Count me in for the RT CDrom...
This'll force me to get my non-SCSI RRD40 interface and disk setup
and working...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com |
| Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com |
| Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' |
| 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg |
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>< Hmm. I think I'll ask them about the prices. By the "yet", are you
><suggesting that someone is working on it? :-)
>
>Maybe Megan but, not I.
Sorry, I don't know of anyone looking into a hobbyist license from
Mentec other than the one they have already allowed, for use on
the supnik (or Viking or Charon) emulator(s). There is no hobbyist
license that I know of from Mentec which covers real hardware.
I wish there was...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com |
| Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com |
| Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' |
| 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg |
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Greetings folks,
Well, I think I've found a good home for my Equity I and II+... while
digging around various parts in my computer stuff I ran across a Seagate 251
40 mg hd. It's working, least it was when I removed it several years ago.
Anyone interested? I gather from the various threads here the 251-1 is
preferable... I don't mine is that model, however.
Gave away (plus shipping) my other stuff, but am getting kinda stingy now..
<G>. Is this hd of worth beyond shipping costs to anyone?
Cheers,
... Paul
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Paul Whiting
Full Circle Communications
Billings, MT
In a message dated 7/28/99 11:35:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mikeford(a)netwiz.net writes:
> >picked up another IBM PC RT and enough parts to get it working as well as
> 180
> >8 inch floppies, some still in their original packaging! what was even
> better
> >was i bought two VGA monitors, 3 mac IIsi and 2 mac LC3 all with nice RGB
> >monitors, all complete and working with 12-24 meg and 170-340 hard drives
> all
> >for $7. no keyboards or mouses, but hey, whaddya expect for $7?
>
> How did you end up with a price of $7 for a truck load of working computers
> (especially the monitors)?
>
well i was delivering computer parts around town and i was near one of the
regular thrift stores i goto. outside they sometimes sell off stuff cheap.
they had a bin of macs so i bought the entire thing. the lady said they
camein that morning and they had JUST put em out for sale... i was the first
to spot them. this was the middle of the day too.
supr 'serendipity' dave
picked up another IBM PC RT and enough parts to get it working as well as 180
8 inch floppies, some still in their original packaging! what was even better
was i bought two VGA monitors, 3 mac IIsi and 2 mac LC3 all with nice RGB
monitors, all complete and working with 12-24 meg and 170-340 hard drives all
for $7. no keyboards or mouses, but hey, whaddya expect for $7?
btw: if anyone has any leads on an IBM 6157 tape drive and/or controller, LMK
ASAP FWIW.
david
Well, I got the console cable, monitor, and monitor cable tonite. I didn't
get the keyboard (thankfully) as he'd not found one.
Dug up a couple LK201's in storage, came home found a powercable (actually
unplugged a Sparc 2 to get the power), and turned it on. Booted nice and
smooth. Looks to be running some munged version of POS 3.2 with the VAX
Console software on top of it.
Now I've got a couple software related questions.
First is there a way to get out of the VAX Console software into something
resembleing POS? It doesn't look like it.
Second. How do I get it to boot off of a floppy? Opps, never mind. I
just booted off of my RT-11 floppy. The problem seems to be with the copy
I made a year or so ago to use, now I'm using the original and it boots
fine. COOL! Hmm, this might explain why I couldn't get the /73 to boot
off of that floppy.
OK, that brings up a third question. Can a Quantum 540 hard drive turned
into a RD52 on a VAXstation 2000 be used in a DEC Pro380? Or do you need
to do some kind of funky formating on the Pro itself. I'm thinking of
setting up a Hard Drive with POS, and one with RT-11 when I can find the
time.
Zane
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast |
| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
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| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
I'm sure they mean the 8201A. It's the NEC version of the TRS-80 Model 100.
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: David Williams [mailto:dlw@trailingedge.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 1:08 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: NEC 8012A?
Someone is asking me about an NEC 8012A. Anyone know
anything about this system?
-----
David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
Upon the date 02:38 PM 7/28/99 -0700, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) said something
like:
>On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Christian Fandt wrote:
>> Has anybody installed a CDROM and sound card set into their Desk Station IV
>> and gotten it running okay under W95?
>> Has anyone even installed W95 onto their T4400C? Results?
>
>This may not be any help.
>A friend has a T4800??. I found 3 Docking Station IVs. The manual for
>the DSIV talks about floppy drive, NO mention of CD-ROM. I installed an
>Adaptec SCSI controller and a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM into one. It worked.
>Month or so later, it stopped working, even to the extent of not providing
>power to the computer. I switched the SCSI card and drive to another
>DSIV. Then it stopped working. Removing the drive and card did not
>restore the DSIV. When I can get to it again, I'll have to see whether
>I've maybe destroyed the power supplies? I have one more DSIV left. I'll
>at least wait until I diagnose the damaged ones before messing with the
>sole survivor.
The power supply suspicion you have may be on the right track. Check your
manual for the permitted loads that the DSIV is able to provide. There is a
chart on a right hand page of that manual -I can't recall exactly where but
you'll find it I'm sure. Then try to find the SCSI card and the drive
current requirements. If the current drawn by the card and drive combined
was just a bit over the max the PSU could provide then this could explain
the PSU's in both DSIV's slowly kicking the bucket. The SCSI parts may have
overloaded the DSIV PSU. I can't check the book myself as my uncle took the
system back home with him to Ohio. Nevertheless, I promised I would try to
investigate the W95/CDROM-recognition problem with you folks.
Must be DSIV's are a bit common. My uncle found his at one of the Dayton,
Ohio area computer shows a little over a year ago. New in the box and cost $25.
Regards, Chris
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--- Brad Ackerman <bsa3(a)cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 02:51:22PM -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > On that front, I've got a couple of older 8-bit IEEE cards that I would
> > love to find out information on...
> >
> > They're National Instruments cards (over 10 years old!), p/n 180212-01,
> I've got about 5k pages of NI docs, but nothing on that part. The
> closest I could find is the GPIB-PCII(A), part numbers 180100-02 and
> 180210-0[12]. Your part seems to be a later revision of the PCIIA.
18212-01 is the number in copper on the back. 180210-0 is the number in
silk-screen ink on the front. Bingo!
> I've scanned in the install docs in TIFF compressed format and put
> them at <http://tam.cornell.edu/~bsa3/gpib-docs.tar.gz>.
Thanks. Got 'em.
> Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any of the driver disks other than
> for OS/2. If I find the DOS version, I'll let you know. The card
> should be supported by the Linux GPIB subsystem without any problems.
I don't need OS/2 or DOS. Linux is *just* fine. Thanks for the assist.
-ethan
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