I'm considering doing the VAXstation 4000 VLC manual next
It being the most ubiquitous box and one that takes regular 4mb simms and has a big hdd, and one that is supported on the latest netBSD V 1.5, do that! And link both pages (the 3100/76 and the 4000VLC manual) to the netbsd.org site, please, I would like to encourage yo to do it! Certainly your 3100/76 Manual is excellent work, it was very helpful to me, Jeff, a big THANK YOU.It matches nicely the www.vaxarchive.org/hw/vs3100/index.html
Do you have also the VT 1300 Manual?
Or even better: The VRE01 Manual? VRE01 being that flatpanel display (see attached!) that works on the b/w mono card in 1-bit mode I guess, not 8-bit (GPX vs SPX)
My 4000VLC's have all the fancy 256 colour framebuffer (?) and no b/w only provision, so I guess I cannot use them for that monitor unfortunaley.A good set of pix can be found on www.terrigal.net.au/~acms/album/h10002.jpg
Again: Thanks.
As to the CD I found a cr 503b = compaq 142223-201 that is listed as compatible.....lets hope it does the trick.
Fred
Fred, do a search for RRD40/42/43. These are the original DEC CD-ROM
drives that I absolutely positively know will work with these boxes- they
are jumperable to do 512 or 2048 byte sectors. (VMS requires drives that
do 512.)
RRD40s are really old and need a caddy.
You might be interested to know that I've got the Owner's Guide for the
VAXstation 3100 Model 76 online at:
http://www.whiteice.com/~williamwebb/intro/DOC-i.html
I'm considering doing the VAXstation 4000 VLC manual next, but only if
there's a demand for it since that much HTML pretty much by hand is a
real bitch.
William W. Webb
I don't know if it's outside of the scope of this mailing list to talk
about things for sale, but I've got hold of some old 64 x 64 bit core
frames that would look really nice in a shadowbox or under glass as a
desktop doodad.
Mfr. Lockheed Electronics Corp.
I can also lay my hands on a 4K module (9 frames with diode arrray
connector cards)
If anybody's interested, drop me an email and we'll talk about price.
Apologies in advance if I've transgressed.
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Goldarg <goldarg(a)dub.net> wrote:
> I recently got a AT&T SCSI drive from a friend and wanted to see if I could
> Model: 97536DA
> Option: STD
> Ser No: 3001a97212
> Handle With Care
>From the model and serial number, I'd guess that this drive was
made by Hewlett-Packard in the first week of 1990. Those look
like HP model and serial numbers.
http://www.tame.com/hp/hpinfo.htm suggests that a 97536DA is a
330MB ESDI disk drive, OEM version.
If you think it's SCSI, I wouldn't be surprised that it is
high-voltage differential SCSI; HP did that sort of thing.
-Frank McConnell
I took at bunch of pictures of the inside and outside of the 4170 today.
I'm posting them to "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/tek-4170/".
There's no text there, only pictures at the moment, so you'll have to be
satisfied with looking at the pictures for the time being. I hope to put up
a page tomorrow with links and some descriptions.
I also scanned the page that describes the 4170 in the 1985 Tektronix
catalog and posted it there as well.
I *think* I may have found the right serial cable to connect it to the
terminal today but I also found that my only Tektronix terminal is acting
peculiar (it won't let me into the set up mode!) I'll try hooking up the
terminal tomorrow and if it doesn't work then I'll have to go look for
another terminal.
Keeping my fingers crossed!
Joe
At 05:53 PM 1/19/01 +0000, jpero wrote:
>Be specific. There are many Solo models based on numbers by gateway
>and bad news, gateway owns only this design, and there are no
>other notebooks that has this design.
>
>But, what that P3C? That's not solo.
One is a P-75, it doesn't say "Solo" it says "P3C" on
the bottom label. Judging by eBay items, this is the
laptop's designation. Search eBay for P3C and there
are plenty of hits.
The other is a P-90 and it *does* say just "Solo" so
I think that makes it a 2000 in terms of the model
numbers that followed in that line. The case is quite
identical to the other.
