test-drb February 2000

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by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Found on Usenet. Anyone in or near the Czech republic want to do a rescue? (Hey, one never knows!) Reply to sender directly if interested. -=-=- <snip> -=-=- From: "lm" <l.m(a)c.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: MicroVAX II for sale Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:34:54 +0100 Organization: Compaq Computer Corp. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <893c1q$3je$1(a)mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 16.193.136.44 X-Trace: mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com 951399290 3694 16.193.136.44 (24 Feb 2000 13:34:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet(a)mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2000 13:34:50 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Path: news.jps.net!news-west.eli.net!sdd.hp.com!enews.sgi.com!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsgate.tandem.com!mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com!not-for-mail Xref: news.jps.net comp.os.vms:8076 Dear Sir, I recieved data from one small company in our region in Czech Rep., which is selling their computers. This computers are eight years old and it`s MicroVAX II with spare part. They are looking for a customer, that wants buy this MicroVAX II or spare parts. Below you can find part numbers of this spare parts : 2 x TU81E-DB 3000 MASS-STORAGE 4 x RA82-ED 3261 RA82 622MB 14 inch SDI-DISKS 1 x KDA50-QA 3452 KDA50 MICROVAX2/PDP11 TO RA-DISKS Q-BUS CONTR. 1 x TK70-AA 3360 TF/K70 296MB, 90KB/S (NON)/DSSI DLT TAPE-DRIVE - 5.25" CARTRIDGE TAPE DRIVE WITH TK5 1 x TQK70-AA 3360 TF/K70 296MB, 90KB/S (NON)/DSSI DLT TAPE-DRIVE - Q22 TMSCP CNTLR FOR TK70-AA,30" CAB 1 x DHQ11-M 5456 DHQ11/ 8 LINE ASYNC COMM CTLR 1 x KA630-AA 2450 MicroVAX II - QUAD Q22 MICROVAX CPU MODULE: CPU,F 1 x MS630-AA 2450 MicroVAX II - 1 MB MEM EXP FOR KA630,DUAL HEIGHT 1 x DELQA-M 5460 DELQA/ COMM CTLR ETH TO Q-BUS - DEC ETHERNET QBUS ADAPTOR If you have interest about this offer, please contact Mr. Holan tel.: ++420-602-239252 or e-mail : DECOMP(a)email.cz or ludek.mrkva(a)compaq.com Best Regards Ludek Mrkva -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies -- kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech [dot] com Web: http://www.bluefeathertech.com "...No matter how we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them..."

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Computer/Ham Swapmeets

by KB9VU＠aol.com

Dayton is May 19, 20 and 21

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Computer/Ham Swapmeets

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Nick Oliviero <oliv555(a)arrl.net> wrote: > Does anyone know when the Foothill (Palo Alto) meet comes off of > its winter hiatus? I'd like to get to the seasons opening event. If past years are any guide, I'd guess it would be 11 March. (2nd Saturday of the month, March through October.) -Frank McConnell

24 years, 10 months

I found an HP150 (model 45851A?)--how do I make it work?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Peter Pachla" <peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk> wrote: > If that's the one which looks very much like the terminals HP supply with > their HP 3000 series mainframes then I'd very much like to get my hands on > one (not to mention an HP-120 or 125). There are two styles of 150. One is the 150A/B, and in rough outline it looks something like a 120 or 2382 terminal but does have different casework from those. These models have a 9-inch display screen; I think the only differences between A and B are the ROM'd firmware and accompanying MS-DOS version (and I do recall that it was possible to upgrade a 150A to a 150B with a firmware-and-software swap) but someone else may know better. Then there is the 150-II aka 150C aka Touchscreen II. It's in a boxy enclosure with tiltable 12" display screen. I think the 2392 terminal might have similar styling (2393 does not, it uses the 37531A pale green-screen monitor with the terminal logic in a separate box). After HP introduced the Vectra (PC-compatible, at least more so than the 150) and 150 sales dropped off, and ran out of 2647F terminals, HP started shipping 150-IIs as consoles for /68 and /70 systems. (Maybe /64s too.) Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of terminals HP sell these days. 700/9x? I don't think they ever made a 150 that looks like those, although they did make some monochrome VGA monitors in a similarly-styled case. -Frank McConnell

