One of these beasts is available for the price of shipping (from zip 97339)
if someone responds to be by Thursday (6/24/1999). Please save this guy
>from the scrap heap. A short (two or three foot) cable is included, though
the power cable is missing. (Connectors appear to be 37 pin D-sub (DC37?)
at both ends.
Guestimate weight is about 20 pounds. Check your preferred method of
shipping.
No media.
Only one, so first-come, first-served.
Gary
I sold mine to a local guy last week for $300. The last one on eBay about
three weeks back went for $565.
good luck!
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom howe <howet(a)ohsu.edu>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 3:23 AM
Subject: MITS ALTAIR 8-inch Floppy Auction
Hello:
I put an original 8-inch floppy drive for the Altair on Ebay. Go to this URL
to see a picture of the unit and to place a bid:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120678854
--Tom
>Wait a minute.... You can order out of print manuals from Compaq? How
>much, and who do you contact? This sounds even more interesting than the
>pair I've got!
You call 1-800-DIGITAL, give them the part number (often EK-xxxxx-UG
or -MM or whatever), and they'll tell you about availability. Not
everything is available, but a fair amount of stuff from the 60's
and 70's is available as kind-of nicely Xeroxed copies of the originals.
Some of the copies are from microfiche and aren't so nice. It's hard
to tell beforehand how nice the copy you end up getting will look!
If you don't know the part number, a very handy tool is the DAS
(Digital Assisted Services) searchable catalog, at
http://www.digital.com/info/DAS-Catalog/dassearch.htm
For example, I typed in "RX0" and it came back with these part numbers
and prices:
H771-A Pow Supply RX01 (RX11) 60 Hz $276.00
M7726-00 RX01 Controller $405.00
M7727-00 RX01 R/W Control $152.00
M7846-00 RX01 Unibus $426.00
M8029-00 RXV21, Q-bus RX02 Interface $381.00
M8256-00 RX211 Unibus RX02 Interface $518.00
EK-ORX01-MM RX01/08/11 Maintenance Manual $ 84.00
EK-ORX01-OP RX8/RX11 RX01 Floppy Disk Sys $ 21.00
EK-ORX02-UG RX02 Floppy Disk System Users $ 21.00
EK-RX012-PS RX01/RX02 Pocket Serivce Guide $ 42.00
Now clearly not all the RX01/02 parts that ever existed are in
the above list, but it's a start. And it also shows you how DEC
manual part numbers are often constructed; "-MM" is Maintenance
Manual, "-UG" is User's Guide, "-PS" is the Pocket Service Guide,
etc.
--
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Does anyone have a copy of the "IBM PC Network Technical Reference Manual"
(c. 1984) that they could part with / copy/scan a few pages out of for me?
I'm trying to write an RPL loader daemon and can't seem to figure out a
few things about the protocol. (I'm trying to boot an IBM 8227, which is
not-so-classic as the above book is.)
Also, does anyone know of something (besides LANtastic, which I can't get
to work), that will speak such an old thing as IBM "FIND/FOUND" RPL?
Thanks
af
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Adam Fritzler
{ mid(a)auk.cx, afritz(a)iname.com}
http://www.auk.cx/~mid/
"Behold the power of cheese." -- National Dairy Council
>I just got a box of doc's today in the mail, and I'm totally fascinated by
>two of them. They're nicely done copies!?!? They have semi-heavy cream
>coloured covers with the actual cover xeroxed onto them, and the pages are
>xeroxes, but the right size. They're bound with the spiral plastic things.
>Does anyone know what the story is with these? Are these copies that DEC
>made, or did a 3rd party go to this much trouble?
If you order out-of-print manuals from DEC (err, Compaq) today, they
run Xeroxes off from originals - there's a special name for the facility
they use to do this, but I can't remember it at the moment. The
resulting document sounds very much like what you're describing.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
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>I can grab a big Compro (model:?) computer that the junk guys says is a
>S100 computer. it includes two 8" drives.
>
>Anyone know anything about this box?
I'm willing to bet they mean Compupro. Yes, they made a multitude of S-100
systems. One of the most common was their 8085/8088 combo system, as
displayed with 8" drives in the Smithsonian.
Compupro is a well-respected S-100/IEEE-696 manufacturer
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
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Sam,
The 100xx errors returned by WinSock are generally the Berkeley errno
values with 10000 added to them. This one has no Berkeley equivalent. The
information I have on it is:
The WinSock implementation cannot function at this time because the
underlaying system it uses to provide network services is currently
unavailable.
o Check that WINSOCK.DLL is in the current path.
o Check that WINSOCK.DLL is from the same vendor as the underlaying
protocol stack.
o Check that all WinSock components are installed and configured.
Not much I know but maybe it will be of some help.
Regards,
Bob
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On Tuesday, June 22, 1999 1:15 AM, Sellam Ismail
[SMTP:dastar@ncal.verio.com] wrote:
>
> I would normally not post such a lame question to this list but I need
> help desparately and don't have time to go wading through a haystack for
a
> needle. Its bad enough I have to keep re-visiting this problem of
windows
> deciding to kill itself every few months for the joy of it.
>
> My IP stack is hosed on my Win95 machine. When I try to ping any host I
> get "Transmit failed, error code 10091". If I try to run WINIPCFG I get
> "Fatal error: cannot read IP configuration".
>
> Since MS is fucked and doesn't have any sort of technical documentation
> anywhere useful that would list these errors I must now try to go
> searching for what this bullshit means. Unless you already have the
> answer?
>
> This started to happen after I had to re-install windows over the
existing
> install, because it all of a sudden started coming up with a "Windows
> exception" during boot and would not boot any further.
>
> TIA.
>
> Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
>
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> Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out.
>
> Coming this October 2-3: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0!
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 05/25/99]
>
Just wanted to let everyone know in case they ever have to deal with this
obnoxious bug that I found the solution on MS's support website. I did a
search on the error code and got back two articles, the first of which
detailed a procedure for fixing the problem, which had something to do
with WinSock 2.0. I guess the lesson to be learned here is that, to their
credit, what MS lacks in obvious documentation they make up for on their
website at least.
Sorry for the off-topic crap.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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I'm virtually apoplectic about this garbage that some of you may watched
tonight on TV (I certainly did NOT watch it).
If the facts and how they are perceived in the public's mind weren't
already distorted enough, this show totally trivializes the recent history
of computing. They would not do this with the Holocaust or Vietnam, so
how dare they create such a blatantly falsified story?
It will take years to undo the misconceptions and outright falsehoods this
show has promoted.
I'm truly outraged.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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