test-drb September 1999

test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

160 participants
610 discussions

Vintage Computer Festival - Computer Museum Tour

by dastar＠ncal.verio.com

Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 October 2-3, 1999 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California The Vintage Computer Festival is once again proud to present a tour of The Computer Museum History Center in Mountain View, California. The Computer Museum boasts the worlds largest collection of historic computers, including some one of a kind machines. If you've never visited the History Center then you should take advantage of this opportunity. Two tours are scheduled for 3:30pm on both Saturday and Sunday of the Festival based on demand. If there is not enough demand for two separate tours then all reservations will be consolidated to one tour on Sunday, October 3. Each tour will last approximately one hour. The tour is open to most everyone but you must register in advance to reserve a seat on the bus which will be taking participants to the History Center from the Santa Clara Convention Center. Since the History Center is located on a United States military base (Moffet Federal Airfield) foreign nationals will have to RSVP as soon as possible so that their identification can be processed. United States citizens and those with green cards should not have any difficulty registering. Please note there is a charge of $5 for the bus ride. Complete information on making a reservation can be found on The Computer Museum's web site: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/vcf_10021999/tours.page Spread the Word! Remember to tell a friend about the Vintage Computer Festival. This is a great event for the whole family since kids are admitted free. There will be plenty of fascinating old computers on display that will help introduce computing to a budding young mind. Sell Your Computer There are still a few booths available in the Vintage Computer Flea Market but they are going fast! If you have a bunch of old computers sitting in your closet, or want to cash in on the computer collecting craze, there's no better place than the VCF Flea Market to sell your old computers. Booths are $125 for the entire weekend. Don't wait too long to decide, this price is only good until September 15. You can also sell your items on consignment with the VCF. It's hassle free! See http://www.vintage.org/vcf/vendor.htm for complete details on vendor booths and consignment sales. We'll see you at VCF 3.0! And remember, tell your friends!! To be removed from this automated notification service simply reply to this message with the word REMOVE as the first line of the message. Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 October 2-3, 1999 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, California http://www.vintage.org/vcf

25 years, 3 months

Find of the day: continued

by cem14＠cornell.edu

Well , I made a cable with the appropriate pin-out and turned the thing on... here's what came on the terminal: KA630-A.V1.3 Performing normal system tests 7..6..5..4..3.. Tests completed >>> boot 2.. ?54 RETRY 2.. (after a long time, I hit the halt button) ?02 EXT HLT PC = 00001AA8 >>> boot dua0 2.. ?42 NOSUCHFILE, DUA0 ?06 HLT INST PC = 00000EE6 Failure >>> Does that mean that the drive is busted, or just that there is no OS? The drive spins up and it sounds like it is seeking after issuing the boot command. Carlos.

25 years, 3 months

HP 2114 on ebay

by jlwest＠tseinc.com

It appears the HP 2114 on ebay sold from what I hear, it's no longer listed in any case. Just out of curiousity, did anyone here on the list get it??? Jay West

25 years, 3 months

Find of the day: continued

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<>>> boot < < 2.. < ?54 RETRY < < 2.. (after a long time, I hit the halt button) < ?02 EXT HLT < PC = 00001AA8 < <>>> boot dua0 < < 2.. < ?42 NOSUCHFILE, DUA0 < ?06 HLT INST < PC = 00000EE6 Either the drive is not dua0 or no OS on it. Allison

25 years, 3 months

Central Point Option floppy controller

by zmerch＠30below.com

Rumor has it that Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) may have mentioned these words: >On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote: >> This may be going counter to the tone of the discussion, but... >> If the goal is the least-hassle way to read and write Apple ][ disks, isn't >> the best solution >> AN APPLE ][ ? >Absolutely. > >> Besides, none of these other solutions are more than 10 years old! > >Apple Turnover, Matchpoint?, Quadlink, Diamond Trakstar 128, and Copy2 >Option board are all over 10 years old. Most of them were DISCONTINUED >more that 10 years ago. Not only that, but IIRC the original gist of the discussion wasn't "how to read/write Apple ][ disks..." but was: "how to read/write Apple ][ disks on an IBM PC." For that, the Apple ][ really isn't the best solution. Besides, Apple ][s are really tough to find up here... my buddy rescued a //gs, tho... [[ and later wondered how much he could get for it when he was hard-up for cash... Him: How much could I get for it? Me: Maybe $20 tops... *if* you find someone interested in it. Him: What're my chances of finding that someone? Me: About the same odds of you gaining 600 pounds overnight and winning the Mr. Olympia title. (he's had a lot of gastro-intestinal surgery over the last 2 years -- he's over 6 foot tall and weights ~130lbs.) Him: You've got to be kidding! It's got a hard drive...]] Yea, he's still my friend, but as he owes me a lot of $$$, I'll prolly give him the $20 for the machine (off his tab, of course... ;-) Anywho, IMHO, YMMV, ABAF and all that jazz... Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

