Hi
I know a lot of people collect Digital stuff on here. But I have no idea
of how rare or un-rare this is:
This will most likely go into garbage soon - at next major bi-monthly
cleanup.
I got a DEC LA100 logic board in a lot of DEC Robin stuff. I have no use
for this LA100 board. No idea if it works. Looks complete and in good
shape, no apparent damage or missing parts. Tags on eproms had fallen
of. Perhaps EPROM data is now corrupt.
I also have a DEC RRD42-AA (SCSI) CdroM drive. Dont know if it works.
Not dead when power applied. Takes and ejects caddy/cd. It was with some
parts I got from someone with a VAX8350...perhaps that was used with it
(?) I had forgotten about this...pretty sure this is a 1X unit. Needs a
caddy.
Free or will accept anything you wanna throw out that might interest me
in return.
Shpping will be from Montreal Canada. Expect maybe $5US-$10US for
shipping costs.
I have been posting quite a bit of stuff for free/trade lately. I try to
post anything "interesting" and in great shape before I throw out.
Sometimes perhaps it's not too interesting. If it's getting to some
people - tell me.
Claude
The Canuk Computer Collector
(It's cold up here now...time to hide in basement and restore some
computers...)
Hi
Picked up 2 boxes full of VT180 stuff from a ex Digital employee.
Got a keyboard, Vt100 and robin board, small "backplane" board, 2
Shuggart 400L Digital branded drives and 4 RX50-AA drives. Also got a
VT100 keyboard and a VT100 power supply and several cables. Seems
everything is there except VT100 case/crt...could always build this in
some full/half tower AT PC case...still I will hunt for a VT100...this
is for collecting and not using really...
The owner told me the Robin board was modified to use 1M drives (?).
There are a couple ou wire jumpers on the Robin board. Also got some
disks, Robin schematics, a few CP/M manuals...
Questions:(I have not looked at the schematics yet......)
2 BNC connectors on the Robin board. Whats coming outta there? video? on
both? composite?
What drives should I be using to boot the Robin? The RX50-AAs or the
Shugarts 400L?
I see 2 DB25 ports on the Robin board and a larger (DBxx) on the VT100
board, anything special?
DIP switches on VT100...whats the deal there?
Anything else I should look out for?
Anybody know where VT180 info is available...I would like to see the
guts of one...
Thanks for the Help again
Claude
The Canuk Computer Collector
Does anyone out there have a copy of GSOS 4.02 in Mac Diskcopy format?
This is for us losers who don't have any fancy Rom upgrades of a decent
amount of Ram. As far as I can tell is isn't available on the internet.
Apple, of course, has the lastest system software available but that does'nt
do people like me much good. I'd really like to see GUI on my GS rather than
just Prodos. If you can help let me know. Thanks all.
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The Microcoupler is just the phone line interface, of a two part
modem. That same coupler was used on the S-100 board version modem
and the Apple II board modem. Seems to me the telephone company
required a separate DAA (data acquisition something_or_other?)
to interface to ''their'' phone lines. Remember all that crap
about we couldn't just hook things up - we might ''damage''
telephone company property? Turns out all we really damaged was
their profits!
Bill Hemmings
Tucson, AZ
Semiconductor storage solution
What you really need to do is place each semiconductor chip in a individual
case lined with black foam with a barcode on the outside of the case. You
then have a database that knows which barcode is which chip. You have a
huge bin filled with bar-coded cases and a robot arm that picks up each case
examines the barcode and then if it's not the correct one drops the case
into another huge bin. When the robot is through sorting the bin then you
have two pieces of information the, identify of all of your chips and an
inventory.
We really should think of elegant computer solutions for problems that deal
with computers instead of simple mechanical ones. This solution would
involve robots, computer vision, barcodes, scanning and databases. You
could create an entire industry to solve a simple problem, start a company,
have a IPO, make millions, laugh all the way to the bank.
That's what computers are for to keep track of other computers.
Mike :)
PS I'm just kidding!!
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
> > that ran the original DIA baggage system...
>
> Could it be that you have a machine even more
> despised than the Florida Vote-O-Matic booths
> with the special decis-E-rase buffer pads...
> ...Uuuh forget it.
>
> John A.
> Would like to get my hands on
> one of those and a steam roller.
No, noooo! Have you forgot the cardinal rule of
computing- gigo (garbage in, garbage out)?
These may be the last of the DataProducts card
readers! Don't put the blame on them, when it
was those garbage pre-punched cards that were
to blame!
For any of you who are in Florida, when, early next
year (I'd guess), they outlaw the Vote-A-Matic, I'd
like to get one of these dear old friends.
OTOH, if anyone has one already, especially one of the
models with the Pr1me colors, let me know, maybe we
can work out some kind of deal.
Regards,
-dq
I have seen several articles on why companies are choosing mainframes as
servers for PC networks.
1. Scalability If you need a PC based server for every 100 PC's and a
system administrator for each server and you have 2000 PC's then you need 20
system administrators, also 20 backups, also 20 sets of passwords,
permissions and rights lists. How do you keep the systems synchronized and
running. Logistics nightmare.
2. Predictability. You can buy a "mainframe" from IBM and know what costs,
licenses, and hardware will cost. Your software probably won't need an
infinite number of patches to run. You can buy known network and backup
solutions.
3. Stable OS. The operating system is a known quantity with predictable
costs to support. You can hire staff that have mainframe experience.
4. IBM actually is selling more "mainframe" hardware than ever before.
Enough with the big iron.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
I've seen a couple of voteomatic machines (suitcase variant) on eBay... :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Allain [mailto:John.Allain@donnelley.infousa.com]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 3:05 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Fault-tolerant computers (supposedly)
> that ran the original DIA baggage system...
Could it be that you have a machine even more
despised than the Florida Vote-O-Matic booths
with the special decis-E-rase buffer pads...
...Uuuh forget it.
John A.
Would like to get my hands on
one of those and a steam roller.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Iggy Drougge [mailto:optimus@canit.se]
>Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:35 PM
>To: Lawrence Walker
>Subject: Re: Atari questions from non-Atari person
>Lawrence Walker skrev:
>> Whoa, what magazines pray tell. I thought all of the ST zines had
>>folded their cards or were unfulfilled launches.
>The only serious ST print mag I know of which is still published is ST
>Computer/Atari inside of Germany. However, it went subscription-only last
>year, so I can't buy the occasional issue at Interpress anymore. =(
Antic, a mag devoted to Atari 8-bitters, went out in '91 (I think), but
check out the Digital Antic Project page at http://www.atarimagazines.com/.
They've scanned and archived articles from most of magazine's run and offer
a complete index. A nice resource. If someone's done something similar for
the early ST, I'd like to know about it.
Mark
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Somewhere I have the RL01 printset, and also the RLV11 (or is it 12?)
printset... I also have 3 M8061's, one RL11, and at least one of the other
qbus interfaces, should anyone need one.
Will J
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