Owen Robertson wrote (in private e-mail to me):
> Well, I was hoping to find diagrams of a simple system someone else had
> created, so that I could study it and get ideas. I was also looking for
> information on address decoding circuitry.
The information I have is likely to be at the chip level rather than the
board level. But I'll see what I can do.
I'm replying to the list because private mail to your From: address (univac
at earthlink dot net) keeps bouncing.
-- Derek
On Apr 2, 7:36, Bryan Pope wrote:
> >
> > The thing is, Microsoft's memory recommendations tend to be the minimum
the
> > OS will function correctly. Remember the minimum requirements for
win95 were
> > a 386sx16 and 4 megs of ram. I'm told it will *boot* in that, if
you're
> > patient. But do useful work? Ha.
> >
> I can confirm that it will boot... I did tech support for this person
> who had just such a beast. It took about 10 minutes to boot. The poor
hard
> drive just kept grinding away the whole time. And this machine was used
to
> take care of their accounting.
I can second that -- I recently gave a friend a little compaq portable (I'd
hestitate to call it a laptop!) which is a 386sx16. i tohught it had 2MB
of RAM, but maybe it was 4MB -- anyway, it does boot, but it takes longer
than 10 minutes. It takes even longer than that to boot linux!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Can RA81/82 disks be reformatted in the field? If so, is this
done through XXDP or is there a way to do it from the disk's
serial port?
My RA82 occasionally lights its FAULT light and extinguishes its
ready light during write operations. The likelyhood of it
faulting appears (but I am not certain) to be correlated with a specific
region of the disk.
About five-ten seconds after the fault, the FAULT indicator turns
off and ready comes back on. At no time is an I/O error generated
that the application or the operating system (2.11BSD) see
so this fault appears to be transient and is resolved by either
the drive or the drive/controller together.
It "smells" like a data write error that's resolved after a few
automatic retries. I'm hoping a low-level reformat could clear it
up. Am I wacked out?
If there's an XXDP exerciser/formatter available I'd appreciate it
if someone could point me there. It's been nearly twenty years since
the last time I even tried running XXDP
Thanks as always,
greg
p.s. The RA81 drive on the same controller never gives any
trouble (yet). I've tried some more basic things like
swapping SDI cables and drive ports but it doesn't make
a difference.
Gregory Travis
Cornerstone Information Systems ATS
greg(a)ciswired.com
812 330 4361 ext. 18
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:09:49 -0800
> From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
>
> Got any FastPath docs?
I do, plus, I was software lead on the FastPath at Shiva in the early
90s. I did the FastPath 4+ and FastPath 5.
-phil
Hi;
I have run across a lot of DEC that is available at a Government agency that
is available for negotiated sale. Unfortunately, there are some units I know
little about. Since it is the government there are complications with the
hard drives that I will mention after the list.
The lot is;
one Microvax II in a BA123 cabinet
two VAX 4000/200s small square floor towers
one VAX 4000/100 Desktop
two DEC 2000 AXP
one DEC PC AXP 150
one DEC 486 PC
one DEC Storage works small drive tower w/o drives
one CD tower with 3 or 4 CD drives in it, I think DEC mfg. but not sure.
The limitations are no keyboards, mice or monitors. Otherwise the equipment
seems complete. I will not have the opportunity to list boards, drives, etc.
It is supposed to be working equipment.
I was told by the property manager that the drives will have to be removed,
or if I wanted the drives they would have to be erased to his satisfaction.
No Government software can get out of the agency.
Does anyone know how to clean the drives in situ given the limitations. I
could probably scrounge up a terminal but I don't have one easily accessible.
Not to mention I have no experience in reformatting vaxes. Would a honking
big magnet trash the drives? If I can't clean the drives they will keep them.
What I really need is an idea of the value of the units. It has to be more
than scrap otherwise they will go for recycling.
They have a contract with a scrap recycler that lets them deduct the value of
the machines from their budget if they go to this recycler so it is too their
advantage to recycle them. However the Property manager likes me and is
willing to help if I can satisfy his requirements.
I have little interest in keeping them so they would be offered to the list
first. If you want to make an offer on any please contact me off list at
whoagiii(a)aol.com.
Speculation of their value on list is OK by me if it is OK with the
listmembers.
What are the AXP units? I have no idea what AXP means or what processors are
in them?
Thanks for the help.
Paxton
Portland, Oregon
For some reason, I've been encountering a lot of EISA systems recently. It
doesn't seem like such a nice bus, much like MCA, but at least in theory, it
beats ISA. What bothers me, though, is the fact that there doesn't seem to be
any central repository for the configuration files needed, unlike MCA adaptor
description files, which have been neatly collected by Peter Wendt et al.
Despite much googling, I've been unable to find drivers for my Netflex-2
ethernet card, and finding one for my NE3200 proved to be a real struggle as
well. What a bother.
Does anyone have any EISA links to recommend, or the configuration file for
the Netflex-2?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
A Spanish MSX Group "Matra" visited to this Fair. I lent Spanish stand to
them. They showed and did Promotion play of SEX BOMB BUNNY. And this Game has
tema song of Majingar-Z! Why they know Japanese TV animation?
K. Ikeda, MSX-Print
I am sending off a bunch of compact MACs to the "familly compound" where we
have our many familly holiday gatherings. I had accumulated over 30 of
these, mostly Classics and Classic IIs.
We end up with a bunch of kids there (ages 4 to14) and I would like to hook
up some MACs together and get them running some sort of head to head
games...Since these are small and compact they will be fine for the kids and
4 or 6 of these will not take up more than a large table...I am doing some
spring cleaning in the collection so...
I was not into games when these were popular so...anybody remember any good
titles that could be played head-to-head on these?
Thanks
Claude
From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
>>For a while I had a parallel port webcam running of a 386sx20 with 4MB
>>of RAM and it ran Windows 95. While it was slow it did get the job
>
>The catch with using w95 regardless of speed, it that for many cases its
>the only game in town if you want network services, ie winsocket etc.
Huh? What about linux, freebsd, and friends.?
Allison
At 01:16 02-04-2001 -0400, Bear wrote:
>They're just text. Part of the specification for a .cfg is that it have a
>descriptive name in it.
>
>Like this sample excerpt from !bus4201.cfg:
<snip>
Yes, all true. However, the design of the descriptor was left up to the
manufacturer. Compaq chose to put 'CPQ' in the front part of all their .CFG
filenames, and a four-digit number following it.
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