Hello all,
Since I am rapidly exhausting all space in my basement workshop, I need to
move some of my computers to the loft above our garage. The problem is, the
garage is completely UNinsulated, and has only a metal roof (i.e., thin, and
NO resistance to temperature -- hot or cold).
My concern is that the cold of winter or the heat of summer might get to
them. I live in Massachusetts, so winter is not -40 degrees F, but we are
talking below freezing, and possibly below zero for short stretches. In the
summer, it must easily hit 100 degrees F in the loft, due to the hot metal
roof, and the trapped air (no windows!).
I'm not so worried about the circuit boards, but I am worried about floppy
drives, hard drives, and CRTs. Does anyone know if such temperatures will
kill these things? Obviously I would let the computer acclimate for about
24 hours after I move it back into my house, to avoid sudden temperature
swings, or condensation. I'm more worried about the storage affecting
them....
Thanks!
Rich B.
I'm trying to help a friend of a friend interface an Okidata 600e printer
with a Radio Shack Model 12 computer. Any idea if this is possible? He
claims to have created an interface cable, but it doesn't work.
Robert Matthews
Please contact Matt directly if you are interested in this system.
Kevan
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From: Mail <info(a)rothenberger.co.uk>
Subject: MAI Computer
Our company has in storage a MAI Basic 4 Information System,which I believe
to be complete and functioning. We have no use for this and would be
grateful if you could let me know whether this has any value and/or any
people or companies you know of who might be interested in making me an
offer.
Matt Maguire
Supply Chain Manager
(Rothenberger UK Ltd.)
My $10.00 (not including packing and shipping... Ouch!!!)
System 36-5363 arrived today!!
It is much bigger than I thought!
The case is built like a tank
How do I get it open???
I got the back cover off, no problem...
There is no obvious way in.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
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Michael L. Drew
Drew Technologies, Inc.
41 Enterprise Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Phone: (734) 623-8080
Fax: (734) 623-8082
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Hi,
I might purchase some VAX boards for a good price, which I need
to negotiate first and I need some help with finding out if I
can use those in a VAX 6000-400 and/or -600 (XMI, VAXBI) machine.
Here goes the list and following are specific questions
T1010 DWBUA VAXBI-UNIBUS adapter (BI side)
T1022/1023 DRB32, VAXBI-DRB adapter and DR11-W adapter
T1031 KFBTA (AIE) BI RD Drive Controller
T1060 VAX 9000 PEM Module
T2020 XMI/NI controller
T2022/2023 KDM70 XMI-SI adapter pair
T2027 DEMFA XMI-FDDI controller
T2028-AA XMI-LSB adapter
T2029-AB XMI-SCSI adapter
T2036-AA KFSMA, XMI-DSSI adapter
T2080-YA CIXCD-AC XMI-CI adapter (for AXP and VAX 7k/10k)
The intriguing thing about this pile is that it's relatively
unusual hardware. I don't have this stuff yet and I don't get
it for free. If you want any of it, chime in and tell me what
you'd spend. I could make a bundle order that can give yet a
better basis for negotiation.
Detail:
T1010 DWBUA VAXBI-UNIBUS adapter (BI side)
- what cab-kit assembly is needed, is this something extremely
hard to find? Can you give a model number for the cab-kit so
I might find it somewhere?
- I might want that because I plan to have a UNIBUS cabinet
besides a VAX 11/780 in the near future. I could kind of
swap the Unibus between the two machines. And I could use
the UNIBUS frame buffer set that I might also get sometime.
T1022/1023 DRB32, VAXBI-DRB adapter and DR11-W adapter
T1031 KFBTA (AIE) BI RD Drive Controller
- what the heck are DRB bus and what are the accessories needed
to do anything useful with it?
- and what are RD drives? Old junk? Are those available?
How are they connected to the KFBTA?
T1060 VAX 9000 PEM Module
- there is actually a bunch of other 9000 modules. Anything
useful to do with this in a VAX 6000's BI bus?
T2020 XMI/NI controller
- is this an XMI ethernet controller? Can it be used in
an 6400 XMI bus? 6600? or only a 7000 and 10000?
T2022/2023 KDM70 XMI-SI adapter pair
- SI bus? Is this yet another disk/tape storage bus? Availability
of disks? Old or new? This isn't the same as SBI (11/780) or
SDI (KDB50) right?