24 years, 10 months

Thrift store finds...

by af-list＠wfi-inc.com

Book day today...I passed up 15 books I would have liked to have but was too stingy to shell out the $$$ for. What I did pick up is: Electronic data Processing, E. Wainright Martin, 1961. Intel Microprocessor and Peripheral Handbook, vol.2, 1987. 68000 Assembly Language Programming, Kane/Hawkins/Leventhal, 1981. Motorola MC68020 User's Manual, 1984. I also grabbed a couple of genuine Apple mousepads and a Macally clone keyboard for $2. They also had an HP terminal keyboard, but no terminal. I'm keeping my eyes open... Cheers, Aaron

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Computer/Ham Swapmeets

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- James Pryor <pryor(a)wi.net> wrote: > Does anyone know of a site listing upcoming swapmeets? > > I'm interested mainly in the midwest area. The best resource I know is the ARRL - http://www.arrl.com/hamfests.html You can search by region or State. > Dayton Hamvention? http://www.hamvention.org/ > Trenton Computerfest? Dunno... never been. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain goes away on 15 March. See http://www.infinet.com/ for details. Please update your address lists to reflect my new address: erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

24 years, 10 months

Machines available, Birmingham UK.

by peter.pachla＠wintermute.org.uk

Hi Due to the arrival of an RS/6000 and another MicroVAX II I really need to get rid of the following gear....quickly! Available free, or in exchange for stuff I can use (email me for a copy of the wants list): 3Com 3Station x2 286 based, PC compatible diskless workstations. Acorn BBC Model B Apple file://e CBM +4 Complete system, including tapes and cartridges. CBM C-16 Machine only. CBM PET 4032 (small screen) CBM PET 4032 (large screen) CBM PET 8032 x2 CBM PET 8096 C/W 8050 drives, 8032P printer, software & manuals. DEC DECMate III IBM PC System Units NCR system Integral monitor, printer and tape drive. Tandy CoCo II Complete with a couple of cartridges. There may also be a bunch of other stuff to come too, depending on whether people who previously showed an interest still want it. Email me directly please, let's not clog up the list with this. TTFN - Pete. -- Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer. Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC) peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk | www.wintermute.org.uk --

