I second that :)
At 04:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Curt Vendel wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Arrangements are set for me to drive down Sunday to pick up the
> equipment, I
> > will start working on the list of who has asked for what and post it
> here in the
> > mailinglist, the stuff is getting spoken for quickly, up to about 15
> people have
> > asked for 1 workstation each, a few asked for 2. I will post where
> we are at
> > sometime late tonight.
> >
> >
> > Curt
>
>Hi Curt,
>
>Is it too late for me to put in a request for a workstation?
>
>Thanks,
>
>greg
>
>Gregory Travis
>Cornerstone Information Systems ATS
>greg(a)ciswired.com
>812 330 4361 ext. 18
Hi,
I just got a dual 200MHz pentium pro with 128Megs single board computer
+ 14-slot PCI/ISA passive backplane.
The backplane is about the size of an average ATX motherboard, so it can
fit in an ATX chassis, but then I cant use all
the slots. Does anyone know where I can get a 14-slot chassis really
cheap??
Ram
PS: if you are asking how the hell I can going to use 14 isa/pci slots
on a computer, blame it on my transputer cards :-)
This weekend, along with a batch of PS/2s, I received a 3Com 3c588 1988
vintage MultiConnect Repeater. It's a 19" case with space for sixteen cards.
Mine features one card indicating power with a green LED as well as a DB-9
female connector, then fourteen cards equipped with a BNC connector, an
activity led, one partition LED and a partition/reset switch each.
Whenever a card is connected to a 10b2 network, the partition light (which
otherwise emits a steady red light) begins to flicker. Upon flicking the
switch into reset mode, the partition light goes out. The network works fine
as long as there is no partitioning. I suppose its purpose is to not leak
traffic between several networks.
But there still are some things I'd like to find out.
What is the purpose of the DB-9 connector?
Could this repeater slow a network down?
What does partitioning actually entail?
Does anyone have any other cards for this beast? I know there are 10bT cards
as well.
--
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gli hanno messo sotto la base sbagliata!!!
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>Hmmm... Again, there's the dangerous telephone wires, plug that in
>place of properly wired apple wire for keyboard. POW! Goes the
>keyboard microcontroller. That's another fatal design thanks to
>apple for using telephone jacks instead of some kind of connectors.
They weren't the only manufacturer to use that type of connector for the
keyboard though. I'm not saying it was a good design, but it was a
connector that was small and readily available. The Atari ST, Amiga 1000,
Coleco Adam, and I believe the IBM 5155, as well as plenty of serial
terminals, used the same type of connector for the keyboard. My main
complaint about that connector is that it is so frail. Not everyone enjoys
cutting off the broken connector and wiring a new one back on! <g>
Jeff
If the BIOS type can be identified, that will be a great help in knowing to
how access the configuration utility; AMI is pressing delete during memory
count, award is control+alt+F10, and so forth.
In a message dated 3/26/01 3:07:18 PM Central Standard Time, edick(a)idcomm.com
writes:
<< I hope you've tried the obvious, e.g. <F1> or <DEL> during the POST
sequence to
enter BIOS setup? The earliest PC/AT's used a setup diskette to do the
setup of
the CMOS-based parameters. That may prove to be a problem.
To start out, I'd leave the "turbo" switch alone. However, there's usually a
Turbo indicator LED that will tell you when you're in TURBO mode. If
there's no
TURBO button, there's probably a jumper connection available somewhere, and
these connections are normally located in the lower left region of the board
(assuming the power and keyboard connections are at the upper right, for
reference. When you say "not available" do you mean you don't have one, or
that
it's not present/supported on the motherboard?
I'm curious about one thing ... Why is it that you believe it to be operable
at
12 MHz? Is the CPU marked as such? Can you tell anything about the support
chip set? I vaguely remember something about a Morse '286 around here
someplace. It's possible that there's a manual, but more likely it's a board
that was hying about. I may not have it anymore, but you never know ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Premke" <mapr0003(a)stud.uni-sb.de>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: i286-Mainboard
>
> Hi, I have a 'Morse Technologies KP 286HF' mainboard with
> an AMD-Processor - the board works, but I don't have the slightest
> idea about the jumper settings ... I put 4 MB in it, but it only
> recognizes 640Kb and I assume, that for clocking it to 12Mhz the
> (not available) Turbo-Button should be pressed ?!?
> For any hints or links to manuals I would be very glad ...
> Cheers,
> Mario
> >>
A friend of mine who knows I highly desired a Grid computer in my collection
just dropped off some black peripherals he picked up at a yard sale, to my delight.
There's a 3.5 and a 5.25 ext fdd, and an ext CDROM, all with cables, an Extended
Duty Battery Pack, and 2 60 Watt Power supplies (used in1200,1307, 1500, and
3403 models it says). The CD cables have 50 pin (3rows) connectors. Was this some
sort of SCSI or a common HD connecter for Grid ? What models would these likely
work with ?
larry
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)look.ca
[Sorry about the last post with HTML turned on - I know that some of the
most helpful people on this list probably would not even read that post, so
I am putting it up again]
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I was amazed to find a local classified ad for a Hero Jr in the Saturday
morning paper and soon after I was owner of a very clean Robot for a few
dollars (about time I had that sort of luck). Unused for many years but just
some cobwebs inside, no corrosion. No charger or remote control or
cartridges or documentation unfortunately, but there is lot of technical
info on the web I have found today.
