Hi,
I have the following tram and I don't know what it is. It is
manufactured
by T2 Systems Ltd and is called a "Paradise 1/A" tram. It is a size 4
tram
that has a T80x transputer on it. It also contains what looks like an
IDC
50-pin connector (I didn;t count the pins, so I could be wrong). Does
anyone
know what it is?? Someone told me that it might be a data aquisition
board
(the IDC 50 looks like a connector for data aquisition according to this
guy)
but he can be wrong. If it is a DAQ card, what can I use it for??
Thanks
Ram
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While fumbling around among some old stuff in the basement, I found a
notebook which contains the OEM and service manuals for the following
SHUGART 8" Floppy Drives.
800/801, 850/851, 860/861, 600-series
Siemens 8" Floppy Drives
FDD 100-8 (2 versions, quite different, same part number) User (OEM)
Manuals only
Seagate Technology 5-1/4" Winchesters
Model 506, 406, 409, 412
Persci
Model 270, model 277
If this stuff is worth preserving, perhaps there's a way to save scanned
images for eventual conversion to PDF. Does anyone know about this?
Dick
Hi all,
today some quite unbelievable piece of luck happened to me:
While I was walking by the back entrance of a smaller University
here in Minneapolis purely accidentally, not thinking about computers at all,
I ran into
a pile of electronics. Short investigation revealed that it was a 1965 CDC
3000
series hard drive electronics cage (14" removable pack electronics),
perfectly undamaged and complete with all the ~150 cards (it so happened that
I worked on an identical cage about 15 years ago),
plus a heap of cards from assorted ~1971 Univac / Burroughs machines !
Within the next hour I found out that the building will be completely
remodeled,
and had to be emptied out. Quite obviously, someone forgot about 25 years ago
this set of things in the second-level basement; nothing else there, though.
General lesson: we should ask all schools regularly for their renovation
projects !!
John G. Zabolitzky
P.S. If anyone knows about / wants to get rid of CDC equipment of that
vintage, please let me know !
And yet another one... An Intel MCS-85 System Design Kit (8085
based single Board Computer) has wandered in sans docs...
Anyone have a manual on this critter?
-jim
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I recently got a couple of tape streamers: a Tandberg 3610 and
a 3300. Does anyone have any documentation/specs on these drives?
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> Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>> > FWIW the teeth on these belts are pitched at 0.080 inch - the standard
"mini
>> > pitch", unlike some equipment I have which uses belts with the teeth at
0.081
>> > inch...
>>
>> Can you really measure 1 thou difference on something like this? I would
>> have thought the 'wrong' belt would have fitted anyway, since the rubber
>> is somewhat elastic, and over the 20-or-so teeth engaged on a typical
>> sprocket, you've only got an error of 20 thou...
>
To answer Tony's question first, yes you can. Take one of each belt and turn
them inside out, i.e. teeth on the outside. (.080 inch from HP-85, .081 inch
>from can't remember the make of papertape punch that was sold in the UK by
Teleprinter Equipment.) Try and mesh the teeth of the two belts. It soon
becomes obvious which one has the larger pitch. These belts, being
string-reinforced, are not very stretchy and it would be difficult to get a .080
to run on .081 pulleys.
>> In any case, how hard is it to make new sprockets with the right pitch
>> (or even skim a bit off the existing ones to reduce the diameter
>> slightly)? If the 'right' belts are impossible to obtain, this would seem
>> to be a sensible solution.
It might be a solution. In my Tektronix 4662 the belt is intact, but the pulley
has died (20 teeth) I glued the old bits of (plastic) sprocket to the (metal)
hub but it was just inaccurate enough to drop a tooth here and there. Result,
the plotter couldn't get at the pens because they were offered up to the pen
carrier at the wrong place...
It might be quite easy to _buy_ new sprockets for .080 pitch. If not, I may ask
to borrow your lathe, dividing head, etc...
[Stan:]
> Actually, the proper belts for the HP-85 printer are still easy to come
> by. It took just two phone calls and I found a company called Stock
> Drive Products in New Hyde Park, NY (516-328-3300). They ship these
> belts from stock, and it doesn't appear that they have a minimum order
> quantity (I ordered three of each of the two belts). The two part
> numbers are A6B16-175012 and A6B16-078012, and they cost about two or
> three dollars each.
>
Lucky you. When I contacted Stock Drive Products, they referred me to their UK
agent, Davall. Davall do not, as far as I can determine, stock the HP85 belts.
I found, eventually, another supplier, who said they could get the .080 and .081
pitch belts. I told them what belts I wanted and they promised to fax me a
price, but I never heard any more. When I next get around to looking at the
punch, I'll have another try...
Philip.
Out on another info quest...
Just added a couple of Kennedy 9610, 9-track tape drives to the collection
(nice since they are multi-density 800 thru 6260) and of course have no
docs on them... (ain't it always the way?)
So in particular, I'd like to find some tech info on the (so called)
"Pertec Interface" so I can figure out what various systems in the
collection I might be able to convince these critters to work with. (and
get a bit more knowledge on tape drive interfacing in general)
Any assistance, pointers, spare docs, etc., most welcome!
Thanks;
-jim
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Hi. I'm from Portugal, and I just wanted to state my interest
on old computing material (non-PC) anyone wants to
sell/give-away. Since it's not trivial to send medium-sized packaged
overseas, I'm directing this mail to people living in europe (the
closer to portugal the better 8-).
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I believe I have located the appropriate materials to allow me to
sysgen my 11/44 RSTS/E system, in order to add support for RL02s,and
maybe RX02s and a few other things....
I have obviously never essayed this task before, though I *have*
sysgenned a number of smaller CP/M systems, and I think I understand
the basics of what/why.
If there is anyone on The List reading this who has done this
(sysgenning RSTS) before, and *especially* if there are big gaping
booby traps to fall into... I would be most interested in the
benefit of your experience.
The install.log is available from the previous sysgen, so I have
all the responses to the dialogs.
Like (duh!) ought I to back up what I have now? [how does one do
this to MS0: 1/2" tape?]
Ought I to partition the drive? Does the process overlay the
existing OS areas, or does it start over completely?
And please don't jam me about RTFM... even if I *had* them I'm sure
I'd have a bunch of other newbie questions....
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Cheers and thanks...
John
