My opinion on the value of old items is that they were created for a task,
they performed the task and then survived to the present. For example I am
thrilled when I can hold and read a rare book that was read by somebody 400
years ago. I'm seeing the same information that they saw, I'm reading the
same words. Some of the books aren't event that old, I have read first
edition science fiction books from the 1930's.
Seeing an old computer gives me the same thrill, the Smithsonian has
examples of computers on display that I can remember using 20-30 years ago.
Maybe it's nostalgia for my youth. I think the real reason is that there
was a great promise that computers offered to solve problems never before
solved. Now we are numbed by the rapid progress and "noise level". There
are games, media, and information that comes at us in an avalanche and we
filter out the value of most of it.
The Apollo era computers and hardware now seem so simple almost antique, yet
at the time they did the job and were examples of the level of
sophistication that could be achieved.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
I have some PDP-11/70 boards available. The board numbers are:
M8123
M8164
M8136
M8135
M8142
M7984
Please contact me if you can use any of these.
Thanks Norm
I went scrounging this weekend and found an Intel power supply. It's
a stand alone uinit that runs on 115 or 230 volts AC and it has two output
connectors. They look like Molex connectors but they're bigger than the
ones used in the PCs. Each connector has nine pins and puts out 5 VDC@8A
and + & - 12 VDC @ .5 A. The box is about a foot long and 6 inches wide and
about 5 inches tall. The ends are white and the sides and top are made of
perforated metal painted black. The Intel part number is
108399-003. Does anyone know what this is for?
Joe
Saw this thread some months back but did'nt have an N40 then. Now
I've picked up a couple at auction and having the same problem, namely
systems come up to a login prompt and I don't have account/password.
The original poster was able to work around by reloading the OS. But
since I dont have the AIX3.2 distro it comes back to the original
question, how to get into single user mode/root to be able to open
a new user account? I've googled the net but little is out there about
the N40. I'm a AIX/unix newbie so any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks
- nick oliviero
I just ran across my missing three serial cables that I got originally with
my Commodore 8 port serial card for the A2000. These have a DB25 on one end
and a 8 pin mini-DIN on the other. The A2000 w/ its card are gone, but the
cables were left behind. So if you got one of these cards and are missing
the cables this is a really great opportunity.
Also found an AREXX book for the Amiga. Will include it if desired.
They are available for trade for any DEC Q-bus or MicroVAX stuff.
--Chuck
Yes, HP bought Apollo in 1989, solely for their RISC technology, which they
added to their RISC chip and caused it to become much better than before...
*Drools over thought of owning a 4 processor DN10000*
Will J
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From: Bill Pechter <pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp1366.monmouth.com>
>Personally, I think DEC pretty much invented the workstation...
>Actually GT40's were pretty much early cad stations for pc cad
>(Racal-Redac) had some pretty good software on them.
>
>Wasn't the PDP1 pretty much an engineering workstation with Vector
>(rather than raster) based CRT.
Yep and most of the later machines also had similar display systems
or better.
>Apollo and Sun were pretty much an alternative to the higher
>priced Vaxes with add-on graphics like the VSV11 unit.
Untill DEC caught on then the workation wars were on.
Allison
From: Demon02554(a)aol.com <Demon02554(a)aol.com>
>ok...this one is weird
it is a standard PSU in a 486 Compaq that i just dug up outta my dads
storage...
it will start up only if i disconnect it from everything...
when i connect it to the motherboard and only the motherboard then it
will
start for a few seconds, then die...and even if i disconnect everything
from
it after that it won't start back up...
before i go through and test every connection does anyone have any
suggestions as to what is wrong with this thing?
the PSU is dead or very dying. repair or replace.
Allison
Well if the existence of reproductions means the Mona Lisa isn't rare, then
you miss the whole point... Along the lines of what Jeff said, I would add
that any moron can make a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, but could you
create it, from scratch, with actual paint/canvas/etc., use the same style
as Da Vinci, and end up with the same result? I highly doubt it. Now you may
be an extremely accomplished painter or something, I don't mean to assume
you've never painted or anything, but I have personal experience with what
it is like to try to paint in the same style as one the masters, and let me
tell you, it is *very* difficult.. I tried to paint like Monet, and I really
didn't come very close to his style at all. However, I did gain a new
appreciation for the level of skill he must have had in order to paint in
such a way.
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I downloaded the DECUS P/OS distribution. I did a
FULL reinstallation but I can't remember the proper
way to install the extra items from the rest of the
floppies (I'm talking about the 21 floppies in the
177 set). I tried to install a couple of them by
using the install option from Environmental Services
but I get an error that some of the files must be
installed system-wide and to contact the system
administrator. I've set the default account to be
SYSTEM but that didn't help.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
