyone have a drive that'll fit in
here?), and the three LED's (green, red, green - power, HD, turbo) aren't
labeled. The cover over the HD bay is odd, too. It's frosted. Whenever
the computer's on, the green HD light can be seen through it, sort of like
the old Olivetti had.
The cards that it has are a standard MFM controller (although in a
non-standard place - it's set back About 1" from the back of the case, and
about 1" to the right of the card cage, and the ''tail" on the card's
mounting bracket goes through a hole in the motherboard)/ There's also a
standard CGA/composite video card, and an ARCnet LANcard. It has a BNC coax
connector on it.
As my luck would have it, though the "arcnet" directory was empty. All the
directories were empty but the DOS directory, and they all appear to have
hidden files, because I can't remove them.
The case is also made from a surprisingly heavy gauge of steel. All the
metal is about 1/32" thick, and it weighs about as much as a 5170 AT.
Anyone have any info on this? what it was mainly used for? Maybe a
keyboard to match? :)
ThAnX,
///--->>>
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
Nope. No free slot. The long slot has an IBM 3363 controller in it, and
the other slot won't accept a long cart, because it hits the cooling fan.
Anyone know what the short slot's for?
Yes, I do have the reverence disk. The P70 has 4 SIMM slots.
///--->>>
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 P70-386 SIMM needed...+ a couple other things...
>> On 7 Aug 99 at 18:48, Olminkhof wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > >Basically what I meant is banks of two. There's two SIMMS in a bank,
with
>> > 2
>> > >banks, totaling 4 SIMMS.
>> > >
>> > >If you install three 2 MB SIMMS, instead of getting a 6 MB memory
reading,
>> > >you'll get a 4 MB reading and a memory error.
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > Nope.
>> >
>> > You'll get a memory error until you run the reference disk. If you have
an
>> > error while running the reference disk then you have the wrong type of
>> > simms.
>> >
>> > It's not until you get to Pentiums that you need 72pin simms in pairs.
>> >
>> >
>> > >///--->>>
>> > > -Jason Willgruber
>> > >>
>> > >>I've never heard of this "sets of 2" stuff on these.
>> > >>They use the same simms as the desktop model 70 . . ie with
presence
>> > >>detect circuitry.
>> > >>
>> > >>Hans
>> > >>
>>
>> TMK most IBMs (as well as Ataris, Macs and NEXT) require matching simms
in
>> pairs, and as well presence detect in the case of MCA. There is a
hardware hack
>> to get around the P.D. on Peter Wendts site. While I have never tried to
add a
>> single simm physically except to expand the onboard memory of my 8580 to
4m
>> from 2 , IIRC all the docs mention this. I would certainly be delighted
if
>> this were not so. I have an IBM 486 Ambra (non-MCA) which also requires
memory
>> in pairs but doesn't require PD and a single spare non-IBM 8meg which
sits
>> unused because of this limitation. I have an 8570 A-21 desktop (25mhz and
387
>> co-processor) and other PS2s. There is also a 16 meg max limitation on
most of
>> the PS2s altho there are workarounds for this I understand.
>>
>> ciao larry
>> lwalker(a)interlog.com
>>
>
>I thought that at least one of the PS/2 model 70 motherboard versions came
>with 3 simm slots... I dont recall it needing simms in pairs on the
>motherboard, though it does use a non-standard, PS/2 style presence
>detect.
>
>Does the original poster have a free MCA slot for a ram expansion board?
>I have one for a PS/2 model 70, that I assume would work in your system,
>assuming you have the reference diskette for your machine.
>
>-Lawrence LeMay
>