test-drb December 2001

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by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> Well, if you tell us what you're looking for, we might just > find it. Docs & prints would be nice :-) Must be one of the few major machines for which virtually nothing seems to be available on the net! Antonio

22 years, 9 months

Anyone want a 386/33?

by vcf＠vintage.org

Here's a guy in Minneapolis with a 386/33 to unload. Please reply directly to him. Reply-to: <joel_muscatello(a)securecomputing.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:15:04 -0600 From: "Muscatello, Joel" <joel_muscatello(a)securecomputing.com> To: 'Vintage Computer Festival' <vcf(a)vintage.org> Subject: RE: Any need for a 386 computer? Hello. Thanks for your reply. I am located in Minneapolis, MN. I would appreciate any help you could give me in finding a way to get rid of the machine. :-) Joel -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

22 years, 9 months

VAX 6400 booting saga: how to transfer binaries to VMS with k ermit?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> > %STDRV-I-STARTUP, OpenVMS startup begun at 10-DEC-2001 22:56:23.89 > %SYSGEN-E-SYSVERDIF, system version mismatch - reassemble and > relink driver > -SYSGEN-I-DRIVENAM, driver name is SIDRIVER > %SYSGEN-E-SYSVERDIF, system version mismatch - reassemble and > relink driver > -SYSGEN-I-DRIVENAM, driver name is SIDRIVER > > this driver version mismatch prevents me from doing a SYSGEN > etc. Where can I turn off dependency to this driver? That's the driver for the DMB32. To hide it from SYSGEN it just needs to be renamed: $ RENAME SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]SIDRIVER.EXE SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]SIDRIVER.OLD But just in case, it might be worth checking that you don't have more than one version lying around: $ DIR SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES:SIDRIVER.EXE Normally I would suggest purging down if multiple files are kicking around, but since this system is all you have, I'd go with renaming all of them and keeping the version numbers the same i.e. $ RENAME SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]SIDRIVER.EXE;33 SYS$COMMON:[SYS$LDR]SIDRIVER.OLD;33 or whatever. The other WAN device drivers you won't care about are SJDRIVER, SLDRIVER, SFDRIVER, SEDRIVER, ZTDRIVER and ZWDRIVER ... actually I'm sure there are more, I've just mislaid my list! If SIDRIVER is out of date I guess that the rest will be too. However, I assume that SIDRIVER is getting dragged in because SYSGEN found a DMB32? Antonio

22 years, 9 months

Rescue list?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 10, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > I tried it for a few hours, but found the message load to be too much for > my tastes. Think about getting a classiccmp day every *hour*. Or maybe > that was the geeks list. I don't remember. It certainly spikes that high, but it's not usually that bad. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

22 years, 9 months

Happy DEC-10 Day!

by CordaAJ＠nswc.navy.mil

Happy DEC-10 Day to all that remember the venerable olde beaste! Some of my happiest memories of college (WPI) involved hacking on the poor thing back in `73-`77... -al- -acorda(a)1bigred.com

22 years, 9 months

Smoking around computers

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I have noticed > that machines with either residue (pot or cigs) don't tend to > have mice live > in them when sotred - I tried this by putting a bag of > tobacco (cloth bag) > inside and purposely left a filler plate off - no mice. The > machine without > had all sorts of acorn shells, poop, nesting materials, etc though. Great tip, thanks, the old IBM 716 Line Printer was *full* of that; had I known I could stick a pack of Viceroys in there to cure it, I might not have dismantled it... -dq

22 years, 9 months

I've discovered a new pleasure.

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> On December 10, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote: > > I've discovered a new simple pleasure. Sitting in my storage locker with > > a space heater and my IBM Portable Personal Computer (thanks again, Jeff) > > programming in BASIC in the middle of the night. Ahhh. > > Uhhhh > > Sridhar, you ok man? > > -Dave Good question, comments like that are scarry :^) Especially since it reveals that he's got a storage locker that isn't completely full :^) Zane

22 years, 9 months

I've discovered a new pleasure.

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 10, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote: > I've discovered a new simple pleasure. Sitting in my storage locker with > a space heater and my IBM Portable Personal Computer (thanks again, Jeff) > programming in BASIC in the middle of the night. Ahhh. Uhhhh Sridhar, you ok man? -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL

22 years, 9 months

Free DEC stuff in Milpitas CA

by bob＠jfcl.com

I have the following mostly (but not all) DEC stuff to give away FREE. All you have to do is pick it up in Milpitas CA (next door to San Jose). * A VAXstation-2000. No disks (you'll need to find an RD5x/3x for it). No guarantees of condition, either, but then it is free :-) * A VAXstation-3100/30. No disks (but you can use almost any SCSI drive). No guarantees of condition, either, but then it is free :-) * A Sophia Systems SA-2000 8-bit ICE. This is a self contained CP/M machine from the early 80s in a "luggable" case something like the KayPro or Osborne. Includes SA-DOS boot diskettes but no pods (it boots and runs just fine with out them). * A DECmate-II RX50 system (no hard disk) WITHOUT the 6120 CPU chip. System unit only - no monitor or keyboard. * About half a dozen DEC orange binders (empty). * A MicroVMS (VMS v4.x) manual set, in orange binders. * Most of an OpenVMS v7.x manual set (perfect bound). * A padded, sound proof printer enclosure for a 14" dot matrix printer, including a fan. I only read this list in digest form, and I'm way behind on that, so please write to me directly if you're interested in anything. Bob

22 years, 9 months

Several Apollo computers for free - Raleigh, NC

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> **I WILL NOT SHIP THESE ITEMS.** Sorry; they're just too > heavy and bulky > for me to package and ship; I just have too much else going > on right now. > With everything going on, I STRONGLY prefer someone take > everything. I will > not be able to take the time to go through any of this and > pick out parts > that people want. If someone fairly close to Raleigh is on the list, doesn't lust for these, and is wiling to give me a hand, I'd like to get as least the docs, or see them go to someone who can and will get them scanned fairly soon, I'm a bit in the dark running my Apollos (the FAQ helps as does some other info on the web). I would not mind seeing the entire haul in my hands but I've got 3 systems of similar vintage, so I don't want to be a pig. Anyone near him? -dq

22 years, 9 months

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