When I saw the message header, I thought that it referred to Carter Air
Force Base, and, looking at the +20K length, I was sure that someone had
discovered a long-forgotten warehouse stuffed full of classic Big Iron
>from times gone by...
But, LOL! Carburetors!
OT: From my street-racing days: the Javelin was not a bad little ride,
properly set up, and I drove a few of them competitively. Holleys were
always my first carb choice, Carters being 'okay' jugs, and then there
Rochesters... yuck, poo!
Cheers
John
A while back there was some HP-UX media that someone ran across, and
someone was going to sort it out, and distribute. What ever happened
with that? I'm still interested.
--
Tim Harrison
Network Engineer
harrison(a)timharrison.com
http://www.networklevel.com/
In a message dated 3/18/01 9:07:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, ip500(a)home.com
writes:
<< Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM
3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with
its
cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of
the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external
1.5
HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs,
the whole assembly seems about 1/2 the size of a V-6 auto eng!
IBM site has several references to them, circa early 80's I gather
but they sure look older than that. What I'd like to find is IBM
publication #GC26-4491 [IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Intro] and/or IBM
pub #GX26-1678 [Storage Reference Summary]. Neither seems to be in the
on-line library from IBM.
Any other info or dating is always welcome too.
Thanks, Craig
>>
yup, those things are quite impressive when you open the access doors and
quite noisy with multiple units running. Place I worked at back in 1992 had 4
strings of those which were eventually replaced by one hitachi unit. Capacity
was up to 4gig IIRC.
--
DB Young Team OS/2
old computers, hot rod pinto and more at:
www.nothingtodo.org
Hi
I have been trying to get a IIgs working with a Amiga/Commodore 1080. This
should be a simple hookup...108x and derivatives support around 15.75khz
scan rates and should work in analog RGB mode selection...
It's not working. I see the composite sync squashed with a scope when
hooked
up to the monitor. Also the color signals are hit. Nothing on the screen. I
see the video for a split second when switching from digital to rgb on the
commdore monitor, its outta sync but you can see for a fraction of a second,
so video signals are making it through...
I tried also a 1084 and a 1902 with no success...I have checked the pinouts
>from several sources for both monitor and IIgs and they all match...RGB
analog on the 198x series db9 connector...2,3,4...R,G,B and 7 composite
sync...1&2 ground...simple enough no?
I have tried long/short shielded and unshielded cables with no success. The
IIgs RGB output is fine and works perfect with the original IIgs RGB
monitor and cable...
Anybody ever do this and have these problems...??? Or an idea?
Thanks for reading
Claude
I have a TU45 I need to get working again. It doesn't load tapes.
It might be roached, or it might just be out of adjustment.
I will trade things for it if I happen to have something you want.
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:02:26 -0500
From: "Claude.W" <claudew(a)videotron.ca>
Subject: Flea Market finds...: VAX 5000/200 point me to a faq please...
Vax Station 5000/200 with 32Megs (?) $5
Can someone tell me more about the VAX? I know nothing about these
things.
Either point me to a good faq or a manual or just tell me how to check
this
thing out...I searched the net and after 20 minutes found close to
nothing
about this thing...the compaq site is a maze....
Unit powers on PS fans (3!) spin. Small leds in back (6?) near ports seem
to
cycle through in a "logical and non erratic way" at start up...
There are 4 large memory boards. Counting the chips I suspect these
boards
hold 8 Megs each...4 boards...32Megs...built in ethernet from what I can
see...
Slot -0- in back does not have a cover anymore. There is nothing
there...I
suspect this held a video card (?) can I still hook this up headless to a
terminal?
I connected my trusty Wyse60 to this and after a short "POST" I get...:
?IO 5/rzl/vmunix (bb rd)
>>
Returns bring more >> prompts so I am talking to the box...So I guess it
works...
The thing has no floppy or keyboard connector...Just a SCSI port....how
does
it boot? -- from scsi cdrom? (linux something to try on this I
suspect...?)
Sorry about the questions but I know nothing about these VAX boxes...
Thanks for the help
Claude
claudew(a)videotron.ca
Claude,
this is from memory so I'll put percentages of reliability next to each
statement-
1- These machines were designed to run Ultrix (A flavor of UNIX sold by
DEC) and
will not run VMS (100%)
2- I think they're MIPS-based machines (80%)
3- There might be a BSD for them (30%)
If you really need come up short I've got Digital Systems & Options
catalogs back to
1993 and can get you some information about options but not detailed
config/setup stuff.
WWWebb
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I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded
Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I dug out a serial
cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two computers up. What
could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I see lights on
the cards, but nothing on the screen.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
