test-drb October 2000

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by ainsinga＠infomation.com

I have 2 old (maybe they fit your definition of classic, maybe not) b&w or grayscale scanners -- Agfa Focus ('Focus S 800 GS') and Agfa Focus II -- which I'd like to get rid of very soon and are available for the first, best offer. (0 is a perfectly good offer from a non-profit group.) They could be picked up in Andover, MA or Nashua, NH. I don't really want to pack and ship them; they're heavy and I'm not sure I still have the carriage locking instructions (but I'll look). They worked when I last used them but I haven't powered them up in a half-dozen or so years, since some release of OmniPage Pro dropped support for them. They have Centronics 50-pin SCSI connectors. I used to have a 68k MacOS driver for them, which Agfa would give away, but their DOS/Windows? drivers were integrated into some software that they sold (and I never got). Reply directly via e-mail to ainsinga(a)infomation.com.

23 years, 9 months

IBM System/360 model 30 doc.

by Henk.J.Stegeman＠is.shell.com

Hi, I was lucky to buy a very nice operator panel of an old IBM S/360 model 30. I am now trying to rebuild this IBM S/360 model 30 (using this panel as a base) with modern TTL, EEPROM's IC's etc. With the current information I have, I was able to reconstruct about 50-60% of it's logic diagrams. I am still searching for ANY customer engineering documentation of this old IBM system, specially the small CE reference booklet for the model 30 and the Functional Maintenance Manual. Anyone who can help me ??? I already have a copy of the 'Theory of Operations' and micro-code flowcharts manual. Regards, Henk Stegeman, IBM collector Phone: ++31-70-303 4513

23 years, 9 months

You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

by agraham＠ccat.co.uk

It was certainly featured a lot in the orange/grey walls as foo.bar for filenames.....didn't they also use brer.bar as well? > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Cherry [mailto:ncherry@home.net] > Sent: 04 October 2000 20:55 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: You might be a VMS Bigot if..... > > > Bill Pechter wrote: > > > > Damn... > > > > I was with you right through the fubar line. > > Spent too many hours troubleshooting flaky Unibus problems on > > 11/780's with semi-fried Unibus or UBA's. > > > > Hearing anyone decode the FUBAR makes me twitch. > > Uhmm isn't the computer version Foo bar as in Foo bar blatz zam zow > (I'm not sure about the last ones anymore). I once named a 3B2 310 > Foobar and thought nothing of it. Management came to me and > requested an > explaination until they saw the spelling (I was on a support hotline, > fubar is a fact of life there). > > -- > Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry > ncherry(a)home.net > http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only) > http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics) > http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ > (SourceForge) >

23 years, 9 months

Rewiring VAX 6000 for single-phase AC?

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Anybody have instructions/details on how to re-wire a VAX 6000's three-phase 115V AC power supply for 220V single phase? The only thing I've got so far with any information is this: http://www.decvax.org/vax6000/power.txt However, I cant find any way to get ahold of the author of the text, who mentions: "I you get a 6000 (or similar) machine let me know. I have worked out a very elegant way to do the above mod which entails no soldering , no disconnecting of joints etc , and can be put back to factory standard in about 30 secs." What I need, is that information - but the email is at least 4 years old and the addresses no longer current. I've got a VAX 6000-410 here that I'd love to at least fire up and run some diags on, and I cant do that till it will run on 220V power.... Bill -- Bill Bradford * KD5LQR mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

23 years, 9 months

VCF 4.0 is in the books ...

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

Well, the dust has settled and I'm trying to re-store all the stuff I dragged out for VCF 4.0... I had a great time, placed a couple of VAXes into very nice homes (and Zane will be happy they both had VMS installed on them) and generally enjoyed meeting everyone again and talking old hardware. This year the exhibit/market space was shared by the California Extreme pinball show/thing and it was, unfortunately, a bit loud. However it was most likely the largest number of 8 and 16 bit micros operating in a single space in all of California! There was a great set of talks this year, I'm hoping to get tapes of the ones I missed. Overall, it was fun but exhausting. Public thanks go to Sellam for "producing" this event, it is really great. --Chuck

23 years, 9 months

console multiplexor

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> >Clearly the simplest solution is a 6PnT rotary switch, some cables wired up >with MMJ plugs crimped on their ends. I'm planning to build one of these as >I have all the parts and that will get the console going on the micro-cluster. That would work if you assert RxD to spacing on disconnect. Me, I cheat. I don't bother connecting a tube (unless required like during initial install) and when needed I use the VT1200 to connect via the net once that is up. >However, if you're willing to be really clever then you can do much better >than this. I've got a nice color terminal (the Link MC70 although its color >is a bit unstable these days :-() or I could use a DEC VT340 (probably the >actual version for display) and you could, with a bit of smarts and some >buffering take output from the RS-423 lines, and prior to forwarding them >on to the terminal you could inject ANSI color codes on/off. This would >make the output from each console a different color. (keeping them straight >is of course the challenge) If you are really clever you don't allow one >console to interrupt another mid-line either. I've got an old single board >Z80 system that could probably do this, or I could wimp out and use a CPLD >feeding a Scenix chip. Could be done with Vt125 or better yet.... Like I used to do with a Vt320, the system write a status line (25th) in response to a simple request "@who" which runs a DCL script. the request was stored as the "respones line" on the terminal or as a simple "w" [set W*ho="@who.com". Also other defined commands terminate with a call to who. The status line also has current directory and account. the switch box was a LQPX2-SW and MMJ to DB/P25 cabling. Allison

23 years, 9 months

WTB/T: VLC drive mounting bracket?

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

I'm looking for two VAX 4000/VLC drive mounting brackets. I can trade a TZ50 tape drive or the bridge board from a TF86. (Or async multiplexor boards, either s-box or regular) --Chuck

23 years, 9 months

Counterworks workstations

by dburrows＠netpath.net

Has anyone heard of them. I have been sent a bid sheet that has 2 pallets worth of them and hard drives. Are they rebadged something's? Is anyone interested in them? I think they meet the 10 year rule by all the PDP etc. related stuff that is also on the sheet. Dan

23 years, 9 months

Console Servers (was: cluster stuff [was Re: Changing lo)

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote: > I've got several DECserver 200/MC boxes available for sale or trade. No > idea if they do reverse LAT (or, for that matter, normal forward LAT). Yes, both. Don't ask me how to set it up, though; it was over 10 years ago and on the other side of the continent, but I had one providing print service using reverse LAT and I convinced another one to provide access to an HP3000/70 via a serial connection to an ATP port on the 3000. You do need a MOP server from which the DECserver can download its software. -Frank McConnell

23 years, 9 months

WANTED: (Xerox) ViewPoint Scavenger software

by yoda＠isr.ist.utl.pt

I'd like to bring a Xerox DayBreak (6085) workstation back to life, but I'm unable to do it because it requires a so called VP Scavenging software. Can anyone send me an electronic version of the disk/tape image containing such software? If anyone has at least Xerox 6085 software, in any form, PLEASE contact me: maybe we could arrange a way to convert it to an electronic format. Furthermore, if anyone has any bootable software for such a beast, please contact me. Cheers, -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585

23 years, 9 months

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test-drb October 2000