test-drb June 2001

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Does anyone collect Apollo workstations?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > > Are DN300's or a DN330 of any interest? > > > > > > The DN3XX machines have a nice external drive box that features a half-height > > > 8-inch floppy, probably DSDD. I have a number of these, along with the 8 inch > > > winchester disks. > > > > Aren't they a little old and slow? > > So are most of us on this board. What's your point? My name is Oblio, and I don't have to have a point to have a point. ;-) -dq

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by healyzh＠aracnet.com

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Does anyone collect Apollo workstations?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> The DN3010 I have running now is very minimal in terms of > hardware. It has a 19 inch monitor and mouse and that's > about it. At one point I thought I was going to acquire > a DN10000. That arrangement never went through. I'd like one of these, as well... > I don't have any detail on the DN3500's being shipped > here. I will know the condition when I open up the box. I look forward to your report! > It would be nice to have AutoCAD. Hopefully, there will be > something cool on one of the 7 machines. -dq

24 years, 2 months

Does anyone collect Apollo workstations?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Are DN300's or a DN330 of any interest? > > The DN3XX machines have a nice external drive box that features a half-height > 8-inch floppy, probably DSDD. I have a number of these, along with the 8 inch > winchester disks. Aren't they a little old and slow? > What about the DN660? (thats a cool Apollo!) Plays an > awesome game of battle zone! > > Or the DN3000, DN3500, DN4000 style machines? I've got a DN2500 and two 425t stations that can connect to it. I haven't had time to dig deeply enough to determine whether it has any games on it or not. I have a full set of Domain/OS 10.4 tapes, but 10.4.1 is running on it now. I've been able to rrad and write to both my 8mm drive and a DC600-type cartridge drive. But tere doesn't seem to be a way to write boot tapes on the 8mm, and although I can write boot tapes on the cartridges, I can seem to boot from them. I'd like to be certain I've got a really complete backup before I start messing around with it too much. I have one Apollo monitor, one HP; the 3 machines all have Ethernet cards, but the Apollo Token Ring cards and switchboxes and cables all came with the systems. I have three of the newer-styled keyboards and mice for them (the original Logitech Mouse), but the DN2500 originally had a different keyboard. The DN2500 is missing the little door that closes over the service panel. I have no printed documentation, and would really like to have some. I also downloaded all the patches from HP's web site as they've implied the site will soon disappear. Feel free to drop me a message privately if you want to chat. Regards, -doug quebbeman

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Any Dutch/Belgium Collectors ?

by GOOI＠oce.nl

Hi. I am here every workday, though I am not a frequent contributor compared to many others. If you want to see something of my collection, check http://home.12move.nl/~sh416008 I uploaded yesterday some new stuff, mainly PDP-11/34A. As many others, the site is under construction. Groeten / kind regards Henk Gooijen Nederweert-Eind The Netherlands > -----Original Message----- > From: William Staniewicz [mailto:wstan@localhostnl.demon.nl] > Sent: dinsdag 12 juni 2001 22:45 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Any Dutch/Belgium Collectors ? > > > I have just begun collecting the Apollo's (Domain/OS). > Right now have a DN3010 with several DN3500's on the way > soon. Originally I am from the US so not a native here. > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:33:15PM +0200, Stefan wrote: > > Are there any Dutch or Belgium collectors here that I don't > know yet ? > > Just curious :) Think I know most of them, but hey, you > never know ;) > > > -- > Bill William Staniewicz > Amsterdam, NL > >

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VAX Hobbyist licenses

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, Encompass sent me my "Encompass Membership ID" by email last night. (I'm a new member.) Next week I'll try to license my CD for the VAX. The wheels do turn, if slowly. - Mark

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Ebay horror ...

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, John Allain wrote: > > > Yeah, that guy was Tom Perera, and he's like the Behemoth bike guy, > > Steve Roberts... They're both legendary and are 'no can miss' when > > they show at your Flea. I've seen Tom in Boston so he gets around. > > Maybe they both should put out tour schedules! > > By the way, Steve Roberts' bike is in the Computer Museum History Center > now. He wrote a book about his travels called "Computing Across America". > I just scored another copy of it (autographed :) at a thrift store. Steve started out (well, he may have started elsewhere) in Louisville, Kentucky, where he ran a business called CyberTronics, an electronics parts place. They sold some kits, like S-100 boards too, but I was buying parts to build my SOL-PC. It's been fun to keep track of his travels over the years. -dq

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Questions regarding a PDP11/34a

by kees.stravers＠iae.nl

On 2001-06-14 classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org said to kees.stravers(a)iae.nl >> I remember someone asking about loading software over a serial line >Thinking I had on the subject is that it would be trivial, >given the 11's console abilities (set address, deposit byte) >to take machine code and have a PC program turn it into a >stream of Deposit instructions, heck it could be a 'vi' macro. You might want to take a look at VTserver, a program used to install Ultrix-11 on an empty PDP-11 via the console port and one regular serial line. The source is available. ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/pub/PDP-11/Vtserver/ A WIN32 version of VTserver is at http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/software.htm The program is still very much in development. Kees. -- Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - kees.stravers(a)iae.nl http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/ My home page (old computers,music,photography) http://www.vaxarchive.org/ Info on old DEC VAX computers (Mirrors: http://vaxarchive.khubla.com/ and http://vaxarchive.sevensages.org/) Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered

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Questions regarding a PDP11/34a

by GOOI＠oce.nl

Hi Sean. > --- snip --- > 1. Does anyone have the pinouts for the serial line connector > on the DL11 board? I can check at home. My 11/34A console is connected by a self-made connector. Just a few wires. Which DL11 board do you have? M7800, M7800-YA or M7856? AFAIK, the M7856 is most common. > 2. Does anyone know what that BM873-YJ board is? I'm just curious. My guess it is an M873 variant. In that case it possibly contains boot ROMs. > 3. What would be the best way to get this old system running > again? I've got no interface to that RX02 drive, and even .... I would opt for: - an RX02 with the M8256 - an RL02 with the M7762 > I remember someone asking about loading software over a serial line? Sorry. No experience with that. I will report back tomorrow, as promised, unless somebody else already told how to connect the console. -- Henk. PS. You may find some info on the 11/34(A) on my website. Click on the 11/35 console. http://home.12move.nl/~sh416008

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Questions regarding a PDP11/34a

by GOOI＠oce.nl

Hello Sean. Ok. I'm back. Sorry for the silly question of which DL11 board you have. You mentioned it in the board list. Anyway, here's how I have connected the M7856 to a VT220 (EIA, RS-232C). +------------------+ |.(B) ...... (VV).| |/ |.(A) ..... (UU).| | =====================================================|\ == (viewing the edge of the M7856 where the BERG connected is) The lower righthand side pin (closest to the board is A. Right above it is pin B. At the lower lefthand side, the pin closest to the board is UU, and above it is VV. Then, the alphabet on the BERG connector is as follows. B D F J L N R T V X Z BB DD FF JJ LL NN RR TT VV A C E H K M P S U W Y AA CC EE HH KK MM PP SS UU The following wires run from the BERG connector to the DB25 connector I have at home (forgot to write down if it is male or female). Also, because I made it fit to a longer wire with DB25's at both ends it *_might_* be a null-modem cable.... BERG DB25 =================== VV | 7 DD | 20 V | 4 J | 2 F | 3 Further, a small wire connects (E) to (M) on the BERG connector. BTW. My 11/35 has an BM872. It is a boot card (dual) with diodes on it to form a matrix addresslines/datalines. So, you can solder your bootstrap program's zeroes and ones in real hardware :) Success, Henk.

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test-drb June 2001