Hi Everyone, on my wish list is a KA694. This was the CPU in the VAX
4000/705a and is basically the fastest Q-bus enabled VAX you could buy. It
bookmarks the series (which starts with the MicroVAX I).
I've got other VAXen I could trade for it including 4000/200 or a VLC or a
3800, etc. So if you are looking to round out your collection here's your
chance! :-)
--Chuck
Hi,
I am sorry if some of you guys missed out on the recent transputer stuff
I gave away. In a month or so, I will be in London picking up 3 large
boxes
of transputer stuff (including an original mint condition IMSB001 in its
original INMOS blue bag!). Due to my limited space, I will be giving
away
any duplicate books, software, etc to anyone who wants it. In the near
future,
I will also be cleaning out a warehouse full of transputer stuff (or
whatever is
left of it), so whatever I dont need, I'll definitely pass it along
FREE OF CHARGE.
I just dont have the heart to throw this out and I just cant get myself
to post this on
ebay especially when good people have donated all this equipment for
free. I only ask
that whoever wants this, just limit yourselves to *ONLY ONE* piece of
equipment
so that we have enough for everyone....
Cheers,
Ram
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I seem to remember that the people at the Gutenberg Project have scanned
over 3000 books and made them electronically available, I know they have
done a set of encyclopaedias also. I bet then know about scanning books and
documents. Maybe they have a FAQ.
http://promo.net/pg/
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
All,
I think I can finally report what was causing my intermittent NeXT
cube "unexpected kernel page fault" crashes. Up-time is now over 240 hours
and counting.
The problems were heat, and bad ventilation. The short story is, I
had the fan reversed (to blow into the cube) and had a very leaky enclosure
as the first step on the cooling air path. This was due my installation of
a floppy drive looking out through an optical-drive-sized aperture in the
front of the cube.
Clue for NeXT cube owners: seal up unused apertures and air leaks
in the front of the cube. The air needs to go into the drive bay, down into
the power supply, out into the motherboard bays, then out the bottom of the
machine.
In my case, sealing apertures alone didn't do it - I ended up
putting the fan back to its original flow direction (exhausting from the
cube, so that the CPU board gets the cool air *first* as it is pulled in
>from under the cube, rather than last as it goes out via the power supply).
I also sealed up the optical and floppy apertures completely, using blocks
of black foam rubber (which I'll pull temporarily in order to use the
drives as needed). This may eventually cause trouble with the optical or
floppy, YMMV and I don't have any long-term experience with it. I'm hoping
it will minimize dust build-up in the optical, which is the original
well-known reason for reversing the fan.
Hope this is helpful, and many thanks to the list members that
helped me with hard drives, parts, etc. The "long story" of all the stuff I
tried and why I tried it is available on request, for the next few weeks at
any rate (until my WORN cranial storage system has purged the details....).
- Mark
I got a set of CSA TEK Manuals for anyone who is either
willing pickup or ship from Long Island. All the books are
in mint condition and never been opened. These books are
very difficult to come by (especially the transputer assembly
language book)....
Ram
> > Anyone interested in a HP 97 Calculator for the price of shipping?
> > Comes complete with wall-wart, and a (probably tired) but still usable
> > battery.
Sellam is the winner of the HP 97 Calculator by a margin of about
5-hours. Nightowl! Thanks for all of your responses.
- don
Sellam, you are still on Rosewood?
Hi,
I have recently acquired an old AS/400 terminal keyboard in (apparently)
working condition.
The pinout on the keyboard, while 5 pins and the same size as an AT
connector, has the pins misplaced, so as not to plug into an AT jack.
I'm just curious if anyone has dones this sort of thing before
(i.e. plugging an AS/400 terminal keyboard into a PC). I'm on the
verge of Visiting Radioshack, however I have no information as to the
functioning of this keyboard.
Any information that I can find would be most appreciated (as I *love*
how this keyboard feels, and desperately want to use it :).
--
Ian Warford / iwarford(a)home.com
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity
of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see
engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and
that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here
instead of there... now instead of then. -"-,_,-"- Blaise Pascal
> On 23 Jun 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>
> > BTW, a while ago I looked at a very old 3Com full-length card. The PCB
> > was a rich blue, much like the 3C501, but that's a small eight-bit ISA
> > card, this one was full-length. For some reason the seller thought he
> > could ask more for this card than the 3C509s of another seller, so I
> > skipped them. Otherwise, they would have been a nice curiosity.
>
> Chances are good that these were 3C505 cards, which you need to make an
> ISA-bus Apollo workstation speak ethernet.
>
> Better still if they had the boot ROMs on them, which would have made them
> real Apollo parts and thus capable of netbooting same.
As I told Ethan, I don't need them now, but I'd rather have more
than see them in a landfill. OTOH, mine work, and have ROMs, so
I can dupe the ROMs should anyone need a working Apollo 3c505 ROM.
Regards,
-doug q
Interesting snail-mail postal spammer tidbits.
My mother is a big enemy of regular snail-mail SPAM, she usually sends back
the postage prepaid envelopes taped to all of the paper mail it came with.
I believe that the postal service collects a fee for processing the prepaid
envelopes on top of the postage. The only reason the SPAMMERS like it is
that they normally only pay postage on the recipients that show some
interest. If they get alot back that cost them they loose money. Maybe she
should tape the postage prepaid envelope to a brick and return it.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