24 years, 10 months

Stuff to trade/stuff I'm looking for

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list(a)wfi-inc.com> wrote: [Aaron's looking for:] > A keyboard for my HP2649 terminal > > HP2392, HP2622, or HP2645 terminal. I need one for my 3000 (using a laptop > with an HP term program right now). The 2649 I have is dubious; I get a > screen full of what looks like garbage to me, but then again, I don't have > a keyboard and, in addition, the 2649 is interesting in that it could have > a custom program on it for something other than being a straight terminal. I can't remember whether the terminal would come up without the keyboard (but I think so), and I don't really know for sure what is inside a 2649 though I think it's not too different from a 2641/2645/2648, meaning an 8080 processor...unfortunately my memory's far enough gone that I don't really remember what's inside a 2645 either beyond a bunch of boards. But those boards would be things like a processor card (which I think also has ROM and about 1KB of RAM), a keyboard interface, a datacomm interface, one or more cards for the display, and zero or more memory cards. Some of the cards (but not the memory) would also be joined at their tops by a sort of "frontplane" interconnect board. That said, there's limited interchangeability between 264X terminal keyboards. Once upon a time I swapped keyboards and keyboard interface cards between a 2640B and 2645A just to see if I could, and it mostly worked. Of course, there was the matter that the 2640B keyboard didn't have all the same keys, and its baud rate switch wasn't labeled above 2400. So far as the 3000's concerned, you could also use 262x (for x>1; 2621 will work for character mode but will not support VPLUS block-mode applications), 2382 (which is nice and small but has a 9" display), 239x, or 700/9x terminals. Or an HP150, which pretends to be a 2623A graphics terminal when it's not being a personal computer. BTW, I think you mentioned passing up some HP terminal keyboards, and you might want to stop that, as the keyboards have a habit of becoming detached from the rest of the terminal on their way through the surplus food chain. Once you start thinking about network configuration with NMMGR, a 264X terminal can be a problem as later versions of NMMGR were made to use the terminal's function key display area for some screens, and 264X terminals don't have a function key display area. I have no idea why NMMGR was changed; as near as I can tell it was mostly gratuitous on HP's part and NMMGR will still function correctly, you just have to know which function keys correspond to which functions on those screens. (Guess who was still using a 2645 as the system console and only hardwired terminal on his 3000/58. Fortunately, I did know which buttons to push.) On the other hand, the 2645 will run Space Invaders, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that the 2649 would too. > An HD for my HP3000 that will fit in the bottom rack space. I've gotten > some great info from Joe Rigdon on models and have my eyes open; I need > something big enough so that I can do the initial install of MPE V 3P with > full subsys (it's been estimated that I need at least 100mb or so). A 7958 is about (a little larger than, I think) 100MB and will work and fit in a 3000/37 cabinet. 7958B is faster than 7958A if it matters. I think bigger numbers (e.g. 7959 and 796x) are larger capacities. -Frank McConnell

24 years, 10 months

CD rom from "Microsoft Access 2.0 How-To CD" book

by jott＠saturn.ee.nd.edu

Hello - I know this doesn't meet the 10 year rule, but it is obsolete. I bought a copy of this book. When I got home I noticed the CD was missing. I called the publisher to buy copy of the CD. They told me the book was out of print and couldn't sell me a CD. I ask if I found one, could I leaglly make a copy. They said yes. I am looking for the cd in order to make a copy. I have a cd burner. Thanks. john -- ************************************************************************ * * * * John Ott * Email: jott(a)saturn.ee.nd.edu * * Dept. Electrical Engineering * * * 275 Fitzpatrick Hall * * * University of Notre Dame * Phone: (219) 631-7752 * * Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA * * * * * ************************************************************************

24 years, 10 months

OT: Question about GIF optimisation

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Is there any tool known to optimize GIF files in size ? >It hapened that I just changed some GIFs and without >changeing the content the files did grow. After some >research I found that the editor I used adds some headers >(or whatever) structures, increasing the file size. >Not a big increase, but if a 900 Byte picture grows >to 1100 I'd like to remove the overhead. The best way is to convert the GIF into a "portable" bitmap (i.e. nothing but the bits), then back into a GIF again. I've been doing this for a decade with a package called NetPBM: NetPBM, GRAPHICS, Suite of graphic image format manipulation & conversion pgms Enhanced portable bitmap toolkit. The PBMPLUS toolkit allows conversions between image files of different format. By means of using common intermediate formats, only 2 * N conversion filters are required to support N distinct formats, instead of the N**2 which would be required to convert directly between any one format and any other. The package also includes simple tools for manipulating portable bitmaps. As of the last release I built (early 90's), it was supposedly available at: * wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), directory /graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM * ikaros.fysik4.kth.se (130.237.35.2), directory /pub/netpbm. * ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (134.106.1.9). This site also carries binaries for the Amiga. * peipa.essex.ac.uk (155.245.115.161), directory ipa/src/manip * ftp.rahul.net (192.160.13.1), directory /pub/davidsen/source * ftp.cs.ubc.ca, directory /ftp/archive/netpbm What *I* like about NetPBM is that it's a command-line tool, not a "point-and-drool" graphics tool. This means that when I have a few thousand images to convert (as I just did yesterday) that I can do them all with a command script. I especially like it for things like auto-cropping and twiddling colormaps to make backgrounds be "transparent". -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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