Ok, I need some assistance. I'm working on restoring an older Japanese computer that requires a male to male 8 PIN DIN cable to link with some peripherals. Does anyone have a good source for cables like this? I know I can probably solder something together, but I was hoping somebody knew of a resource for these which required slightly less work. Thanks.
*>I know that I will get a flame just for this inquiry, but here goes.
*>
*>I found an article on eBay that I bid on and rather than sending
*>a Money Order, I thought I might try paypal? Can anyone
*>please comment? It seems reasonable from the outside as
*I think PayPal is a great idea.
I agree, but I don't think it helps Jerome since he isn't in the US, and Paypal
doesn't deal with either buyers nor sellers who don't have US Postal
addresses.
Jerome is in Canada, I should note, but I don't know if it's possible for him
to get a US postal address just to use Paypal or not. I think the Paypal
rules strictly state that you must be a *resident of the US*, and that a
US postal address isn't good enough (though I'm not sure they could tell
the difference.) (Certainly while I was living in Canada, having a US postal
address and bank account helped me a lot with many financial issues.)
There are other services that don't suffer from Paypal's problems - most
noticably E-bay's Billpoint service, and Amazon's electronic payments -
though of course the seller must sign up with these services as well as the
buyer.
Tim.
To all:
I don't know if this classifies as a classic, but I am trying to work
wonders with an HP Vectra 5/90 XU. Hewlett Packard is less than worthless
for support . . . is there a list for vintage HPs or can anyone here help??
Thanks in advance.
Bill
I'm working on a power supply that has four old big honkin' capacitors,
two 10,000uF 25V and two 95,000uF 15V electrolytics, dating from 1977.
The question is, should I repair them (reconditioning with a variac... or
lightbulbs in series, since I don't have a variac :) or should I just
consider them most likely lost to time and attempt to replace them with
more modern parts? The power supply is otherwise fine, and in fact on a
whim, I was able to power it up and get steady power from it, no hint of
a problem. I just worry about the poor caps after being off for so long.
Opinions?
-Seth
--- Will Jennings <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Third, does anyone have any spare RK05 packs?
I have a number of packs. I know that RT-11 V4 is on some of them; others
appear to be data, but I haven't read them.
What's the going rate for ancient media these days?
-ethan
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Kevin,
These cards are indeed the RK06/7 controller (RK611).
M7900 - Unibus interface
M7901 - Register module
M7902 - Control module
M7903 - Data module
M7904 - Drive interface module
AFAIK, it uses it's own 9 slot backplane for these cards.
Ed
Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
>
> Hi Group:
>
> I found the following modules in a recently-acquired 11/34A:
>
> M7900
> M7901
> M7902
> M7903
> M7904
>
> These are all hex height modules, I suspect that they form an RK07
> controller, however they are NOT in the latest field guide.
>
> Any info appreciated,
>
> Kevin
>
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Bill <william(a)seniorsix.org> wrote:
> I don't know if this classifies as a classic, but I am trying to work
> wonders with an HP Vectra 5/90 XU. Hewlett Packard is less than worthless
> for support . . . is there a list for vintage HPs or can anyone here help??
No, it doesn't qualify. The rule is supposed to be "computers 10
years old and older", and even then some of us think IBM PC clones
(especially the semi-proprietary ones like HP Vectras) are mostly
more frustrating than interesting.
But I'm feeling kindly disposed tonight, so I will point out that HP
has a web site. I have no idea what you're trying to do but maybe
there is something there to help you do it, or at least tell you
why it's a bad idea to do it with a Vectra.
Starting from http://www.hp.com/ I click on "support", then (on the
resulting page) "business pc's" (sic; apparently HP's new standard web
page design discourages the use of upper case alphabetic characters)
because HP uses the Vectra brand name for business PCs and some other
name(s) for home PCs. That gets me to a form where I can "enter
product name & number" so I key in "Vectra 5/90 XU".
That gets me to
http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vectrasupport/level1/home.html .
There's a "Select a model" pull-down menu where I select "hp
vectra xu 5/xx" which takes me to
http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vectrasupport/indexes/Driver24.html ,
which has links to drivers and other software for that model. It also
has a link to a "technical notes" page with some documentation,
http://www.support.vectra.hp.com/vectrasupport/indexes/Document24.html .
If that's not enough rope, try Usenet groups comp.sys.hp.hardware
and/or comp.sys.hp.misc -- there are some folks there who are familiar
with 1995's Vectra.
-Frank McConnell
Oh, one other thing.
I read "Soul of a New Machine" back when the book was new. A few years
later, in 1986, I joined a company where there was a manager by the name
of Carl Alsing. I didn't recall the name until somebody told me that Carl
was one of the players in that book.
So I went back and reread the book and I was really impressed by
Tracy Kidder's writing. When he described Carl in the book, his
description was really great and captured many aspects of Carl's
personality in just a few words.
It gave the rest of the book much more credibility to me.
-----
Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
From: Neil Cherry <ncherry(a)home.net>
>> SYSTEM = ROOT
>> FIELD is often there, nearly the same privs as system
>
>Do they have a default password? (probably SYSTEM/SYSTEM and
FIELD/FIELD)
NO! for the uninstalled system they are return/return (blank) but that
is
like first thing chaged as the login at that point is set to force a
password change.
There is a break in procedure for old systems where the password is lost.
For new installs the password is set on login.
>> Yes if you have a third part SCSI controller. I have a CMD200
>> with a RZ56 and a Seagate Baracuda in my MVII along with
>> an RQDX3/RD54 MFM.
>I have a KSQSA/M5976-SA - Qbus to SCSI adapter, will that do?
Dunno I dont have one or data on it. I'd bet it would though.
For the disk however you may hae to stick to the older 1gb
and under drives. the microvax-II boot knows RL, MSCP,
eithernet, and can search for devices that have boot roms
or act like MSCP compatable.
Allison
At 09:26 PM 9/23/2000 -0400, THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
>Thank you for not charging for your services any longer. Bag at the local
>store or pump gas.
>
>Most of us would be so humilated by the prospect of your question to even
>pose it. Instead we would solve our problem and be done. Please confine
>your questions to subjects worthy of this august group of folk. I am
>ashamed for you.
GOOD GOD CHRIST!! Where the holy hell did this come from!?!? I take this
to mean you DON'T know a damn thing about obsolete dual processor boards?!?
How about this: I have an old IBM 860 . . . what can I upgrade the memory
to? What kind of solder should I use!?
All this coming from some goon who lives in ASHEVILLE!? MOVE TO RALEIGH,
YOU FREAK!
Only on a damn listserv can the world support obsolete computer
snobs. This is crazy. This list reminds me of the damn purebred Doberman
Pinscher list. Heh.
Christ.
