Well, I'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon to pick up the VAX 8600 lot
at Austin. I have a question regarding the locking of heads on the
RA81s. When I've hauled one before, the owner already had it locked
and ready to go. The status of the RA81s at Austin is unknown. I
seem to recall that the heads should be locked only while the disk
is spinning or scrapage of the platter will occur.
My question is this: assuming the disks are not locked and there is
no way to spin them up, should I haul them unlocked or go ahead and
try locking them?
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu
The modems are $5 shipped each, both for $8 shipped. The manual is $3
shipped. Take everything for $8 shipped, but with preference given to
anybody who just wants the manual. The modems are untested/unknown condition.
Cardinal 2400MNP modem, no power supply
Microcom MacModem V.32, MNP Class 4, no power supply
Manual for AdSCSI ST Series, SCSI Host Adapters
Tom
Applefritter
www.applefritter.com
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:02:39 +0200
> From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
> Subject: Re: UK
>
> And what's about all that cool brit stuff ?
>
> Come on, I wand an Amstrad PDA, and a Sinclair MK 14,
> and of course all the other sinclairs, and the BBCs
> and yea, I'm still missing any NASCOM 1 or 2 ... ther
> is so much great GB computers to get ... isn't it ?
How many BBCs and 'other' Sinclairs would you like, Hans? :o) I've got one
or 2 spare....
cheers
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum
0:OK, 0:1
Hi,
I've just been sent most of the manual for the CE-516P plotter (another
Sharp with the same microcontroller/ESC codes) and in typical sod's law
fashion, two of the pens have dried up. Anyone know of a (UK) source for
these? What about the paper rolls?
Thanks.
--
Phil.
http://www.philpem.f9.co.uk/
philpem(a)bigfoot.com
> I was convinced after seeing the "Last Star Demo" a few years back (1998?)
> that the Star interface was still years ahead of both Apple and MS.
Wish I'd seen that. Yeah, ViewPoint/Star/GlobalView (whatever you want to
call it) is still a long way ahead of what we've ended up with. I usually
use GVWin on the laptop for docs etc, they only get converted to Word format
if they have to be sent outside :-) Admittedly it's only become usable since
the hardware has been fast enough to support it - a 15 minute boot time for
VP on a 6085 is next to useless, but it boots in 20 seconds or so on a
400MHz laptop. I wish I could get hold of XDE (Tajo), that would sit very
nicely in another volume of my GVWin virtual disk...
Al.
Vintage Computer Festival East 1.0
July 28th and 29th, 2001
Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center
Marlborough, Massachusetts
http://www.vintage.org/2001/east/
Mark you calendar! The first Vintage Computer Festival for the east
coast of the United States is scheduled for the weekend of July 28th
and 29th at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center in
Marlborough, Massachusetts.
The Vintage Computer Festival is a celebration of computers and their
history. The event features speakers, a vintage computer exhibition,
and a vintage computer marketplace. We showcase all different types
of computers for all differents kinds of platforms in all different
shapes and sizes.
EXHIBIT YOUR VINTAGE COMPUTER
Vintage Computer Collectors: we want you! Exhibit your favorite
computer in the Vintage Computer Exhibition. First, Second and
Third place prizes will be awarded to the Best of Show exhibits!
For complete details on the VCF East 1.0 Exhibition, visit:
http://www.vintage.org/2001/east/exhibit.php3
BUY/SELL/TRADE AT THE VINTAGE COMPUTER MARKETPLACE
Do you have some vintage computer items you'd like to sell? Whether
you rent a booth or sell on consignment, the Vintage Computer
Marketplace is the premier venue for selling old computers and
related items. If you would like to rent a booth or inquire about
consignment rates, please send e-mail to <vendor(a)vintage.org> for more
information or visit:
http://www.vintage.org/2001/east/vendor.php3
HOTEL INFORMATION
The Vintage Computer Festival has reserved a room block with the
Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center. The rate is
$119.00/night for single or double occupancy. Please make your
reservations by Friday, July 6, by calling +1 888 543 9500 (or
+1 508 460 0700). Ask for the "Vintage Computer Festival" room rate.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The VCF is currently recruiting volunteers for various odd jobs
the VCF needs help with before and during VCF East. Volunteers get
free admission and other goodies. If you would like to volunteer
to help out with VCF East, please send a message to Sellam Ismail
<sellam(a)vintage.org>.
