>Yesterday, thanks to Tim Shoppa, I collected some 8" SMD drives: a
>couple of Fujitsu M2333 (337MB) and M2382 (1GB each!) drives and an
>Emulex SC03 controller. Its my understanding that I might not be able
>to use these large drives with an SCO2 or SC03 controller, so, I'm
>wondering what I need in order to use them with a PDP-11/73.
Bob -
>From your description of your current SMD drive controller, it's probably
an Emulex QD32 or QD33, in which case it ought to handle the newer M2333
and M2382 just fine. I think your first priority should be to figure
out what you've currently got :-).
The SC03 will handle a Fuji Eagle (with a few slight adjustments to take
into account interleaving), but not anything with a faster data rate,
unfortunately.
Tim.
Well, I got up at 5am to go to this. Got there
at 6 when the gates opened. Attendance was light,
probably due to the impending rain. There was no
rain at 6 and there were about 30 tailgaters. Not
much of vintage interest, some Sun boxes here and
there, a few old Macs and one guy with a couple of
Atari boxes.
Got what I thought was a good deal, 4 2Gig wide SCSI
drives for $3 each. Unfortunately, now that I've got
them home, I see that they are HVD. Does anyone have
a PCI HVD SCSI controller that they might part with
for a reasonable fee?
Anyway, the rains came at about 7:15, some tarps and
tents popped up, but a lot of guys just packed up at
that point. Peeked inside the indoor space, which
was to open at 8, looked like a run of the mill clone
show with some radio vendors thrown in... so I called
it a day. Oh well...
Has anybody ever mounted a SCSI device in a BA-123?
1. I tried to install a standard half-height 3.5" SCSI drive into a
BA-123 system (MicroVAX II). Basically, I bought a little 3.5"->5.25"
adapter, and then screwed the adaptor into the sliding base where an old
RD-54 lived. I found the solution unsatisfactory; the adaptor's screw
holes did not match up with the sliding base, and it generally feels
fragile. Is there a better way? I am envisioning some sort of "cage" which
has the form factor of a full-height 5.25" drive, with mount points for a
3.5" drive (or two). Does such a beast exist?
2. Has anybody ever installed a half-height internal CD-ROM (or tape
drive) in a BA-123 system? This would be really sweet (sure beats an
external one!), but would it mount nicely, and would it be possible to
cover up the half which isn't being used with a nice faceplate?
3. Is there a decent internal SCSI cable which can be used in a BA-123? I
only have a couple of boards in the system, so my SCSI controller is all
the way in the front of the backplane (back of the system), far from the
disks, and just barely reaches the disks. Is it possible to get one with
some slack, and still have several disk connectors?
Thanks,
Terry
For any of you that wanted to know what's it's like to live in Florida!
>FLORIDA
>
>For anyone who has ever lived or visited Florida, this is HILARIOUS !
>
>Subject: : Moving to Florida
>
>April 30th:
>Florida is fantastic! Just got here and love it already. Now this is a
>state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy
>evenings. What a place! Watched the sunset from a park lying on a
>blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.
>
>May 14th:
>Really heating up. Got to 89 today. Not a problem, I live in an
>air-conditioned home and drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to
>see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a real sun worshipper.
>
>June 5th:
>Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and
>rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing for me. NO MORE
>SHOVELING SNOW EITHER! Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
>
>July 1st:
>The temperature hasn't been below 90 all week, not even at night. Where are
>those ocean breezes we heard about, still seems hot. Getting used to it
>will take a while, I guess. I sure miss my LP collection, though. I'll
>have to remember not to leave anything made out of plastic in my car. Got
>one of those fuzzy steering wheel covers, cheaper than the burn ointment for
>my hands. I always wondered what burnt flesh smelled like.
>
>July 15th:
>Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed
>two days of work, what a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though: got
>to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
>
>July 20th:
>I miss our cat, Tabby. He snuck into the car when I left this morning. By
>the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, he'd swollen up to the size of
>a shopping bag and just as I opened the door he exploded all over $2,000
>worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids he ran away. The car now
>smells like Kibbles and poop. No more pets in this heat!
>
>July 25th:
>Ocean breezes, my ass. Hot is hot!! The home air conditioner is on the
>fritz and AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed
>to order parts. Only hope for a break in the heat would be a hurricane.
>
>July 30th:
>Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. Swatting the swamp
>mosquitoes that are as big as B-52's. $1,500 in darn house payments and we
>can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
>
>Aug 4th:
>100 degrees. Finally got the air conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and
>gets the temperature down to about 90. The electric bill is almost as much
>as the house payment. And two old lady drivers almost ran me off the road.
>I hate this state.
