Newbie here...apologies if this is a stupid question.
Background: I'm a unix-geek who has used VMS in the past, but never
done any VMS administration. Naturally, when I got the opportunity
to possess my own MicroVAX 3100, I leapt at it!
I managed to get a terminal for the VAX and figured out how to boot
it, via "BOOT DKA300" at the >>> prompt. This gave me a boot sequence
of some sort, terminating in an OpenVMS 6.1 tagline and a "$" prompt.
Unfortunately, once I got to this point, I was at a loss about what
to do next. None of the VMS commands I enter are recognized as valid
commands...they all return the error:
%CLI-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling
I haven't been able to find anything on the web that tells me what to
do next. I've even left the box running since I booted it last night,
for fear that turning it off will corrupt a mounted filesystem.
Anybody out there know what I'm not doing right, or have a URL that
points to a site for a beginner-Admin of a VMS box?
Thanks...
Peter Kukla
Does anyone have any empty DEC Storageworks SBB cases
available? I'm trying to find some 5.25" cases I can
stick a CDROM drive and DLT drive in to use with my
Storageworks shelves so I can hot-swap the drives
between my two systems.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
hi everyone,
I've just subbed to this list to try and find out some information about a
machine i've rescued from literally being thrown into a skip as scrap.
The company i work for as just thrown out several UNIX machines.... of these
i managed to rescue:
Complete Silicon Graphics Indy system, with monitor and fully working
SUN SPARCstation IPC, fully working
IBM RS/6000 POWERstation 530, fully working (probably)
There where other (older) machines that went, but unfortunately i wasn't
able to save them.
it's the IBM i'm trying to find information on, like identifying how much
memory it has, disk capacity, CPUs etc... i also want to know how to connect
a terminal up to it so i can get it running on my network and see what's on
it.
It was operational the last time it was turned on, i had to pull the network
and power out of the back of it when i had it so it hasn't been moved since
it was powered off... it used to have a keyboard and a large colour monitor
on it, sadly i dont have these. The CD-Rom drive was also removed for some
reason.
There's a label on the front: 7013 26-0111
and one on the back saying: "This machine upgraded to General Availability
level on 04/10/91"
If anyone has any details on this can you please contact me!
there are some pictures of it at:
http://www.daneel.demon.co.uk/images/power01.jpghttp://www.daneel.demon.co.uk/images/power02.jpghttp://www.daneel.demon.co.uk/images/power03.jpghttp://www.daneel.demon.co.uk/images/power04.jpghttp://www.daneel.demon.co.uk/images/power05.jpg
in case your wondering, i'm in the UK
many thanks
mark nias
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Mark Nias - http://www.mr2.net
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Pardon the auction announcement...
I'm unloading some truly rare Amiga items, particularly clothing in
this batch - how about a CBM bag, an Amiga checkmark sweatshirt, or
a t-shirt from the first Amiga "wake" party held in 1987?
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=jfoust@thr…
For the classic-minded, there's an 8-port ISA serial card for a PC.
- John
I just got back from out of state with another DEC haul. I filled my Astro van
to the roof with more docs software and misc before Mr. Landfill took them.
Whew! 42 hours with no sleep. I'm getting too old for this.
Anyway, I'm not even sure whats there yet but I did see a few versions of
Ultrix and VMS on many different media. It looks like it is mostly VAX stuff
and I will post it here when I have it inventoried.
A few things I did see while loading...
64Mb for the VAX 8700(box was labled as such)
Ultrix ver 1.0 on Magtape
Many RX50's with Ultrix
Lots of original sales flyers for Vax's
Brand new spare boards for the 750
New replacement RK05 heads
Lots of DECstations
A nice unexpected bonus was finding a PDP8a in the pile and in it was a RL8
controller.
to bed....
Brian.
--
Brian Roth - System Administrator
www.webwirz.com - Old Computer Repository
Preoccupation is my main occupation.....
