test-drb December 2001

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by kees.stravers＠iae.nl

On 2001-12-31 classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org said >> > Did Ultrix 4.4 Run on Vaxstation 3100's... I have here a VAXstation M38 which has Ultrix 4.5 running on it, the last available version. Ultrix only supports the older VAXstations. The SPX card is not supported, but the GPX is, so I'm seeing the GUI on the big monitor. Ultrix 4.5 is not Y2K compatible, but there are fixes. >> > I'd love to have one disk with Ultrix and another with VMS on >> >it. >> So say we all.... From a more-than-casual search of usenet >>archives and the web, I'd have to call Ultrix the Holy Grail of >>Vaxstations. If there is such a creature, and anyone posesses it, >>they neither admit it nor share it. The problem is that Ultrix/VAX is still copyrighted and can not be freely redistributed like Ultrix/PDP can, so sharing Ultrix/VAX is still a problem. >I think the main question is who could get Compaq to release the >license for non-commercial use. This would require both them and >Caldera (who owns the former-AT&T part of the license. Fred van Kempen, who revived the PDP-11 version of Ultrix and got a kind of shareware licence for it, is working on getting Ultrix/VAX licenced this way too, but that will take some time, as it is hard to find the right people who can decide on this matter. You can download the revived Ultrix-11 3.1 from www.tuhs.org, once you agree to the ancient unix licence as explained there. You should subscribe to the tuhs (The Unix Heritage Society) mailing list for news on any developments. Kees -- kees.stravers(a)iae.nl http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/ http://vaxarchive.sevensages.org http://vaxarchive.khubla.com Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered

22 years, 12 months

Apple 2gs boards, what are they?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 12/30/2001 10:27:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, owad(a)applefritter.com writes: << >There others I'm not sure what they are. The first is labeled as >"Quickie Controller" "Vitesse Inc." "P/N 121489" There is a cable >that goes to one of those round plugs like the the serial and printer >plugs on the IIgs. What's the official name of those connectors? That's the controller card for Vitesse's Quickie Hand Scanner. The connector is a mini Din-8. >> ADB cables, or the same as Svideo?

22 years, 12 months

Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

A buddy of mine needs a couple of 2Gb 1" SCSI drives. I have both Quantum XP32150s and ST32550Ns available. Are these drives essentially equivalent, or is one better than the other? -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com

22 years, 12 months

International Extensions

by vze2mnvr＠verizon.net

All right, I've got one for the international users ... Can anyone fill in or add to any of the international extensions you sometimes see on URL's ? The ones I'm aware of ( but still have some blanks in ) so far are ... .ca - Canada .ch - .cn - .de - Germany .es - Spain .fm - .fr - France .ge - Georgia, former USSR .hk - Hong Kong ??? .is - Iceland .it - Italy .jp - Japan .kr - Korea .nl - Netherlands .nu - .pl - Poland ??? .ru - Rumania ??? .se - Sweden .uk - Great Britain

22 years, 12 months

Tape drive needed

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 29, Chad Fernandez wrote: > The other day I found a SCO Open Desktop 2.0.0 media kit, on Qic24 > tape. I don't have the correct drive...... I don't have any tape drive > experience, actually. > > Does anybody have an unneeded Qic24 SCSI tape drive? I checked Ebay and > I didn't see anything that I thought was what I needed. This is going back into a very fuzzy memory...but does anyone know if an Archive 2150S drive (QIC-150) will read QIC-24 tapes? Those drives are pretty common, and they're standard SCSI so they don't require less common interface hardware. And, I think I have one. :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 12 months

Apple 2gs boards, what are they?

by dlw＠trailingedge.com

Picked up some Apple IIgs boards yesterday and I need some help with them. First is a Q-RAM GS memory board. This looks like it has 4 meg on it and the only thing here I'd like to know is what the 2 switches are for and what sizes of simms will it support. Any doc would be helpful. There others I'm not sure what they are. The first is labeled as "Quickie Controller" "Vitesse Inc." "P/N 121489" There is a cable that goes to one of those round plugs like the the serial and printer plugs on the IIgs. What's the official name of those connectors? The other is from Apple but I don't know what it is. It has a cable off the back to a 25 pin connector. On the board is "Apple Computer 820-0153-A" Over one set of chips it says something about "sandwich II". I don't know any of the chips on it (never was great at IDing more than a handful of chips). Could post pics if it would help. Anyone know anything on any of these boards? 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

22 years, 12 months

Seagate MFM drives available

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I got a bunch of functioning seagate MFM drives available. ST-225,238 and 251 models as well as some big FH models. All survived a LLF too. Controller cables also if you need them. Email if interested.

22 years, 12 months

NEXT Color Printer find

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>I've heard of those too, and was thinking about getting one for some of the >older macs I had, before I decided to get rid of 'em. IIRC they weren't the >most elegant of things, and drivers were a problem. I've used the Asante ones without a hitch for years. No driver problems at all. You just need the Asante driver (last I knew, it was still available on their web site, just burried). The driver hasn't given me any problems up thru OS 7.6.1. I don't know about OS 8+, but any Macs that can use OS 8 have an alternate means in which ethernet can be added. I have used the "Mini" which is the one that needs SCSI Bus power (and so can't work with a Mac Plus), and I have used the "Micro" which is the one that has the HDI-30 connector and is designed for powerbooks. The only problem I have ever had with these is when I dropped one off a desk, it stopped working. Other than that, there was a minor config problem in using one with IPNetRouter, but that was a known issue with IPNR, and IIRC, was actually a problem with IPNR and not with the Asante Driver (they work fine with IPNR, it just needs to be on the local network side, and not the internet side of a dual ethernet firewall/nat setup). I am hoping to lay my hands on a "desktop" version shortly, so I can use one with my Mac Plus (the "desktop" version has an external powersupply and doesn't need the scsi bus power to run the device). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 12 months

Trailing-edge compute farm seeks gainful employment

by Golemancd＠aol.com

what kind a processors r those that u have u say mips

22 years, 12 months

Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Would they call common network connectors "8 pin RJ-11"? >Or would they call them "8 pin telephone connectors"? Neither, 8 pin RJ's are an RJ-45 (11 is a 4 pin, comes in either standard or handset sizes... can also have just 2 pins for "cheap" cords... 12 is a 6 pin, same physical size as a standard RJ-11) Ok, now you can hit me for being a wise ass ("not in the face, not in the face" -Arthur "The Tick") -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 12 months

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test-drb December 2001