25 years, 3 months

Central Point Option floppy controller

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Well, modern single-chip microcontrollers are very cheap, and they're >easy to use. Probably less hassle than attempting to (legally) clone the >Apple disk ][ controller. This may be going counter to the tone of the discussion, but... If the goal is the least-hassle way to read and write Apple ][ disks, isn't the best solution AN APPLE ][ ? Besides, none of these other solutions are more than 10 years old! Tim.

25 years, 3 months

Seek and ye shall find - the story of the latest PDP-9 discovery.

by kstumpf＠unusual.on.ca

Hope you consider this message an encouragement. It is directed to those are are new to the hobby or those of you who are disappointed because you still haven't found that special something even though you have spent much time trying to find it. Have we dried up sources of old computers? Hardly. Can you still hope to find that missing system/ software/manual/etc.? Indeed. The proof I offer is the PDP-9 that Merle Pierce, of the Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc., recently told us about. There weren't many of them to start with and it is 30 years old so what are the chances there would still be one working everyday in a building in Philadelphia. Pretty low, but still, against the odds it is now safe for another 130+ years in the museum's collection. A while back a the fellow from the company in Philadelphia that used the 9 contacted me. He came to me because his 9 wasn't working and upon doing a search of the web he discovered I had a reference to PDP-9s since I used to have one. He asked me for help in fixing his, but I was no help. I did mention how much I'd like to have another one and that was end of our correspondence. About 7 weeks ago he contacted me out of the blue and offered the 9 and other gear if I would come and pick it up. Tempting. The customs and other regulatory hassles made the trip impossible so I offered the gear to Merle and the rest is history. Seek and ye shall find. Really, lots and lots of wonderful old small and big computers are waiting to be discovered. Yours in good faith. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Kevin Stumpf * Unusual systems * www.unusual.on.ca +1.519.744.2900 * EST/EDT GMT - 5 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 .

25 years, 3 months

HP 2114 on ebay

by mbg＠world.std.com

>Ok... you've got me curious. (swinging wildly toward being O.T.) >What was there about this particular auction >that might have led to a complaint which would have resulted in it being >cancelled? (obviously, I did not see anything that threw up a flag) I really haven't been following the entire thread, so don't know what specific auction it was about -- I was just responding about the early end to an auction in general. So I can't tell what might have been wrong with it, if anything. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | 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 | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

25 years, 3 months

HELP: RF72 info and Control panel info

by cmcmanis＠freegate.com

Hello, First question for the list, does anyone have a technical manual on the RF72 (1GB DSSI drive)? The questions I have are: 1) What function does the blue wire in either pin 1 or pin 5 (depending on which is #1) of the power connector provide? 2) What function does the three position dip switch provide? (I've got a couple drives and some have switches set and others don't.) On a related topic, is there any documentation on the VAX "drive control" thingys? Various pieces of documentation I have offer tantalizing bits but I can't find the definitive definition. The Sigma docs talk about "active" and "passive" control panels, one of my BA213's has a 3 way DSSI panel with plugs for plastic "unit" plugs, one of my BA213's has a dual unit and the cab kit for SDI drives. My BA123 world box has four installed (not hooked up to anything) These latter ones appear to be "passive" (they have a 10 pin connector on them as well) --Chuck

25 years, 3 months

Looking for a pdp-15 handbook or other docs

by mcquiggi＠sfu.ca

Hi Group: I have a friend who is looking for pdp-15 docs. Anybody have any, or pointers to any on the web? Kevin ========================================================== Sgt. Kevin McQuiggin, Vancouver Police Department E-Comm Project (604) 215-5095; Cell: (604) 868-0544 Email: mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca

25 years, 3 months

← Newer
1
...
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
...
61
Older →

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

test-drb September 1999