test-drb October 2001

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by mhstein＠usa.net

It's just been pointed out to me (thank you for your diplomacy, whoever you are) that my posts are a little hard to read for some people since I haven't been inserting CRs. Mea culpa, sorry, my forehead's getting quite a flat spot these days from all the slapping. I should have thought about and noticed that myself, especially on this list; I can just imagine all those ASR33s pounding away in the last column... (But at least I haven't been sending HTML <G>) mike

23 years, 1 month

HP-UX items

by paul＠orchard.wccnet.org

I have acquired some HP-UX 9000 series 700/800 items that I have no clue about and no use for. 1. Two identical manuals: "Installing HP-UX 10.10 and Updating from HP-UX 10.0x to 10.10." 2. Manual: "Support Media User's Manual PA-RISC Computer Systems." 3. CD-ROMs: "HP Instant Information CD HP-UX Release 10." June 1998 and April 1998. 4. CD-ROM: "HP-UX Diagnostic/Independent Product Release Media." June 1998 5. CD-ROMs: "10.20 Hardware Extensions 2.0 HP-UX 10.20 Servers" April 1998 "HP-UX Extensions Software" April 1998 6. CD-ROM: "HP-UX Recovery Release 10.20" 7. Four CD-ROMs: HP-UX Applications Release 10.20" Disks 1 through 4. June 1998. Can anyone use these? Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

23 years, 1 month

Apple II accelerator and Micromodem II questions

by dlw＠trailingedge.com

I have what looks like an accelerator board for an Apple II. Looks like a Saturn Systems Inc. Accelerator II. Has a 65c02c and 64 K of ram on board. Anyone have any info on this? Doc? What the jumper settings are (there is an 8 switch jumper block on it) or any software needed to use it? This system also has a Micromodem II in it but no doc or the interface from the board to the phone plug. Anyone have a spare plug or the pin outs to make one? Thanks. ----- "What is, is what?" "When the mind is free of any thought or judgement, then and only then can we know things as they are." David Williams - Computer Packrat dlw(a)trailingedge.com http://www.trailingedge.com

23 years, 1 month

Acronyms

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On 30-Oct-2001 Eric Chomko wrote: > > ROFLMAOGSFTH - rolling on floor laughing my ass off getting spliters > > from the hardwood > > 2 letters : K-Y Hey, watch it! This is a family list.... Unless that was a remark about a certain state, in which case I'd say, "Hey watch it! This is a family list..." ;-)

23 years, 1 month

Re. Hunt for DRV11-WA / DRV11-SA Field Maintenance Print Sets

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

From: Lowndesz(a)aol.com >I am trying to find Field Maintenance Print Sets for the following cards: > >- DRV11-WA >- DRV11-SA This may help: http://www.mainecoon.com/classiccmp/DRV11/ and another is here: http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm The DRV11-WA user guide can be found here: http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/boards.htm Antonio arcarlini(a)iee.org

23 years, 1 month

[Fwd: value of scrap]

by dec.parts＠verizon.net

> As soon as one has no choice but to send stuff to scrap > merchants, they then tend to start charging for taking it > away instead of paying for it. That might not happen with circuit boards though. What's being recovered is Gold, Palladium, Tantalum, maybe some silver, among other materials. And the competition amongst recyclers to be the one to be able to service this ought to keep them willing to pay for the raw materials. But break your equipment down, so you're just turning in the circuit boards. And if you separate the low yield PC grade ones from the high yield commercial grade ones, you still might do all right with them. > > Here in the UK that might change soon. It is about to become illegal to send > electronic waste to landfill so it _must_ be recycled. As soon as one has no > choice but to send stuff to scrap merchants, they then tend to start charging > for taking it away instead of paying for it. > > I have already seen the same happen with lead-acid batteries and old fridges, > to name but two examples, when the legislation came in stopping them being > disposed of by other means than sending them for scrap. > > -- > Regards > Pete

23 years, 1 month

A twist on blinkenlights

by dpeschel＠eskimo.com

While visiting the San Francisco area for the Computer Museum History Center's awards dinner, I swung by Stanford to see their exhibit of old (largely Stanford custom) computer hardware. Various groups at Stanford had computer systems (mostly PDP-6 and -10 I believe), but the exhibit highlights the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, a.k.a. SAIL. SAIL had a multiprocessor system containing a KA10, a KL10, and a PDP-6, as well as two smaller computers dedicated to video control, two megawords of memory (eight times the address space of the -10), and disk storage, so they obviously had enough blinkenlights for anyone. But one of the programmers added a box (looking more or less like a tiny traffic light) to his office. Green meant "normal operation". Yellow meant "parity error". (Failures tended to happen in clumps, so after finding one error, the software would kill the affected job and then search for all other errors and kill all other affected jobs.) Red meant "The OS has halted an Exec-mode DDT is running". (Think "kernel debugger".) No lights meant "Things are really messed up". Not exactly high bandwidth, but still an elegant metaphor! -- Derek

23 years, 1 month

MIPS/VMS

by vance＠ikickass.org

I was told at one time that work had begun on MIPS/VMS just before DEC's abandonment of the DECstation line in favor of Alpha. Does anyone (maybe a current Compaq employee) know where in some dark corner the sources might be found? Peace... Sridhar

23 years, 1 month

hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

by mhstein＠usa.net

-------------Original Message-------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:41:54 -0500 From: Jim Donoghue <jdonogh1(a)prodigy.net> Subject: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk Anybody ever see anything that uses hard sector 5 1/4 disks? I've only ever seen one in my lifetime - just curious if they were ever used anywhere else (the one I saw was used to load microcode into a mainframe CPU) *--- Commodore, for one, on their older low density drives. m -------------Original Message #2-------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:27:59 -0500 From: "Chandra Bajpai" <cbajpai(a)mediaone.net> Subject: RE: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk I've got a Northstar Advantage that uses them...anyone know where to get hard sector disks these days? - -Chandra *--- Might still have some; I'll look m

23 years, 1 month

[OT] New toy...

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr(a)verizon.net> > And the compilation of all contributions ... Only two still missing > > AAMAF - ??????????????????????????? As a matter of fact. > SAS - ????????????????????????????????? Sh*t and Shinola??? Glen 0/0

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb October 2001