test-drb April 2001

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by timjarrett＠mcmurdo.co.uk

Does anyone have a technical / service manual for a Stag PP39 Eprom Programmer ? I have tried Stag but they were very unhelpful. Any info would be greatly received Thanks Tim Jarrett

23 years, 8 months

Available for pickup: Kennedy 9400 vac column 9 track

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

Hello Everyone, My space has undergone some sudden compression and I need to let go some of the things I don't use in my collection. One of the things on that list is a Kennedy 9400 vacuum column 9-track tape drive. It worked when it was decommissioned however in storage the glass cover plates in the vacuum columns have slid down a bit making them no longer air tight. A heat gun to loosen the adhesive and readjust these should make it right as rain again. It is in a rack (DEC corporate type, not an H960) and its in Sunnyvale CA. If you're interested in it let me know. It was, in its day, the Cadillac of tape drives. --Chuck McManis

23 years, 8 months

Commodore 386 LT power adapter

by lgwalker＠look.ca

I picked up a Commodore 386 laptop without a power adapter. A nicely designed little box except for the !#%$%^^$ proprietory adapter connection. It's like a Mac 8-pin minisub mounted upside down. Anyone know the pinouts for this ? Amazingly little info on these boxes (286/386)on the net. Like many LTs it is 16v with a 12v battery. 3 of the pins are tied to ground and one seems to go to the battery. Anything similiar on the Amiga ? larry Reply to: lgwalker(a)look.ca

23 years, 8 months

Computers for swap or sell

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Hi, I have some extra systems, see if there's anything that you like! 1.Apple IIc with monitor (small green screen) 2.Apple IIc Plus 3.Apple III with Monitor III 4.Macintosh Portable (model 5120) 5.TI-99/4A (black/silver) 6.TI Peripheral Expansion Box (PEB) 7.HP-110 8.Timex Sinclair 1000 with 16K memory pack 9.Kaypro II 10.Several Commodore 64 computers (non-working) 11.Several Commodore 1541 floppy drives (working) 12.Amiga 500 13.Amiga 1000 14.Amiga 2000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

23 years, 8 months

Thanks, Tony! (Duell)

by Marion.Bates＠dartmouth.edu

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23 years, 8 months

Mac IIfx

by witchy＠vorbis.demon.co.uk

Hi folks, I'm slightly happy in that I got my paws on the above machine today, complete with a CD, MacinStore hard drive and Magneto-Optical drive. What I'm not slightly happy about is that I discovered later on that because the SCSI on the IIfx is 3 times quicker than the SCSI on other MacIIs I need the special 'black' terminator to make it all work. I remember the terminator being in a box of cables but because I didn't know it was necessary I didn't pick it up and the chances of it being there next week are slim. Begging time - anyone got a spare? :) Also, I picked up another Sanyo MBC555 just to get the RGB monitor - Sellam's mentioned (with just a hint of irony :) that the MBC is one of this list's 'favourite' machines so I take it that it's not well liked here? If so why not? cheers! adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum (as featured in Computer Weekly) 0:OK, 0:1

23 years, 8 months

Booting an older RS6000 off cdrom

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Apr 24, 21:49, Enrico Badella wrote: > I tried all the cd players I had Matshita, Pioneer, Sony (ex Sun) > and even IBM. All on SCSI ID 6 512 bytes/sector none ever worked > except the Toshiba I pulled out of a RS6000 7013/59H. With this I > installed 4.2.1 then maye a mksysb tape. > > I could never explain why the 320H is so picky about CDs Ah, I've got one of those ex-RS/6000 Toshibas. I have the opposite problem -- it won't work on anything except an RS6000! It has custom firmware. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

23 years, 8 months

Commodore 386 LT power adapter

by lgwalker＠look.ca

23 years, 8 months

PC-RTs and AIX (was: X10 & RTs)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 4/24/01 5:21:42 PM Central Daylight Time, rdd(a)smart.net writes: << Do I recall correctly that the PC-RT's tape drive is a "floppy tape" sort of critter? It so, I'm wondering if I can just attach that tape drive to a UNIX box that supports it (if that's possible) and create some sort of bootable tape from the image files. Has anyone here done this? If not, has anyone here created a bootable tape from a working RT running AIX? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis >> Are you talking about the 6157 tape drive? I've heard that is the only drive that the RT will work with. I have both 6157 and RT, but no interface card for it yet. DB Young Team OS/2 antique computer collection, hot rod pinto, and more at: http://www.nothingtodo.org

23 years, 8 months

X10 & RTs (was: IBM PGA)

by ken＠seefried.com

> > From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela(a)ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu> > > We also had a couple of PC-RT's running > X10 as a windowing system as opposed to X11. > Wow...that brings back memories. Anyone else use X10 on a BellTech BLIT card under System V/386? Quirky Intel video processor & all. I still see people using the cheapo BellTech HUB6 cards. How many have the 8530s unsoldered and replaced with 16550s... Anyone else use Dell System VR4/386? That was a really nice distro. Much nicer than Everex, AT&T, Microport, et. al. Yes kids...there was time when *nix on the i386 wasn't free. > > And a couple XTs running some Unix version (PCIX?) > I seem to recall PC/IX. Didn't Venix run on them as well? Anyone else remeber Venix? > > I need to stop the nostalgia now or I'll break into a rousing rendition of > "Where have all the RTs gone?" > Ack. No. I'm sure they are in the same place all of the other technicalliny interesting, ultimately quirky, underpowered, overpriced & poorly marketed hardware is. Ken Seefried, CISSP

23 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2001