Forwarded to both CLASSICCMP and port-VAX (NetBSD) mailing lists).
Found on Usenet. Got a fellow who's come across a VAXstation 3500
(Mayfair CPU?), and needs help with it. I've already tried answering some
of his questions, but if anyone else wants to send him mail please feel
free.
Thanks! Attachment follows.
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>>Subject: VAXstation 3500 help please
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>>I ve got a VAXstation 3500 with no cables or monitor
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>>I do have transceivers and various monitors, but have no clue
>>of how to connects any input/output devices....
>>
>>I'm a student and have a purely educational interest in the beast - no
>>love affairs or anything like that....
>>
>>What's inside of it?
>>What size of SCSI HD I can find inside?
>>How big is the memory?
>>Is there such a thing as video/memory?
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>>It comes with TK70 tape drive - is it still usable? how much data can it
>>write to a tape - I even have 2 tapes for it!
>>
>>I have also 2 VT220 things - can they work with the beast?
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>>thank you so much for any useful info
>>
>>alex
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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..."
Ok, its 4 months short of its 10th birthday but close enough. Work
has a Stardent 1500/3000 Titan? computer they will be getting rid of.
The machine did run when last powered on within the last year and comes
with manuals (OS and programming, not much hardware) and backup tapes.
It runs Unix. From what I understand it was for its time a "super mini"
with good graphics capability. I haven't used it so am not too familiar
with it.
The machine is in a 4 foot rack and takes up a good portion of it so pickup
in Gaithersburg MD is the best option if you want it. Anybody who offers
PDP-8 stuff for my collection gets it otherwise probably free to whoever can
take it. At this point work is saying they want to free the space but hasn't
actually decided to get rid of it, verified it has no resale value etc.
If you are interested let me know and I will let you know when work finishes
the process.
David Gesswein
djg(a)drs-esg.com
http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Old computers with blinken lights
My PDP 8/L that I recently acquired, has a cable that i assume is for
the console terminal. It has a 9 pin male connector with only pins
1 through 6 present. Is this a standard serial connection? This was
a papertape based system, so it may have been connected to a teletype
ASR 33. Will I need to locate something that can do 110 baud to use
as a console?
Also, I'm very curious about the other cables comming from the 8/L...
I have 6 flat black cables, similar to ribbon cable but thicker, with
9 'wires' on each cable. possibly each 'wire' is something similar
to coax, but i'm not sure... Each pair of these ribbon-like cables
go together into a centronics 36 pin male connector. thus there are
3 centronics connectors, which are labeled: "A D36", "B D35", "C D34".
Any clues as to what this might be for?
-Lawrence LeMay
Umm does this mean that I get a good deal from the 55 to 60 cents a pound
the scrapper I go to gives me for circut boards?
Will J
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In a message dated 5/18/2000 8:15:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
foo(a)siconic.com writes:
>
> What kind of truck is this? It sounds like a classic computer cornucopia.
> Did this truck get into some accident on the way to the computer store or
> something?
>
Trucks, Trailers and outbuildings are always around scrapyards. They often
get filled with "low value" scrap items "junk" that the yard owner doesn't
want to deal with when they come in, like terminals and printers. Some times
those piles sit for years.
Investigate all Shipping Containers. Sometimes they are used for storage, but
most of the time they are being filled with outgoing scrap on it's way to
China. If you can be there with your screwdrivers when it is being loaded
sometimes you can find neat stuff. You don't want to get in the way of the
loading operation, but if you have developed a relationship with the scrapper
you can often cull as it is being loaded.
Adopt your local scrapper. Offer twice the scrap value or more, don't get in
the way and you will be, more than likely, welcome.
Paxton
PS. Most of the scrap going into containers brings 5 to 10 cents per pound to
the dealer loading it.
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> From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela(a)albert.ssl.berkeley.edu>
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Cool AppleSoft BASIC trick I never thought of before
> Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:28 PM
>
> Of course, none of this is a concern with cooperative multitasking of
BASIC
> programs but if someone implements an interupt generator on a ][ for
> multitasking purposes, it could become a concern.
Someone did. The GEOS system came with a board that generated interrupts
that you could use if you did not have an Apple II mouse card to generate
the interrupts. Another interrupt generator could be a clock card.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
paulrsm(a)ameritech.net
> Are there any Crommeco experts out there? I have a couple of questiosn
>about the Cromemco terminals and printers.
I've got several thousand pages of Cromemco documentation here at the
moment, mostly on their S-100 boards and software packages, and a little
on terminals and printers. Which terminals and printers are you interested
in?
Tim.
Though the typing and CAPITIALIZATION done by said seller makes me want to
beat myself with a shovel, they are a really great person to do business
with, one of the most nice and understanding ones I've seen to be sure.. Not
to be making an ebay plug, but I guess the old "don't judge a book by its
cover" comes in here...
Will J
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