T2027 DEMFA XMI-FDDI controller
- This should work on a 6400 XMI bus, right?
T2028-AA XMI-LSB adapter
- Laser bus? That's the 10000's bus, right? I assume that
would require a whole LSB backplane, power, etc. etc.,
not feasible with a VAX 6000.
T2029-AB XMI-SCSI adapter
- Just checking: are these -AA, -AB, etc. suffixes anything
that can make or break 6400 XMI compatibility?
T2036-AA KFSMA, XMI-DSSI adapter
- dito -AA -AB, etc. any issues there?
T2080-YA CIXCD-AC XMI-CI adapter (for AXP and VAX 7k/10k)
- dito. This sounds like a cool alternative for a faster
CI link than through the BI bus.
Your comments on any or all of the above are appreciated.
And let me know if your heart is longing for anything of
it and how much you would pay. (I don't make a profit from
this, I'm trying to get a good price on a bulk order.)
thanks,
-Gunther
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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Sridhar,
I would be interested in those tech docs. Got a S/36 5363 sitting at my
office.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Absurdly Obtuse
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 5:55 PM
To: Michael L. Drew
Cc: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
Subject: Re: IBM S/36 5363 Question
Nice find! Want technical docs?
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michael L. Drew wrote:
> My $10.00 (not including packing and shipping... Ouch!!!)
> System 36-5363 arrived today!!
>
> It is much bigger than I thought!
>
> The case is built like a tank
>
> How do I get it open???
>
> I got the back cover off, no problem...
>
> There is no obvious way in.
>
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
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===
>
> Michael L. Drew
> Drew Technologies, Inc.
> 41 Enterprise Drive
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> Phone: (734) 623-8080
> Fax: (734) 623-8082
>
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===
>
>
>
The only ones i've seen are SK-net brand, of which I have two in my IBM
server 95s.
In a message dated 10/2/2001 10:17:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
vance(a)ikickass.org writes:
<< The problem with eBay though, is that many of the cards going through
there are SAS and unlabeled. That. and I've never seen an IBM FDDI/MC on
there.
Peace... Sridhar
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> on ebay :-)
>
> yes, I've seen them scroll through recently. Several of them.
>
> -Gunther >>
> Hmmm...are there EPROM's in it, or ROMs? I built a PC
> compatible with a bare board and stuffed the chips and
> soldered it when I was broke in college. The BIOS it
> came with wasn't very PC compatible. So (and I'm not
> making any excuses for this..) I wrote a program in
> disk based GW-BASIC (I actually BOUGHT it) that looked
> like it did something when in reality it was writing
> 2048K ROM images of the BIOS and BASIC ROMS of a real
> IBM PC to floppy. I took it to an IBM store (IBM had
> "stores" then) and told the salesman that I wanted to
> know if my program would really run on an IBM PC/XT. I
> ran it, it "worked", I said, "thank you very much",
> went to work, blew the EPROMS, stuffed 'em in my
> motherboard, and then, my PC, although it had a wooden
> case and a power supply shielded with Erector Set
> parts, was really, really, definitely IBM PC
> compatible!!
Brilliant move!
Glen
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> Hmmm...are there EPROM's in it, or ROMs? I built a PC
> compatible with a bare board and stuffed the chips and
> soldered it when I was broke in college. The BIOS it
> came with wasn't very PC compatible. So (and I'm not
> making any excuses for this..) I wrote a program in
> disk based GW-BASIC (I actually BOUGHT it) that looked
> like it did something when in reality it was writing
> 2048K ROM images of the BIOS and BASIC ROMS of a real
> IBM PC to floppy. I took it to an IBM store (IBM had
> "stores" then) and told the salesman that I wanted to
> know if my program would really run on an IBM PC/XT. I
> ran it, it "worked", I said, "thank you very much",
> went to work, blew the EPROMS, stuffed 'em in my
> motherboard, and then, my PC, although it had a wooden
> case and a power supply shielded with Erector Set
> parts, was really, really, definitely IBM PC
> compatible!!
Brilliant move!
Glen
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Jan Koller wrote:
> Glen,
>> Why not display something understandable to a common user, such
>> as "no bootable device?"
> The same common user that needs their ports both labeled and color coded?
Jan --
Yes, the same user. Most of them know what "boot" means, whereas ROM and
BASIC are completely foreign to them.
Glen
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