Well, the motherboard, mono card, floppy card, & JRAM just came out of the
dishwasher. Sparkling clean (no soap or rinse agents!) and hanging up to
dry in the basement for a while. The relay for the cassette has a little
condensation inside it, but I'm not too concerned-- worse case I'll pop the
plastic cap off. I used hot water, as this thing was filthy. The case is
in now, and the cover to follow after that. I think I might use a little
soap on the cover-- it's that bad. I left out the AMD harddrive controller
and Hayes modem, due to paper ROM stickers & a real honest-to-god paper
coned speaker respectively.
I won't be able to try it out until I find a clock generator for it, but I
figure I have a week or so to do that in anyway.
Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> "Mounting bracket"? Does anyone have a spare? I figure I'll have to
I think the proper VAXish term is 'skid.'
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
You wrote:
>! From: Chris Kennedy [mailto:chris@mainecoon.com]
>!
>!
>! David Woyciesjes wrote:
>!
>! > How big is this thing? And no ideas as to what it is?
>!
>! It's a Pyramid SMP Unix box from around '96. Runs Simix, a
>! SVR4-derived Unix. Typically used as big-ass (as in
>! terabyte range) database servers.
>!
>! There may be a Linux port for the architecture, but
>! I'm too lazy to check.
>!
>! Size clearly depends on configuration, but "not small"
>! would be a good guess.
>!
>! Anyone know where this jewel is located?
Dallas. :( That's too far from Ohio for me. Altho, if anyone wants to
deliver it, I'll happily accept it...
Bob
Well, speak of the devil... and all that. After mentioning yesterday that a
Power Series machine would be nice to have, I found that somebody brought
one home for me. (seriously...)
So before I get started here, let me also mention that it would be nice to
have:
A Symbolics Lisp Machine
A Next Dimension Cube
A PDP-11 in a small rack with blinkenlights and core
... enough of that, though. :)
So, I now am the proud owner of a Power Series VGX machine. It seems to
have 4 40Mhz CPUs in it, a full compliment of graphics boards, FDDI, and
some extra video I/O boards.
It's a deskside type machine, the whole thing fitting in one very large
tower --err... coffee-table :)
Firstly, this machine is in need of:
The plastic "skirt" piece for the right side of the chassis.
The plastic back plate.
The power-cable.
Keyboard, monitor, mouse (all of which I can probably get locally...
(that's it.. I think I have the entire machine otherwise)
Does anyone know where I can get these, or (in the case of the power-cord,
for instance) parts to make them?
Any warnings/information/antic dotes for these machines?
I do intend to use the thing. I also intend to use it at home. It appears
to require 20 Amp service, though, and I have no good 20 Amp outlet within
reach. I do have some 20 Amp and a couple 30 Amp fuses (Yes, fuses. I
intend to replace the one I hook this to with a mini-breaker) in the box,
which I intend to trace before I decide where to plug it in. It may be that
I'll contract somebody to run a 20 Amp outlet for this machine. (Never
having done AC wiring work on my own, I feel that I don't want to start by
wiring an outlet for this beast) Otherwise, the plan will be to plug it
into a circuit with a highly rated fuse on it, and unplug everything else.
Any holes in this plan? The breaker on the power-supply is rated 16 Amps,
btw. I have no idea how much pull to expect from a monitor -- anyone know
whether I can safely use both on the same circuit? That would simplify
things.
I believe a best option is to have somebody run a line up from the
washer/dryer hookups in the basement. Those are hooked to 30-amp fuses
already and have cutoff switches. As long as nobody does laundry while the
machine's running, then, it would be fine. :)
Lastly, even before I get this thing plugged in, I'd like to inventory it,
and check it for health. What should I look for?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
---- On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Eric Dittman
(dittman(a)dittman.net) wrote:
> Today I found the following:
>
> 1) IBM PS/2 P70 Portable with Xenix386
loaded. Does anyone know
> how to bypass the root password so I can
log in?
>
> 2) A DEC BC56H SCSI cable. I have
enough, but since this is a
> little hard to find, I bought it to pass
on to anyone on the list
> that needs it.
>
> 3) An Apple board with part number
077-0219-A. This has two
> 9-pin connectors, one labeled "TO MOUSE
UNIT" and the other
> labeled "TO MOUSE CONN.". There's a
25-pin connector labeled
> "TO SCSI CONN.". The date on the board is
1985. Since the
> board only cost $1, I figured I'd better
grab it before it
> was tossed.
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman(a)dittman.net
> Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at
http://www.dittman.net/
One thing that may work is build a Linux box
with the support for the Xenix/SysV file
system and try to mount the drive from there
and edit out the password in the password
file.
I've done that before with other Unix
systems...
Bill
--
Bill Pechter
Systems Administrator
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732-335-5432 (Work)
877-661-2126 (Fax)
Hey, all.
I posted some questions about VMS a couple of weeks ago, got some good
answers, mostly "where to start" and have been scratching up for a copy
to go on my VS3100. I have Alpha OpenVMS, but it seems more "fitting" on
the little VAX.
A couple of weeks ago I picked up an SZ12 drive enclosure with a pair
of RZ56 drives in it for $22 incl. shipping. I just powered it up, tried
booting the vaxstation off the first disk, and I'm looking at the login
prompt on a v5.2 VAX/VMS system. OK, now I'm looking at the command
prompt. The SYSTEM password was "system".
TeeHee.
The guy I bought this from says he has its twin. I'm mailing a money
order tomorrow.
Happy Solstice,
Doc
I don't think I'm going to be able to repair the clock generator from my IBM
PC (twisted off gnd & rst in a fit of stupidity), but I don't know where to
look for another one-- mouser and digikey are all that comes to mind. (Is
this an 8284a, or an 8284?)
Also, the wife's going to work tomorrow, I'll run the boards thru the
dishwasher and tell ya what happens!
ja ne
Bob
>Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>:
>
>> what is the faster CPU -- A 6502 or Z80 style processor like
>> the rabbit.
Depends...
For the same instruction execution rate (ignores clocks and cycles)
the z80 is likely faster. However... if you have a 20mhz 6502 and
a 10mhz z80 it gets muddier with the 6502 being the faster. And
if you know one better than the other you can certainly exploit it
all the more. In the end it's not which one does a task faster, it's
what one you can code the task for faster.
Sorta like asking apples or oranges.
Allison