Any help would be appreciated! They're circa 1994-5,
so they're only half on topic... as opposed to Bill Gate's
personality traits, which are older than 10 years and
therefore on topic.
- John
Hello everyone,
Anyone know where I would find the DEC part number for a VS3100/M76 color
option board? I've got a board labeled "VS40X 8 Plane COlor Option" but I
don't know if it would work in a M76 or not.
--Chuck
Picked up several items for 50 cents each! I got:
mac IIci and a colour display for it.
PS/2 model 70 with NIC and...
a TRS80 data terminal DT-1. Looks just like a model 2/3 except its very light
and has no floppy drives. had two cables coming out of it, presumably for a
printer and modem of some sort. while i was bringing all this stuff up to pay
for it, a guy had mentioned to me that if i had been in an adjacent county a
few days ago, i could have gotten a lot of other computers. He said many
apples (dont know what models) where simply thrown in the dumpster because
they didnt know what to do with them. I guess the hard part is how to let non
computer types know of computer rescuing people ready to avert this kind of
tragedy.
On 2001-01-19 classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org said:
>There are other brands which work for booting as well, such as the
>Toshiba XM-5401B, XM-5701, etc which are probably less expensive
>than the DEC branded ones and work effectively the same.
>Paul
>On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, William W Webb wrote:
>> Fred, do a search for RRD40/42/43. These are the original DEC
>>CD-ROM drives that I absolutely positively know will work with
>>these boxes- they are jumperable to do 512 or 2048 byte sectors.
>>(VMS requires drives that do 512.)
Any CDROM drive that can be switched to 512 byte sectors will work on
the VAXstation. Sun computers also want 512 byte sectors, so a drive
>from a Sun system is usable too. A list of drives that (might) work:
VAX compatible CD drives
Below is a list of SCSI CD drives known or believed to work with VAX
systems. The basic requirement is support for 512-byte block size.
Some information (entries marked with a "*") was extracted from the
<A HREF="http://saturn.tlug.org/suncdfaq/">Sun CD-ROM FAQ</A> - most older
Sun workstations share the 512 byte block size requirement. The FAQ
also has additional details about some of the drives listed below,
as well as instructions on how to modify certain models of Toshiba CD-ROM
drives to change their block size.
DEC RRD40, slow, first generation CD-ROM
DEC RRD42, 1X
DEC RRD43
DEC RRD45
DEC RRD46
(*) Plextor 4x/6x/8x/10x/12x
(*) Plextor 12x/20x
PlexWriter RW 4/2/20
Most, if not all Plextor drives. See http://www.plextor.com and
check if the drive has a jumper of DIP-switch for block size.
(*) Hitachi CDR-1750S
(*) Laser Magnetic Storage International Company (LMSI) CM234, 1X
(*) Panasonic CR-503B, 2X
(*) Panasonic CD-506B, 8X
(*) Pioneer 4.4x SCSI-2
(*) Pioneer DRM600/DRM604X
(*) Sony CDU-541/561/8012
Sony CDU55
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http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/ My home page (old computers,music,photography)
http://www.vaxarchive.org/ Info on old DEC VAX computers
Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered
Hmmm, I tried to send the real Part 1 twice and it didn't come through;
maybe too
much outdated information. Anyway, it didn't have much that was useful at
this point. Maybe at least the table of contents will make it through this
time.
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Is anyone familiar with the Victor V386MX? It's a miniscule 386 tower, only as
wide as a 3,5" drive, and seems rather common around here.
What's interesting about its architecture is that the CPU and graphics are
placed on one sandwiched ISA board, which plugs into an ISA backplane carrying
some extra electronics such as FDC.
This week, though, I found another Victor CPU board, but carrying a 486SX
instead, and with an additional PS/2 mouse port. It doesn't seem to have the
IDE header, though.
What kind of computer could this have been used in?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6.
Iggy tipsar: Koppla aldrig en C128-transformator till en A500. ?ven om
kontakterna ser likadana ut, ligger sp?nningarna fel.
