Received this and a later request to post here. As normal, please
contact Mr. Hamilton directly.
- don
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:20:58 -0700
From: DJ Hamilton <djhamilton(a)uswest.net>
To: donm(a)cts.com
Subject: Old Kaypro's Home?
Can't bear to throw my old Kaypro II and manuals in the dumpster.
Does anybody out there want it or the Okidata 92 that goes with it?
Would any foolish old sentimental collectors want parts for their
museum? The sound the Kaypro would make as it crashes into the
bottom of the dumpster would be more than I can take.
Any suggestions?
DJ Hamilton Denver
(303) 355-2833
This is an integrated file server that runs a hacked up
version of MS-dos, along with 3+Share, which was 3Com's
Networking software. It came standard with a 70Mb
hard disk, 60MB tape (Wangtek 5099EN24) and 800k memory.
It differs memory-map wise from the PC in that, of course,
there is no ISA bus nor video adaptor, hence they could
allocate more memory to MS-DOS.
You could get a Cache card for it, which allowed LIM 3.0
expanded memory operation for disk caching. The 3Server3
uses an 80168 cpu at 8Mc (IIRC).
I used to make a fairly decent living maintaining these;
then Novell took over, and we all know what happened after
that.
Jeff
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:10:35 -0600 "McFadden, Mike" <mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu>
writes:
> I just came across a wierd computer box. It is labeled 3com 3server3
> and
> has a dc-300 cartridge tape drive it it. I haven't opened the box
> yet. I
> looked on the 3com website and it says that it is a PC server from
> 1984.
> Does anyone know anything more?
> TIA
> Mike
> michaelmcfadden(a)sprintmail.com
>
>
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>While debugging SCSI I noticed that there was another board sitting
>"over" the mainboard on my VS3100. When I run 'Test 50' is shows up as
>'? SPGFX xxx.xxx' which, I'm guessing, is a color graphics board and
>there is something wrong with it. (the '?')
I believe so... either 4- or 8-plane color
>Does this mean that there is simply no monitor attached?
>
>Is this frame buffer compatible with the QDSS?
Can't answer
>Was there ever a "skunk box" version of the QDSS? (I found some "right
>angle" QDSS cables that would work in a BA213 but I didn't think there
>was ever an S-box cab kit for the QDSS.
There was no skunk box version of the board (meaning it has the
S-box handles)... but there is a skunk-box version of the
break-out panel so that one can be used... I have one such
unit on my uVaxIII at home... works just fine...
And yes, the cable with the right-angle connector is required,
otherwise the cabinet front won't close...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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While debugging SCSI I noticed that there was another board sitting "over"
the mainboard on my VS3100. When I run 'Test 50' is shows up as '? SPGFX
xxx.xxx' which, I'm guessing, is a color graphics board and there is
something wrong with it. (the '?')
Does this mean that there is simply no monitor attached?
Is this frame buffer compatible with the QDSS?
Was there ever a "skunk box" version of the QDSS? (I found some "right
angle" QDSS cables that would work in a BA213 but I didn't think there was
ever an S-box cab kit for the QDSS.
--Chuck
On the SCSI drive, disabling parity made it work. Without parity disabled I
would get a machine check ?21 CORRUPTN. Weird, DEC usually leans in favor
of error detecting/correcting protocols.
On Mar 17, 9:53, W.B.(Wim) Hofman wrote:
> I got an IBM disk (from a PS/2 55SX) I would like to use. It is
presumable
> an SCSI one with the following flood of numbers on it.
> P/N 6128256 FRu P/n 6128272 MLC C13052 Model WD-387T
> Is there somewhere a site with data of such a disk, with the pinnout or
can
> anyone send me the data?
I don't have any figures for geometry or access times, but I do know that
it's a 60MB ESDI drive, not SCSI.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
In the 'Are you as crazy as me' catagory, I just found something that looks
really, really cool. Anyone for running OS/360 on your Linux box? If so
meet Hercules!
http://www.snipix.freeserve.co.uk/hercules.htmhttp://jmaynard.home.texas.net/hercos360/
Something tells me I just found a use for that Dual 400Mhz Celeron I've got,
as this looks to require some *SERIOUS* horsepower to run!
OH, Wow!!! :^)
Zane
PS now if I wasn't *still* stuck at work with problems! :^(
From: "Stephanie Ring"
sring(a)uslink.net
I would like to know what material can
be substituted for the black slide on
3.5 floppies when these are missing,
on the right hand top corner.
We used PDP 11/04's with a cassette drive to collect microbiology data.
There is nothing more frustrating than coming in in the morning and finding
the cassette tape drive trying to write to the cassette and rocking back and
forth on the same spot until the oxide is worn off. We didn't have enough
memory to store all of the data in the PDP-11 and there were no disk drives
in the system. The entire program was loaded into a PROM and booted the
machine. It was one large program that monitored the incubator, moved the
test kit carousel, removed the cards, read the optical transmittance, and
did the data analysis. The console was a VT-52 with the hard copy option.
Even earlier incarnations had PDP 11/05's with core memory.
I seem to remember that we were excited when the RX01's came out, we
purchased DSD versions and wrote the data to 8" floppies. We wrote data to
the correct sector and when we were done the data was in a RSX usable file.
What memories.
Mike
michaelmcfadden(a)sprintmail.com
I've always used a strip of black electrical tape. It'll work with either
mechanical or optical sensors.
Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
> > From: "Stephanie Ring"
> > sring(a)uslink.net
> >
> >
> > I would like to know what material can
> > be substituted for the black slide on
> > 3.5 floppies when these are missing,
> > on the right hand top corner.
Friends,
I got an IBM disk (from a PS/2 55SX) I would like to use. It is presumable
an SCSI one with the following flood of numbers on it.
P/N 6128256 FRu P/n 6128272 MLC C13052 Model WD-387T
Is there somewhere a site with data of such a disk, with the pinnout or can
anyone send me the data?
Thanks in advance
Wim Hofman