Get your bids in early on this one. Its a rare Adaptec PDP-8e. Back in the 60's DEC licensed their PDP8 architecture to Adaptec to make exact replica's of their now infamous design. Sales were sluggish so they decided to make SCSI interfaces instead.
Truly one of a kind....
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1232453120
Brian.
Brian Roth
Network Services
First Niagara Bank
(716) 625-7500 X2186
Brian.Roth(a)FirstNiagaraBank.com
Hi Iggy Drougge, you wrote on 4/29/01 3:56:00 PM:
>Jeffrey S. Sharp skrev:
>
>Quoting Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se>:
>> But of course I turn the programs off before flicking the switch!
>
>Well, you see, there is/are some program(s), called the "operating
>system", that you aren't turning off. You turn it off by running
>the shutdown procedure.
>
>Why would I turn off the OS? It's just running there and has no business
>on my
>disks.
So, how do you get to "your disks" without going through the OS?
Kelly
Tony,
I have the PCjr Technical reference too and it covers the pinouts
of the expansion bus, but not the 3rd party expansion unit itself.
I have no documentation for that beast.
It sounds like I should buy some soldering/desoldering equipment
and start practicing. The broken pin is in the bottom row of the
connector, so I don't have easy access to remove it in place.
Were you suggesting that I only cut away part of the connector,
leave the rest intact, and then replace the part that I cut away?
That would certainly save a lot of work, since it is 30 pins
across and this pin is second from the outside.
Now the power supply is a trickier problem. The PCjr power
supply has an external transformer, then another stage inside.
The expansion unit looks to have the same setup, except I don't
have the external transformer. Since it has the same connector
as the standard PCjr power supply, I grabbed a spare PCjr power
supply and used it. It's possible that the input voltage is
wrong, thus causing the second stage inside the expansion unit
to do the wrong thing.
So here's the $64000 question - does a Rapport Drive II
expansion chassis use the same power supply as the PCjr? If
not, can anybody tell me what the true power supply behaves
like?
Back to assuming I've got the correct external transformer ...
I checked all of the boards on the expansion chassis, and I
didn't see any burn marks. Does that mean I have no shorts
on the board ? ;-) I know what a short is, especially when
it starts vaporizing wire, but how do I diagnose a short on
something that looks pretty clean and isn't doing anything
obvious?
I need to find if that pick line is going active - that
might be the key to my problems. I'm really thinking of
putting an external supply on it, just to test to make sure
that it really is the power supply that is acting up. If
the rest of it works, then I can relax and take my sweet
time with the power supply.
(I'm a glutton for punishment. I've got 6 danged PCjrs in
the house, all in some state of disrepair. I'd like a good
working one. Next time I'm going to pay the premium for
one in mint condition.)
PCjr heads - check this out:
http://pws.chartermi.net/~mbbrutman/PCjr
My contribution to classic computers ....
Thanks,
Mike
I found this on Ebay. Is this really SCSI? I thought it ran off of a
special board made just fot it.... the M7552?
In fact is this one of the same drives that was given away on the list?
I don't recall, who gave it away, but I recall him mentioning a cd being
stuck in it, just like this one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1233983573
I would buy it, but am unsure of exactly what it is.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
> I found this on Ebay. Is this really SCSI? I thought it ran off of a
> special board made just fot it.... the M7552?
> In fact is this one of the same drives that was given away on the list?
> I don't recall, who gave it away, but I recall him mentioning a cd being
> stuck in it, just like this one!
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1233983573
> I would buy it, but am unsure of exactly what it is.
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
This is an external DEC 1X CD-ROM drive, SCSI, 512 byte sectors. It uses
a really strange type of caddy that was probably never used anywhere
else.
It took me a little while to figure out how to load/unload these things
:)
It works nicely as a 512 byte sector CD-ROM for getting those older
workstations running, but it is EXTREMELY slow.
Technically, I think that inside this enclosure is an interface
converter
board that changes the proprietary CD-ROM interface to SCSI. Kind of
reminiscent of those external TK50 cubes for the uVAX 2000 that
contained
boards to convert the special TK50->TQK50 interface to SCSI.
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