Ok, not very classic yet (not for another couple of years), but their
"coolness factor" is pretty high, so...
For a total of about $50, I just picked up three NCR System 3400 series
MCA machines. They're pretty impressive, both in features and in weight,
especially when one considers that not many manufacturers outside of IBM
ever did MicroChannel buses.
One has a pair of Seagate 'Elite' drives (2.9 gig SCSI) along with two
Maxtor 8760S's, and another has dual 486 CPU's, an Exabyte 8200, and a QIC
tape drive. A little digging has turned up that they'll run NT, Solaris,
and a few others. NCR still had all the support disks and files on their
web site, so that's taken care of.
Onward!
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Hi Gang:
I have a Unibus bootstrap/terminator board with 4 ROMs on it. According to
the field guide:
M9301-YF U M9301 with boot for PC11, RP02-6, RS03-4,
RK05-6,
RX01, TU10, TU16, TU56, TS03, TTY, ASCII
console, diagnostics
There's a 10 position DIP switch on the board.
Anyone know how to set the DIP switches to select the various bootstraps?
What diagnostics are in the ROMs? This could be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
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mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca
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I do have the maintenance manual describing all this, and a software listing.
I will send you that info tonight, when I am where the manual is.
John G. Zabolitzky
Hi Gang:
I have a Unibus bootstrap/terminator board with 4 ROMs on it. According to
the field guide:
M9301-YF U M9301 with boot for PC11, RP02-6, RS03-4,
RK05-6,
RX01, TU10, TU16, TU56, TS03, TTY, ASCII
console, diagnostics
There's a 10 position DIP switch on the board.
Anyone know how to set the DIP switches to select the various bootstraps?
What diagnostics are in the ROMs? This could be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
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mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca
Hi, everyone. :-)
I'm looking around for businesses that sell new or used DEC
equipment...and a little bit of help as well, since I don't yet know
PDPs as well as I'd like to. ;-)
I'm in the process of getting a PDP-11/23+ which has no hard disks
or tape drive. The computer itself comes with a few cards, but most of
them I'm not sure what I can do with.
The cards that come with the system are:
M8190 (11/73 processor)
Emulex M8087 (No one has been able to find out what this board
is...wrong numbers?)
Berg M8020 (Single-line serial EIA sync interface)
With that in mind, what do I need to get the system to the point where
it will boot? I know what the processor card will do, but what about
the others?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
> Anyway do the MFM controllers in PROs have the same hard-coded drive model
>restrictions as their Qbus big brothers, like the RQDXn family?
On a PRO, the MFM hard drive is ID'd by the number of heads and
number of cylinders. If you look at, for example, DW.MAC on a RT-11
distribution kit, you'll find the table quite easily. You can add
your own devices to the table - just keep in mind that it has to
be in ascending order by heads, and then ascending order by
cylinders.
OK, the above is a bit of an oversimplification - if the drive in
question happens to be a RD50, the drive might be damaged by the
seek test that counts the number of cylinders. So RD50's
are identified by a bit in the status/init register, and not
by the seek test.
The PRO's MFM controller only allows 3 bits for the head ID and 10
bits for the cylinder ID, so you can only use drives up to 8
heads and 1024 cylinders (aka the RD53).
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Hi folks,
I'm helping an ex-work colleague with an HP Vectra. It's the very first
model of the Vectra (from ca. 1986) and is commonly called the "Classic
Vectra". It's a 286 running at 6 MHz, 1 meg RAM . . . you know, the
typical AT clone.
The setup floppy disk is now missing and we need to find the setup program
for the machine. About 2 years ago or so I had downloaded the Classic
Vectra setup program from HP's website. I searched HP's site now and cannot
find any setup files for these old machines anymore.
Anybody know if the setup files are still online at HP and if so where are
they? If nothing is on HP's site anymore does anybody have a copy of the
setup file for the _Classic_ Vectra they could email to me?
Thanks for all your help with this!
Regards, Chris
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Back in the early '80's I had this 14" 20MB Century Data Marksman drive
which I soon gave away. I recently found the interface manual for it, i.e.
a document which is apparently intended for one to interface the built-on
controller/formatter to a Z-80. It includes some code examples, etc.
Would this be of use to anyone?
Dick
>Then wide open space. :-) [meta question, presumably DEC had fill plates
>for the empty slots?]
If you mean the cover plates for the BA213, and not slot fillers, yes...
>When I boot the cpu does all of its diagnostics but it doesn't "see" the
>KFQSA. One of the drives blinks fault the other rattles around a bit and
>then blinks ready.
In my experience, the drives are really flakey... I've got a couple
which have been working one week, then after a power-down, they went
fault, never to work again...
> When I type SHOW DEV to the uvax prompt it show the ethernet and
> tape but NOT the KFQSA. Is that normal if the disks are not
> inited?
It can happen until such time as the KFQSA haas been set to respond to
addresses... there is a switch setting on the board which has to be set
a certain away to be able to program it with at least one address...
when it responds to one address, then the SET HOST command can be used.
> When I type Megan's command "SET HOST/MAINT/QSSP/SERVER 0"
> to access the internal controller on the KFQSA I get
> >>>SET HOST/MAINT/UQSSP/SERVER 0
> ?28 UNK SW
That's because it is /UQSSP, not /QSSP
but it may not work if the board hasn't been seup yet.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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