DNS problems that were, for the past two days, interfering with normal
mail flow in and out of bluefeathertech.com have been corrected. A great
big CLASSICCMP "Thank you!" goes to Jay West, our list maintainer, for
helping me to troubleshoot the problem. ;-)
Although she's not a listmember, Juli Kislenger at Qwest Internet also
deserves a big batch of kudos. I consider it a miracle that I got her
instead of some newbie handling my case.
The end result: Blue Feather is now entirely self-hosted, including local
DNS boxes. The only things I'm dependent on USQwest for now are my actual
connectivity and my Usenet feed. Everything else is most definitely local
(about 30 feet away in my garage, to be exact).
Lots of stress, lots of work, but well worth it in the end knowing that I
can now configure the domain -exactly- the way I want it to be configured.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).
I'm not sure this is 10 years old yet, but anyway... the info is so
scarce you'd think it was. :-) Anybody have the pinout of this DB-15
serial port?
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:28:54 -0800 (PST) Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com>
writes:
> > Wait a minute, guys. Did this drive come with a bridge board?
> > I've seen a couple of AT&T units with ESDI drives, with fancy
> > EMULEX bridges attached thereto. Of course, if yours is an
> > expansion box, then there would be no controller-- the
> > emulex bridges could handle two or four drives, depending
> > on the model.
>
> The Pocket PCRef lists the 'D'suffix as SCSI, Jeff. The ESDI
> version
> has an 'E' suffix. Does not lis the 'DA' suffix, though.
>
> - don
D'oh! (Slaps forehead).
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Well, there is no RS-232C port with the basic interface. This requires
a card to be installed in the bay on top of the interface. If you have
this card installed, the signals appear at the "Expansion Board Card
Edge" which is in the middle of the front of the interface.
The card edge is 40 pin. The following are the main signals an pins:
18-TD; 20-SGND; 22-RD; 30-CD; 32-CTS; 34-DTR; 36-RTS; 38-RI; 40-DSR.
Louis
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:21:23 -0800 (PST), Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
*
*I need to know where the serial port connector is on a TRS-80
Expansion
*Interface. I have two of them. One has its ports labeled, and one of
the
*ports is labeled "MODEM" but it is simply an edge connector. Is this
the
*serial port? If so, what's the pinout?
*
*Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
*
*Sellam Ismail Vintage
Computer
Festival
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http://www.vintage.org
*
*
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:19:29 -0500 (EST) Bill Pechter
<pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> writes:
> > Goldarg <goldarg(a)dub.net> wrote:
> > > I recently got a AT&T SCSI drive from a friend and wanted to see
> if I could
> >
> > > Model: 97536DA
> > > Option: STD
> > > Ser No: 3001a97212
> > > Handle With Care
> >
> > >From the model and serial number, I'd guess that this drive was
> > made by Hewlett-Packard in the first week of 1990. Those look
> > like HP model and serial numbers.
> >
> > http://www.tame.com/hp/hpinfo.htm suggests that a 97536DA is a
> > 330MB ESDI disk drive, OEM version.
> >
> > If you think it's SCSI, I wouldn't be surprised that it is
> > high-voltage differential SCSI; HP did that sort of thing.
> >
> > -Frank McConnell
>
> They were pretty common in both single ended and differential.
>
> I'll bet it's differential SCSI.
Wait a minute, guys. Did this drive come with a bridge board?
I've seen a couple of AT&T units with ESDI drives, with fancy
EMULEX bridges attached thereto. Of course, if yours is an
expansion box, then there would be no controller-- the
emulex bridges could handle two or four drives, depending
on the model.
Jeff
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I picked up a laptop with a broken screen because it had
more memory and a larger HD and a faster processor than
a similar model I already owned. I'd like to swap the
displays.
Any tips on disassembling laptops? I have removed the bezel
around the screen - two screws and pop the tension clips
around the edge.
I found four screws along the back, but they didn't seem
to loosen anything. The keyboard may pop out, but I don't
know how to disengage it.
- John
>>My friend has a Mattel Aquarius computer on eBay - thought I'd mention it
since it's still cheap and may be of interest to someone that collects older
machines. It's item 1208196262 if you're inclined to check it out. I believe
it's a fairly complete setup and in good condition. I can however attest to
the fact that the seller is very repautable and very good to work with.
