On May 27, Brian Chase wrote:
> Another place they can be found is in NeXT's NeXTdimension board. The
> accelerated color graphics option for the NeXT Cubes.
Those sure are nice boards. They're quite powerful for video hacking,
as well as very good at paying a good percentage of my rent for the
past few months. 8-)
-Dave McGuire
On May 27, 20:15, Adrian Graham wrote:
> > From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
> > 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....
I might have a Nascom 1 to dispose of shortly. I'll want some money for it
though, as I paid Real Money for it myself.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
From: jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de <jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
>I decided to write a NetBSD driver for the DEC QBus RXV21 8" floppy
controller. Unfortunately I have only two controllers, no 8" drive nor
medium. I thought that this would'nt be a problem, as it is possible to
If you have the controller (the qbus card) you have less than 15% of
an RX02 system. IT's only an interface.
>Would it be possible to use some other machine* with 5.25" floppy drive
to format the 5.25 media an way that the RXV21 can read it?
No. RXV21 is dual denisty and the double density is a DEC oddball format
using M2FM rather than MFM.
Also the board that goes in the Qbus slot (RXV21) is an interface
not a floppy controller. That "controller" is in the RX02 drive box
and is a 2901 based affair.
Allison
Hi.
I decided to write a NetBSD driver for the DEC QBus RXV21 8" floppy
controller. Unfortunately I have only two controllers, no 8" drive nor
medium. I thought that this would'nt be a problem, as it is possible to
connect a 5.25" drive to a 8" floppy controller. But the medium needs to
be reformated. Now that I have the controller doc, I had to read that
the RXV21 can not format a floppy. It needs preformated media.
Would it be possible to use some other machine* with 5.25" floppy drive
to format the 5.25 media an way that the RXV21 can read it?
* Other machines are QBus MicroVAXen, VAXstation 2000 and PDP11 with
RQDX or PeeCees.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
On May 23, Jim Battle wrote:
> >Yes. Was slow too ;-)
>
> Hey, now. I've actually used an i860. A 3D graphics terminal I worked on
> in 91-93 used two: one for the control processor, one for the geometry unit
Yeahh...the '860 is one hell of a number cruncher.
Another place to find '860 chips is in SGI hardware. The
RealityEngine video system uses eight i860s, and the RealityEngine^2
uses twelve of them. In each case they're used for geometric
transforms.
> I agree, intel has one butt-ugly architecture with the x86, but nobody in
> their right minds can fault them for succeeding despite that. Given the
> fact that they must live with the ugliness, their implementations are first
> rate.
...and what blows my mind is the fact that, of all of their
architectures, the one most unbelievably disgusting one is the one
they keep selling buttloads of.
-Dave McGuire
I would like to find a good home for the following equipment. I'm not
interested in making money off of this equipment but I don't want to have to
pack it for shipping either. I would like someone to come by and pick it up
or arrange for a place to meet somewhere near where I live. I'm in southern
New Hampshire near Manchester.
1. VAXStation II/GPX (VS21W-K2)
2. VAXStation 2000 (VS410-AA)
3. External Hard Drive (RZ55-AA)
4. External Tape Drive (TK50Z-GA)
Anyone interested in this stuff?
Hi Everyone,
A person have laid their hand on that adapter and I'm waiting for
deal to go through so please wait for updates.
Seems everybody is lazy over the weekend or busy with holidays.
Anyway, enjoy your break!
Cheers,
Wizard
I was recently climbing around in a dumpster, and pulled out two
IBM 3290 plasma display terminals. Accordingt to what I can find online,
they are a beefy sort of 3270 terminal that supports split screen and
other stuff. Because I don't have any IBM equipment to hook it up to, and
I really want to see something pretty on the display, is there any other
way to get these to speak to anything except over the BNC which is on the
bottom of the screen? I have not actually powered either one of them up
yet- They rode back to my house in the back of an open-back pickup truck,
so I took them apart and am letting them dry out before I even try. They
are built typical IBM-tough, and I kind of like the looks of them.
They appear toe be about 19" diagonal, and they each weigh close
to 40 pounds. The back comes off with these simple little springy clamp
things, and the electronics iniside are pretty cool looking. Can anybody
point me to any technical info on these bad boys? They look really cool.
Thank you,
Greg Linder
glinder(a)ews.uiuc.edu
glinder(a)uiuc.edu
Hi,
I recently made a trade in which I received a KTM-3/80 terminal (thanks
Claude W. !)
Questions:
(1) Does anyone know what the power requirement is? Claude mentioned he
tried a 9V AC, 1.5A or 2A power supply - and the terminal produced
"garbled" characters on the screen. It was not determined if this was due
to an improper power level being supplied - or due to some problem with the
terminal itself. (My circuit analyzing skills leave much to be desired.)
2) Upon opening the terminal, at one point someone had added a daughter
card. It is of the homespun type, not a commercially sold option. The
daughter card has a total of 8 chips on it, which are:
N7400A
SN74LS393N
74LS04PC
SN74LS133N
SN74LS02N
74LS04PC
It has been so long since I used this terminal - I don't recall if there
was some particular feature missing that would have been nice to add.
Thanks for any/all info ...
Eric F.
