> I think you'll find most people on this list have computers
> with only a serial terminal.
Some of us even have Terminals that are plugged into terminal servers
instead of computers. That way they can choose which computer on the
network they connect to. What can I say, I love VT420's.
> Other than my main Linux system
> and my laptop (and excluding my wife's system and her laptop),
> everything else is connected to a terminal server.
My big thing is sharing my Monitors between systems. Right now the IBM P200
can drive 4 systems (4-way digital switch box for both video, keyboard and
mouse), the Viewsonic P815 can do 2 (dual inputs), and the Dec 17" can do
2 (dual inputs).
> I do have a VT525 that's connected to a 19" color monitor.
> That makes a great terminal.
Oh, drool! Now that sounds sweet!
Zane
On July 13, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > Some of us even have Terminals that are plugged into terminal servers
> > instead of computers. That way they can choose which computer on the
> > network they connect to. What can I say, I love VT420's.
>
> I use a DECserver 90M. I've got a handful of other DECservers,
> but I like the 90M due to its size. I'll be switching to a
> DECserver 700-16 soon, though.
I have a 700-16 here that I plan to put into service soon. Looks like
a damn nice box.
-Dave McGuire
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
>How many zeros in "desperatly"? I've heard of VAXeln; I don't
remember
>anything about a uVAX1000 in particular, but I have a foggy memory
that
>DEC did sell stripped hardware that would run VAXeln but not VMS.
It
>wasn't cheap enough to be wildly popular, ISTR. I don't think I
heard
>much of anything outside of DECUS symposia.
I think that the proper designation was the rtVAX 1000.
(Based, IIRC, on the KA620 - a cut down version
of the KA630 used in the MicroVAX II).
There were other rtVAX variants based on the
later CVAX chips but I've never particularly kept
track of them so I don't have a list.
Antonio
arcarlini(a)iee.org
On July 13, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> > Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
> >bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
> >infected us with is utterly ridiculous.
>
> Right! I have a 6-to-1 RS-232 switch with one vt320 on one side,
> and on the other sides I have 1) hp380, 2) Decstation 5000/133,
> 3) Vaxstation 2000, 4) and 5) misc. 68hc11 boards...
>
> Saves a lot of space :-) .
Very cool!
-Dave McGuire
On July 13, Brian Knittel wrote:
> Photos I saw of the F880 look just like my drive. That's
> promising but superficial. Does anyone know the difference
> between the Cipher C880 and the F880 series? Anybody
> have any detailed info on either drive?
I believe I have a service manual for the F880...want me to go dig
for it?
-Dave McGuire
Here's a chap in Bristol, England, with various PC bits to give away.
Please reply to original sender.
Reply-to: <jbryant(a)iee.org>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:08:38 +0200
From: "James M. BRYANT, G4CLF" <jbryant(a)iee.org>
Subject: Re: Old PCs in Bristol - England
I have the following:-
Compaq Deskpro 386 (forget how big the hard drive is)
IBM PC-XT
3 Keyboards
2 13" Colour monitors
1 13" Green monitor
386 Twinhead B&W notebook, PSU and mouse
Victor AT B&W Laptop & PSU - twin 720 Kbyte floppies, no hard drive
16-bit Sound card - unused
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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On July 13, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > Ahh, sanity! Bravo! The idea that "every computer must have a
> > bitmapped display, a keyboard, and a mouse" that the PeeCee world has
> > infected us with is utterly ridiculous.
>
> I think you'll find most people on this list have computers
> with only a serial terminal. Other than my main Linux system
How refreshing. The next time I see a stack of Suns in a computer
room with a monitor/keyboard/mouse on a KVM switch, I'm going to throw
up.
> and my laptop (and excluding my wife's system and her laptop),
> everything else is connected to a terminal server.
Excellent! I'm about to (FINALLY) take that step myself.
> I do have a VT525 that's connected to a 19" color monitor.
> That makes a great terminal.
Cool!
-Dave McGuire
> Plays Tempest and Star Trek very well under MAME.
The ROM for TEMPEST is available, and there's an
emulator???
I've been making do with ARASHI on the Mac for
10 years, and I coulda had the real thing?
Any links?
-dq
> I've got the Ancient Unix license... didn't know Ultrix-32 was
> available there.
>
> Time to check the PUPS archive (actually, first get VAX/VMS up then
> worry about the Unix on the box).
>
> Great
>
> Bill
>
Has been for about a year, see my other post for a rundown of what's there
(not as much as I expected). Besides, as I *always* say, VAX/VMS is
preferable. This is of course in part because I find UNIX on hardware older
than about a Sparc 10 painful.
Zane
> Does anyone have documentation and/or cabling and interface info (physical
> and/or software) for this drive? Or know of a scanned or other online
> reference for it? From what I read, Seagate ate Connor ate Archive ate
Cipher
> and there's nothing left.
At one time, there was a college with a lab who had a Cipher F880 and
had a PDF of the maintenance manual... I downloaded it, but seem to
have lost the PDF. All I can find is the printed copy. This is maybe
a different drive, but I'd be shocked if the interface wasn't either
SCSI or Pertec.
hth,
-doug q