Hehe - I found one yesterday in a thrift store along with another ebay
perennial, the Binatone TV Master MK10 pong, boxed :)
The same shop also has the following, all for (I guess) between ukp10 and
ukp30:
Acorn Archimedes 3000 with monitor
Amstrad PCW9512
Amstrad PCW9512+
Amstrad PCW8256 (single drive)
Amstrad PCW8256 (twin drive)
Amstrad PCW8xxx (it's in a box so I can't see it too well)
Atari 520STe
Atari 2600 (PacMan edition, boxed)
Atari 7800 with PSU and both controllers *with* thumbpads still intact
Amiga 500+
Victor 286PC
Amstrad 386 PC (Can't remember the designation)
Apple keyboard for a compact Mac
If anyone's interested please contact me off list - the place is only 5
minutes from here.
As an aside, I picked up a Memotech MTX512 on monday (along with a boxed
Color Genie (<bounce>), boxed JVC HV-7GB MSX and Toshiba HX10) and it's a
really odd machine. For a start its 3 1/2 inches longer than my other MTX512
and has no stickers on it whatsoever apart from the name label, not even
port designations on the back. Inside looks pretty normal, except the board
is right on the left to allow access for the expansion slot but they've left
the keyboard on the right, and its an MTX500 keyboard. Haven't tested it yet
but I was told it worked.
As luck would have it I found Mr. Memotech himself down in London but he
hasn't got back to me yet!
Oh, anyone got a spare manual for a Color Genie? :)
cheers
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C CAT Limited
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<http://www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk> (home)
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Errrm, I have 8" hard-sector disks.. they are used by my Wang 2200MVP..
which would mean the Nicolet 1080 possibly also uses hard-sector floppies,
since they share the same floppy disk drives, Shugart 9xx, can't remember
the number offhand. The DisplayWriter uses the 31SD.
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From: Clint Wolff (VAX collector) <vaxman(a)qwest.net>
>There is a small copper (berylium?) bracket on the bottom of the RD53
>which connects the spindle to ground. Removing said bracket reduces
Only if its a RD53, a Micropolus 1325, yes removing the static drain
does invite a minor headto media snap. Better to move or lube with
a tiny bit of graphite.
>will considerably shorten the life of the drive... My personal belief
>is the drive is near the end of its life anyway when it starts to whine,
>so removing the bracket doesn't do much of anything to it...
RD53s generally suffer from heat, keep em cool and they do better.
Same for RD54s. I have a RD54 that screams, I've been waiting for
it to fail for the last 5 years...it hasn't.
Allison
Hi;
Looking for info on NeXt 1100 Pizza Boxes. What is the processor? Memory?
Color/Mono? HD? CD? Collectability? Things to look out for? Accessories
needed?
Paxton
On January 18, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> Wow...there's actually a dutch auction for 4 TRS-80 Model
> II's on eBay at the moment....no reserve at that. I've no connection
> to the seller but found it interesting since auctions for multiples
> of that type of hardware is fairly uncommon. The URL is:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1208570093
This is cool; I've always wanted a Model II. I'm gonna go for one.
-Dave McGuire
Howdy!
I recently got a AT&T SCSI drive from a friend and wanted to see if I could
get it working in my Sparc SLC but I don't have specs and cant find any online,
The drive has a number of labels on it
KS-23494 L11 B
5.25 Inch SCSI
Winchester Disk Drive
Model: 97536DA
Option: STD
Ser No: 3001a97212
Handle With Care
AT&T-CC 405 723 057 is below one bar code
AT*T-SN 9075361972212 is below a 2nd bar code
Its a big drive and spins up but probe-SCSI does not find it.
The last Label on the drive is
97536DA 6 8942 003 c3 b 2920
a9 6394 DIFF8840
Primary Rev Code: 3001
I'm wondering if the 'DIFF8840" part means its not normal SCSI and wont
work with my SLC
Any pointers to info or suggestions?
