This was just passed on to me:
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From: Francis Girard [mailto:fgirard@cisco.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:23 AM
To: canada(a)cisco.com; sales-eng(a)cisco.com
Subject: Anyone looking for an MSM Terminal Server for their museum???
A customer just called me to inform me that they're about to throw away about 10 very special terminal servers. They bought these back in 1990, and have serial numbers 000001 through 0000010! Hydro-Quebec may have very well been the first customer to purchase our MSM Terminal Server. I have no idea what these look like, but their still functional.
Is anyone interested in these??? Let me know ASAP as he's about to junk them. Note that, although he didn't suggest any form of compensation, I'm sure this customer would be very pleased of getting some sort of promo item (please, not a stress ball)....
Let me know.
Francis
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Francis Girard
Ing?nieur de r?seau
Les Syst?mes Cisco Canada Cie
1501, avenue McGill College, Bureau 600
Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3A 3M8
Tel : (514) 847-6853
Fax : (514) 847-6802
Pager : 1-800-68CISCO
fgirard(a)cisco.com
www.cisco.com
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My acquisition rate has exceeded my storage capacity so am making the
following available to list members pre-eBay. Bigger items to Houston
area only, (no shipping at this time).
All items in working condition unless otherwise noted.
IBM RS/6000 7012-370;aix3.x, kb, mouse, no key, FREE
no pwd,1gb hd, fdd, xtra boards, vid cable
DEC PDP 11/73; ba23, m8190ab, m8637dh, rx33, rqdx3 $100
rlv21,dhq11, rd52(doa), rt11 v5.4d kit
RA81 logic bd; cond ? FREE
ACT-10340 qniverter $10
mvII cpu+mem; m7606af, m7608bp $5
mvII cpu+2mem; m7606et, m7609ah, m7609ap $10
dssi m7769;s-handle $10
MAC 6100/66; w/DOS board, kbrd, mouse FREE
MAC 6100/66, not working FREE
MAC IIci FREE
DEC ba23 cabinet, unpopulated FREE
DEC ba213 cab, unpopulated FREE
DEC sz-12 storage expansion; rz55 FREE
DEC Ext Strage box, rz56 FREE
Vaxstation 4000/model 60;no hd $25
Vaxstation 3100/m76 SPX; vms6.x $25
Vaxstation 3100/m76 SPX $20
Microvax 3100/20e; vms $20
Infoserver 100; rz23(2)rrd.. $10
VT420 / LK401 $10
-nick o
281-553-6507
I found one DSSI cable to connect one of my two HSD05 controllers
to my VAX 4000/500 (I'm still looking for another). I've read that
the HSD05 controller is not very fast, so I used the disk speed
benchmark mybenchmark and tested an RZ28B vs. an RF72 and find the
HSD05-connected RZ28B is slightly faster than the RF72. I'm going
to test my RF73 tomorrow. I'm curious as to whether the smaller
RF3x drives are faster than the RF7x drives. Does anyone have any
benchmarks?
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/
Louis Schulman wrote:
> #I have come across an Osborne model OCC1 Serial # 134033. This unit has
the
> #300 baud modem. It also has 5 1/4 disk with it. (SuperCalc, WordStar,
> #Qbasic) The unit boots up and runs the software but after about 15 to
20
> #minutes it starts to overheat.(smoke)
> #My question is - What is the selling price for a unit like this and
where
> #would be the best place to sell it?
>
> Well, I have a related question. I have an '86 Dodge that runs fine for
10 or 15 minutes, but then the
> passenger compartment fills with smoke and flames shoot out of the grill.
>
> What is the blue book on an "86 Dodge with flames and smoke?
(Louis, that's *funny*!)
Uh, the blue book value is -$10,000 -- you'd have to pay me to take
possession of it.
I hate to tell this guy but I think the last thing most of us wants is
another insane computer . . .
Glen
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> them) or leaving them the way they are a) because if it works, don't
> screw with it, and b) it's a snapshot of my own context in the greater
> historical framework.
Personally I think the real issue here is that if it works don't mess with
it. So your soldering might be sloppy. Big deal.
Yes, I'm a big fan of if it works don't mess with it.
Zane
After Tony's suggestion that I test our faulty LK201s with a VT terminal, it
turned out that both worked fine with a VT420. So I thought I'd give our
LK401s a try as well. And it actually turned out that one worked! The other
still didn't. I opened them up and connected them to the VT, and after a
while, I noticed that a small (14 pins DIL?) Motrola IC called LC74750P was
much hotter on the faulty board. I established that the fault was on the PCB
by connecting the working one to the keyboard matrix of the faulty one. The
74750P was only pleasantly warm in the functioning keyboard, whereas it got as
hot as a Pentium processor after a while on the faulty PCB.
So I thought I just had to nip down to the shop and get some standard TTL (it
does begin with a 74...) chip and solder back (in a socket =). No such luck.
The clerk couldn't find the chip in store, in any catalogue or any databook.
He suggested that it might have been made as a batch only for DEC.
Does anyone know what kind of chip this might be, and if it's available
anywhere?
As for the LK401, the PCB contains three ICs:
1 ? 74750P (???)
1 ? i8051 (microcontroller, does this have some on-board ROM which prevents
drop-in replacement?)
1 ? AMTEL something or other. Could it be a ROM?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Die Malerei ist stumme Poesie, die Poesie blinde Malerei.
--- Leonardo da Vinci
On October 3, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> RD50 - ST506
> RD51 - ST412
> RD52 - Quantum 540?
Yes, Q540.
> RD53 - Micropolis 1335
> RD54 - Maxtor XT2190
> RD31 - ST225
> RD32 - ST241-1
Just a nit...the RD32 is an ST251...not a -1 model. The ST251 had
an average access time of 40ms (if memory serves) and the ST251-1 was
28.5ms. An easy performance upgrade for RD32-based systems is to
replace the DEC-badged Seagate ST251 with an ST251-1...the controller
won't know the difference...but the user will! :-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1280822959
I have been considering buying one of these machines as an investment.
While I am a computer programmer by trade, I have no clue how to operate
or program one of these things which really does not matter since I would
be buying it as an investment.
Any comments concerning what would be considered a "fair price" on
this machine would be appreciated. I seem to recall seeing one sell
on EBAY a few months ago for around 1800.00 but I don't think it had
a monitor and drives.
My guess (given the current economic situation) is that 1800.00 - 2200.00
might be sufficient to win the bid on this box.
Comments?
Might anyone have a copy of Superfile for DOS they can shoot over to me?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> You forget: when this was state of the art, the vast majority of users
> were just like Tony.
Well, the thing is, the message was on mobos long after it was state of the
art, which was my original point -- why was the message still there, when
the BASIC wasn't.
Also, *no one* is/was "just like Tony" :>) (Tony -- this is a compliment
;>)
Glen
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