test-drb July 2001

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by John.Honniball＠uwe.ac.uk

Continuing my clear-out of garage, loft and spare room: Apple Two-Page Monochrome Monitor, Family M1025Z, 100-240V, with 13W3 video input connector. No manuals, cables or info on compatibility. Don't even know if it works. Sun 19" colour monitor, HM-4119-S-AA-0 built by Hitachi, Sun part number 365-1006-01. Works with Sun-3s and the like, with four BNC video inputs. Working order. Printronix P300 dot-matrix line printer. Needs cleaning, but otherwise working. Canon laser print engine. No controller, but a direct video interface to a Sun-3 VME card (included). No driver software. MIPS R4000 case and power supply only. Size of a PC tower-case, maybe slightly larger. Diablo daisywheel printer. Missing daisywheel. Altos P-system machine, twin 8-inch floppy disk drives plus 14-inch hard disk. With boot disks. Epson PC AX 286-based PC clone. Monochrome PC screen Taxan KX-123-B. DEC TU77 reel-to-reel magtape drive. Massbus interface, with formatter for DECsystem-20 (PDP-10). Calcomp 565 digital incremental drum plotter, built in 1960s. Missing pen-holder. Personal Computer World magazines, 1984/85/86 plus a few extra copies from other years. Six Seagate ST42400ND differential SCSI hard disks. 2.1Gb capacity per drive. Compaq laptop power supply, Series 2812 for use with 2810 notebook computers. VAX power supply, model H7100B, 5V, 100A. TeleVideo terminal model TVI925. TeleVideo terminal model TVI970. Acoustic hood for silencing dot-matrix printers. With fan for ventilation. All this stuff is free (although swaps are OK!) for collection in Bristol, near the M4/M5 motorways. E-mail me directly for more info on any of these items. -- John Honniball Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk University of the West of England

23 years, 5 months

MicroVAX equipment

by ndiablo＠diablonet.net

> It's been nearly a decade since I really dealt with MicroVAXen, > but I came across a guy who has the following: > > MicroVAX 3600 > uVAX 1000 > RA81 (2) > RA90 What on earth is a uVAX 1000? I've never heard of that before. I'm rather curious to know! > and some miscellaneous cards, in four cabinets. He got them > in as part of a truckload of de-installed equipment and doesn't > have any idea what they're worth. I'm at a loss as to what to > offer for them, other than (of course) the lowest possible price. > > Any ideas on the going rate for this type of DEC equipment? In all honesty, the whole lot is really worth less than $100, unless the MicroVAX 3600 has some really nifty equipment (like a SCSI card) in it, or that uVAX 1000 is something special, as I really don't know what that is. I'm a little vague on what a RA90 is, but I know the RA81s are huge drives, and they should probably consider themselves lucky if you're willing to haul them away! > He's also got a DEC MicroServer and some VT 510's. VT510s are rather new terminals; they're not actually DEC designed. These are "technically" probably worth a little bit on the terminal market, since they're not more than a few years old (probably). On the used market, however, how much is a relatively standard terminal worth? > The guy was nice enough to give me an RL02K-DC removable > disk pack (since he didn't know what it was or what it worked > in), so he seems easy to deal with. (The disk pack did not > come with the MicroVAX stuff.) --Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net

23 years, 5 months

Collecting vs. My Wife

by lance＠costanzo.net

At 02:55 PM 7/11/01 -0700, you wrote: >>I guess that's one of the reasons I love her so >>much; she supports my computing habit (she even >>bought me my first Alpha). > >OTOH my wife says if I get the computers out of the livingroom soon she >won't kill me and scatter my bones in the desert. Thats love. She's been watching too much TV - that was a CSI plot. Get rid of the toob, use the space for pooters.

