Have a box of assorted manuals for sale: (binder)Sequoia PICK/UNIX
Admininstrator manual, covers TOPIX, PICK, system maintenance; Systematics
General Corp., Natl. Sci. Labs Div., Reference Manual: Model T-5101
Interactive Display Terminal (has some schematics also); Centronics Model 306
Printer Tech Manual; Centronics Series 300 Printer Operator Manual; Centronics
RS-232 Tech Manual; and finally, three binders of Honeywell mainframe info
relating to GCOS 8 (list of system commands for console operator, printer
manuals, etc.
Selling whole shebang as one lot. Price: Seven dollars, plus shipping from
Laurel, Maryland. USA only please.
Dan S.
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...a few days ago I scribbled...
> ...And hopefully (if Murphy does not interfere) by the end of the weekend
yet another > item will be struck from the list! Stay Tuned!!
Well, it happened! Ducking 'Murphy' vibes all the way, (deal was a bit
shaky right up until the end) but another one falls from the list!
An early Altair 680 with full front panel joined the collection tonight.
No docs or software (see a request coming on?), but it is pretty good shape
and appears to be reasonably coherent. I'll be able to tell a bit more
once I find some basic specs on it and can figure out how the serial port
is configured.
It has been a good week! (quality over quantity) Pictures on the web site!
-jim
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Hi Don and other ListErs,
I have been working on a similiar problem... I have the original DEC
distributions for a few things (including Ultrix 3.1, looking for
UWS 3.0), and I want to make archival copies of them...
I discovered the TK-50Z (both FA and GA) will work with FreeBSD and
an old Adaptec SCSI controller. This allows me to read (and copy) the
TK50 onto my PCs hard disk, but I haven't quite got the format right
to write a new tape (still playing with file marks)...
NOTE: I tried a 2940 and a 1535 and neither of them worked. I was
successful with a AHA-1542B scsi adapter.
I also have a SCSI adapter for my uVAX II, and have copied tapes
>from TK50 to 4mm DAT, but it seems quite a waste to put 95MB on a
4GB tape.
Finally, if none of these options appeal to you (and you don't
have other success), I have a uVAX II with a TK70, TK50, SCSI
adapter for the 4mm DAT, and a 9-track tape drive, and can copy
them for you (contact me off list for this).
Laters,
clint
PS My 11/750 is up and running!!! The dead power supply turned out
to be two pins shorted on the backplane... Sometimes my debugging
skills leave something to be desired...
PPS What is a Fujitsu Eagle worth used? I am going to upgrade the
11/750 to a SCSI controller and 3.5" drive as soon as I get two
nickles to rub together :)
>
>I have been tinkering around with my VaxStation 2000 and a couple of
>TK-50Zs that I have. One is an FA and the other a GA so I am able to set
>them at differing SCSI node values.
>
>My thought was that I could use both on the VaxStation and use them to
>duplicate some tapes that are save_set(s). Apparently it cannot be done
>on the VS. Either unit is recognized when connected alone, but when both
>are connected the FA is always recognized as MUA0 and the GA is ignored.
>Does anyone have an explanation for this, or am I just doing it wrong?
>
>Assuming failure on the two tape approach, how might I make the duplicate
>tape(s) without wiping out the contents of my hard disk? It is at the
>moment fairly lightly loaded and may hold the save_set. The HD is an RD54
>by the way and I am running VMS 5.5.
>
>Thanks!
> - don
In case you didn't read this column in the SJ Mercury...
the columnist lists many sites dedicated to the history
of early software developers and their products -
Visicalc for instance.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080399.htm
Yours in good faith.
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Collector - Commercial Mainframes & Minicomputers from
the 50s, 60s, & 70s and control panels and consoles.
Author & Publisher - A Guide to Collecting Computers &
Computer Collectibles * ISBN 0-9684244-0-6
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Hi,
I am looking for all the various INMOS tram part numbers and their
purpose. I am not interested in the compute trams, just the special
purpose ones. Here is what I have so far:
IMSB420 - VecTRAM (transputer + zoran array processor)
IMSB421 - GPIB Tram
IMSB422 - SCSI Tram
IMSB431 - Ethernet Tram
What are the others (ROM, DACs, Graphics, etc)?
Thanks
Ram
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G'day,
<URL:http://mail-index.nice.ru/classiccmp/wgindex.html>
Built with Glimpse and WebGlimpse: <URL:http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/>.
There may remain some rough edges (i.e. bugs :-) -- report them, please.
I'm aiming to make INFO-VAX archive search engine available on the same
site (well, it's already there, but only half of year 1988 data is
indexed).
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
I got a bit of spare time to go through some of the documentation I received
with my recent HP 2100 systems. I have found an incredible item in there!
The notebook is about 3 inches thick. It is a training manual along with
hundreds of pages of handwritten notes on the Internals of HP Timeshare
BASIC. Not only does it describe all the byte by byte formats of OS tapes,
SLEEP and HIB tapes, OS and user disc layouts on a sector by sector basis,
but it also has diagrams of every data structure in RAM and on disc related
to the internal operation of the OS. In addition, it even has over a hundred
pages of detailed flowcharts on how every system module operates. These are
not general flowcharts, but flowcharts written from a datastructure
standpoint. These flowcharts give blow by blow descriptions of exactly what
fields in every data structure are modified when that module runs and why.
Not just the system modules, but every BASIC statement, user command,
operator command, etc all the way down to the scheduler, mux driver, etc.
With this information, one could very easily (albeit time consuming) write
TSB from scratch. I'll have to scan all this and put it online for
interested parties!
Jay West
Still trying to find a DOS driver to use my newly acquired Sydos Puma 88
Drive
I found this information of Syquest's web site but was not able to find
the drivers they mentioned.
Does anyone have one of these units or know where I can find the drivers
and manuals ?
Thanks.. Phil
http://www.syquest.com/support/tb8010.html
TB8010 - SyDOS PUMA Subsystems
The SyDOS PUMA 44 and 88 MB units were produced for
the PC
marketplace by the SyDOS division of SyQuest. SyDOS
was a
division of SyQuest located in Florida. Its
function was to provide
products for the DOS marketplace. Some of its
parallel port products
used the SyQuest SQ555 and SQ5110 SCSI drives in a
subsystem
with a parallel to SCSI adapter card, power supply,
etc. This hardware
interface card with the SyQuest drivers installed
the SQ drives into the
DOS 3.0 through 6.22 operating systems.
The manufacturer of the hardware PP to SCSI
interface is no longer in
business. With the release of Win'95 requiring some
additional
hardware interface support, the PUMA units can not
be updated to be
Win'95 compliant. This additional hardware
requirement makes the
update to Win'95 real mode drivers unavailable. On
some systems the
PAR driver can install the PUMA unit in the DOS
Compatibility mode.
This greatly depends on the hardware in your PC
system.
The PUMA unit was developed before the release of
Win'95 and the
ECP/EPP hardware. Some older 486 class PCs should
be able to
install the PUMA units in the DOS Compatibility
mode. The newer the
PC, the less likely the installation will be
successful. SyQuest drivers,
utilities, and readme files are in our download
section or
ftp.syquest.com.
The PUMA1.ZIP and PUMA2.ZIP files are the two files
containing the
driver and utilities for these units. You must use
PKUNZIP to extract
the driver and utilities.