TELL A FRIEND! TELL A FRIEND! TELL A FRIEND!
We really hope to see you at the first VCF for the east coast! And
remember, tell your friends!!
Vintage Computer Festival East 1.0
July 28th and 29th, 2001
Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center
Marlborough, Massachusetts
http://www.vintage.org/2001/east/
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
Last night I used Warren Toomey's VTserver to download the 2.11BSD boot partition to a cold PDP-11/53 that I put together from the following parts:
-KDJ11-PB CPU board from a DECserver 500 (bought for $10 on eBay)
-Andromeda UDC11 MFM disk controller (like RQDX3?) from my 11/23
-Maxtor XT-2190 hard drive from a MicroVAX (head 13 bad, so only 130 meg)
-DSD StackPac chassis and front panel
I am not a UNIX expert. I need a place to ask ignorant* questions, and get meaningful and prompt answers. Is this the right place?
Here are the first couple questions:
At boot-up, right after it tells me about how much memory I have, it starts spitting gibberish. If I tell Kermit (my console) to switch to 7 bits even parity, I can read stuff again. It appears that the OS is changing the line parameters. Does this make sense? If so, where do I find the file with this config in it? I grepped for "stty" in / and /etc but didn't find anything useful looking.
I still can boot RT-11 from the floppy, but when I try to boot UNIX from the hard drive it halts. I did "dd if=/mdec/rauboot of=/dev/ra0a count=1" per Steve Schultz's instructions, but it still won't boot. I can download Warren's boot.dd via VTserver, and type "ra(0,0,0)unix", and UNIX starts right up, so the only problem is the boot sector. It used to boot RT-11 from hard drive fine, before I clobbered it with UNIX. The only catch is that I have to toggle HALT and say "171000G" (there's a boot ROM on the disk controller) because the CPU boot ROMs at 173000 are some goofy DECserver stuff. Any ideas?
I partitioned the hard drive with 4.5 meg at ra0a, 4 meg at ra0b, and the rest at ra0d. Was I supposed to disklabel ra0d as "2.11BSD" or leave it "unused" -- the instructions didn't say. When I try to newfs to /dev/ra0d, it gives me "not a character device". Here's ra0d:
ls -l /dev/ra0d
brw-r----- 1 root 5, 3 Sep 7 1987 /dev/ra0d
I need a way to download the rest of the UNIX tar files over the console line. VTserver's documentation sort of stops after booting up the root image. Where do I go from here? Is there some built-in way of using a serial line driver like a tape, such as "tar xvf /dev/tty"?
* "Ignorance can be fixed; stupid is forever."
--
Jonathan Engdahl Rockwell Automation
Principal Research Engineer 24800 Tungsten Road
Advanced Technology Euclid, OH 44117 USA
Euclid Labs http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl
I picked up two Digital DECpc AXP150's from a buddy. He pulled the
ram, but they still have everything else. I pulled some old simms from
some other dumpseter trips, but can't seem to get anything to come
up. When I power them on, the LED indicators either tell me there is
problem in RAM bank one, or else all LED's on when I power it on with no
RAM in it. Does anyone have any of these things in an operating state? Can
anyone offer any advise on gettin these up? I have always wanted an Alpha
to run VMS on, and I think these will do it. Any advise? Thank you very
much!
Greg Linder
glinder(a)uiuc.edu
glinder(a)ews.uiuc.edu