>
>Aug 8th:
>If another wise jerk cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to tear
>his head off. Damn heat! By the time I get to work, the radiator is
>boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like roasted
>Garfield!!
>
>Aug 10th:
>The weather report might as well be a damn recording: Hot and sunny. It's
>been too hot for two #@*& months and the weatherman says it might really
>warm up next week. And whoever came up with the statement, "it may be hot,
>but at least you don't have to shovel it" should die from heat exhaustion.
>Doesn't it ever rain in this Godforsaken place??
>
>Aug 14th:
>Welcome to Hell!!! Temperature got to 102 today. Forgot to crack the
>window and blew the windshield out of the Lincoln. The installer came to
>fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?". My wife had to spend the
>$1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail.
>
>Aug 30th:
>Worst day of the summer. I'm not leaving the house. The monsoon rains
>finally came and all they did is to make it muggier than hell and drove the
>damned roaches out of the ground. I wasn't aware they could fly! The
>Lincoln is now floating somewhere in the Caribbean with its new $500
>windshield. That does it, we're moving back to New York
>where all you have to worry about is getting mugged.
>
>I hope this state breaks in half and floats to Cuba.
Hi folks. Apologies for the way off-topic message, but this is the
gang with the most varied experience that I can think of.
Does anyone know anything about, or have docs for, a Varian M200 oil
diffusion pump? Specifically, I need to know if there's a way to
check the oil level without removing the pump from the vacuum chamber.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
FREE STUFF!
For pickup (only) in Austin, TX. I'm available any night of the
week after 6pm.
PDP stuff still left:
Two RX01 dual-8" floppy drives. David W. didnt have enough room
in his van after the 11/60 and other stuff was loaded, so they're
first-come, first-serve.
Sun stuff:
4/690MP VME cardcage and blower
6 x 2.1gig 5.25" FH HVD SCSI HDs
Lots of diff. external cables, etc
3 x rackmount drive "trays" w/power supplies
1 x holds the 6 drives above
2 x holds 3 1.3gig IPI drives
6 x 1200W power supplies for the VME cardcage (lots of extras!)
Other stuff:
Tons (6-7 at least) of older 386/486/K5-based motherboards,
RAM, older CD-ROM drives, video cards, etc. Enough parts here
to build at least 3-4 working systems, I'd say.
I've also got a custom 486 in a Bell-logo'ed custom-built rackmount
case that has/had windows 3.11 installed for some kind of CO switch
management.
The "rules":
1. No making any of this stuff into 'wall hangings'. Well,
you can do that with the PC stuff, but not the Sun or DEC
stuff. 8-)
2. You have to give it a good home or give it to someone else
who will.
3. If I dont get any takers on the VME cardcage, someone who
comes to get something else has to help me toss it into
the giant construction dumpster in the front yard. I
narrowly avoided certain Doom via Wife when David showed
up to take some of the larger PDP stuff off my hands today. 8-)
Email me if interested in anything.
Bill
--
Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
On 29 Jul 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Then again, IBM employees are supposed to wear pantyhose as well.
> It's true!
Hmmm, I wonder... does IBM have have any rules stating where employees
are supposed to wear them, or do the rules just state that one is to
wear them? There are multiple possibilities... over one's arms, head,
around one's shoulders, in one's sportscoat pocket in place of a
handkerchief, etc. Working at IBM must be rather interesting... the
more rules, the more poorly defined rules there usually are which one
can twist around to make the workplace environment more interesting.
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All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature &
rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such
http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
> >> >You forgot A/UX.
> >>
> >> Funny you should mention A/UX, I have my notebook full of original floppies
> >> sitting here by my desk waiting to have them all imaged and put on a CDR.
> >> Assuming all the floppies can be read, I plan to make a few extra CDRs.
> >
> >All my copies of A/UX came on CD. In fact, A/UX led me to buy my first
> >CDROM drive.
>
> And all I ever saw it on was tape.
I remember it being available at first on CD and tape, but I can't remember
if it was offered on floppy. I seem to remember that the V3.x release was
CD-only, but that could be my memory acting up. I remember the V3.x beta
I had was the first CDR I had seen in person.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
On July 29, R. D. Davis wrote:
> Yesterday, thanks to Tim Shoppa, I collected some 8" SMD drives: a
> couple of Fujitsu M2333 (337MB) and M2382 (1GB each!) drives and an
> Emulex SC03 controller. Its my understanding that I might not be able
> to use these large drives with an SCO2 or SC03 controller, so, I'm
> wondering what I need in order to use them with a PDP-11/73.
If you can find one, an Emulex QD32 or QD33 would be perfect for
that application. And very fast.
If you happen to get ahold of either, I have docs.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