The old battery will not take a charge using my car [translation - auto]
battery "trickle" charger, so I'll have to wait 'till next week to buy a new
12V 3.5A sealed lead/acid battery - that's how this Australian model was
powered - not like the 6V batteries described on the web pages for the Hero
Jr. And I don't have a 12V PSU to power it up with in the meantime. Am I
using an appropriate re-charging device? And could I use the trickle charger
itself as the PSU for testing? A multimeter reads about 13V across the
terminals when it is powered up, but with my minimal electrical knowledge I
do not dare try something that could be fatal to the Hero.
None of the Web pages mentioned how much this thing cost new (Feb 85
manufacture date I suspect by a sticker on board inside) and I am curious
about that.
If anyone has any warnings or "gotcha's" about working with this thing, I'd
be glad to hear from you. Other than that, I can't wait - from the info on
the web it sounds great fun. And it goes to show, however rare or unusual
the item is - eventually one of them turns up here in Brisbane, Australia.
Phil
I've just returned from the annual ZX-TEAM meeting in Dietges, Germany, and I
must say this 90-member international users group is doing some astounding
things. I saw lots of ZX81s with full-sized LCD displays, AT keyboards, hard
drives, floppy drives, scanners, modems, and 1 MB memory expansions. Some
folks were using ZX81s to control RC devices (such as robots), and CNC
machine tools. The TEAM now has a 24-hour dial-up BBS, running on a ZX81.
Also demonstrated was a nifty C compiler which runs on Windows-based machines
and which produces compiled ZX81 code. All in all it was pretty
mind-boggling, and well worth the time and money I spent to attend the
meeting.
Last year on this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted "least expandable". Now, I
don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
the "least expandable" category????
Glen
0/0
Curt, I'm in for a turbo station if possible.
>Just a thought, but does anyone on the list have the OS for these
>beasties? I just checked and NetBSD isn't quite ready for prime time on
>them yet, and neither is Linux unfortunately...
>- -Linc Fessenden
It may be already on some or all of the stations' hard drives, Curt
will have to tell us when he gets them set up.
I have a CD of NextStep 3.3 Prerelease 1 (seems functionally
identical to NS 3.3, YMMV but it's what I'm using on my Cube) and one of NS
3.3 Developer. I also have patch 2 on CD (for User/Dev) (patch 1 is
included in patch 2) and User patch 3 as a compressed installer file. I
also have an image of a floppy which can be used to kick-start a CD boot,
for machines that don't do that automatically (non-turbo stations?).
I can make and ship copies of the boot floppy, though my supply of
the nice ED floppies is limited.
I have a CD burner, but a) have not tried duplicating the CD's b)
Don't much want to hear what Apple would think legally about my doing so.
Since Apple gave away copies of this software in 1999, I'd expect
little difficulty from them if I "restored and upgraded" hard drives to the
current NS3.3 User/Dev + patches configuration that the machines want to
run. (Calling all Apple lawyers, please let me know if you disagree!)
The included hard drives, if they are the base 406Meg
configuration, are very tight with everything loaded. If you plan to
actively use the system, or to install much of the wonderful freeware on
ftp.peak.org (I especially recommend the Lighthouse Apps), you will
probably want a bigger drive.
What I suggest is:
1) You get the station, try it out, make sure it runs and you like it.
2) You buy and ship me a hard drive (maybe 1-2 Gig? or the original 406 Meg,
or an external) that fits in the machine,
plus a check for the cost of shipping it back to you.
3) I initialize and build NS3.3 (Pr1) User, NS3.3 Dev, and patches 2 and 3
on your hard drive by plugging it into my Cube temporarily and
building
from CD's (so you get a clean install) and copy Patch 3 over from
my OD and run on your hard drive (so it's tested and patched to
patch 3).
4) I repack your hard drive and ship it back to you, ready to boot.
5) You replace the drive in your station with the new one, or if it's external
just plug it in and boot from it.
If 25 hard drives arrive in the mail the same day, I'll build them
on a "time available" basis, so please don't be in too much of a hurry.
Notes:
1) Anyone with a full release version of NS 3.3 might be better as a source.
2) Rob Blessin, at http://206.67.57.106, does a similar deal for a living
(look on the Black Hardware page and scroll down to Storage) can do it
faster, and already has the (2.1 Gig Seagate Barracuda) hard drive ready to
go. He's also got OpenStep 4.2, which I don't.
Comments or suggestions welcome. I'm in digest mode, so response to
list mail will take until I have digested it ;-).
- Mark
Trying to add ethernet to my 11/83 (BA23). Anyone
have this cab kit lying about? This would be the mounting
plate with cable-to-card.
Have enough DEC stuff here, might be able to work a trade.
thanks ............. nick oliviero