23 years, 5 months

Dynakit

by Chloe.Meacher＠dtlr.gsi.gov.uk

Hello I have a Dynakit PAS-2 Stereo Preamp, a PAS-3, a FM-3, and a Dynakit Preamp Mark II. Looking at the instructions, some of them have dates written inside by my Dad, going back to early 1960's. I am looking to sell them and I am wondering what they are worth. THanks Chloe Meacher ********************************************************************* Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions This E-mail and any files transmitted with it are private and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, the E-mail and any files have been transmitted to you in error and any copying, distribution or other use of the information contained in them is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this E-mail message amounts to a contractual or other legal commitment on the part of the Government unless confirmed by a communication signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for the DTLR. *********************************************************************

23 years, 5 months

More DEC doc scans up

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

I've put the handbooks off for a while until I can decide on how I want to do them. Until then, MACRO-11, BATCH-11, and RSTS-11 brochures: http://www.decdocs.org/docs if anybody else has more stuff like this, please let me know. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

23 years, 5 months

IBM AS/400(?) in Denver, CO

by terryf＠intersurf.com

I've got 2, 1 rode 200 miles in the back of my pickup and the other, I had shipped from LA to Baton Rouge by United Van Lines. No problems waking either one up, so I'm not too convinced of the "switch" Terry At 09:15 PM 7/11/01 -0500, you wrote: > > >The existence of the switch was in some of the manuals (the relevant >manual I seem to have chucked). I do recall that all that was required >was to call IBM for a new license, there did not seem to be anything to be >physically replaced. > >Paul > > >On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Chuck McManis wrote: > >> >> > > Are these the machines that contain a vibration switch so they can tell >> > > if they've been moved? and if so, the license becomes invalid? >> > >> >Jerome Fine replies: >> >What ever the IBM systems were that contained that feature, did >> >that mean that the original legal user could also not move his system >> >into another room? >> >> >> Of course not, legit owners had IBM field service move the hardware and >> field service replaced the vibration switch after it was moved. >> >> --Chuck >> >> > >-- >

23 years, 5 months

DEC DF108-RM

by ndiablo＠diablonet.net

As far as I know, these are probably just regular old modems, and slow ones at that (perhaps 300, 1200, 2400 baud). All the other DF devices that I have seen thus far have been modems. Like old, slow modems, they're really worth nothing unless someone is really into recreating an entirely authentic old system or has some sort of special interest in the hardware. --Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net

23 years, 5 months

IBM AS/400(?) in Denver, CO

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

At 09:47 PM 7/11/01 -0500, Paul wrote: >It could be >1) placed in the manual but never implemented >2) implemented only on certain machines (highest end 9406's or such?) The nice thing about being IBM was that they could and did do pretty much whatever they wanted to the hardware. At Sun we had a 43xx series that delayed the move of SunNET to building 14 because IBM _had_ to be the people to move the machine. Now they do insist even if there isn't anything tricky but the point in my initial response was that any type of "license assurance" devices they might employ would not be a problem for legitimate owners because the maintenance contract typically required IBM Field Service to handle any actual moves in order for the contract to stay valid. --Chuck

23 years, 5 months

IBM AS/400(?) in Denver, CO

by vaxman＠qwest.net

I was at an auction today where they had an IBM AS/400 (or AS/200?) mark not included in auction so I didn't bid on it :) If someone was motivated (Will?) they could try and run the owner to ground and see if it was going to be spit out the back end of a lease... Laters, clint PS Who besides me thinks Nascar fixed the Pepsi 400 so one of DEI or Childress racing would win it?

23 years, 5 months

DECstation 3100 drive mounting - (Was: Chassis Hardware)

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

Sridhar <vance(a)ikickass.org> wrote: > Hi. Two questions: > First of all, can the mounting platform of the VAXstation 3100 be > transplanted into a DECstation 3100? > Second, does anyone have any mounting rails for a DECstation 3100? I don't have any spares and in my experience they are hard to come by. A few years back a couple inquiries to DEC dealers brought quotes from $15 to $60 for the dang bracket. Hey, don't shoot me, I just the messenger. I did manage to find what I needed among other hobbyists at a more reasonable price. There are at least six different mounting brackets from that era for machines such as the DS3100, VS3100, DS5000, and the BA42. Here is some info that may help you get what you need. The DECstation 3100 can have one of two different mounting plates (DEC calls them pallets) for mounting drives in the CPU box. The first one I call a solid pallet. It has a solid front behind the removable front bezel and four threaded posts for mounting each drive bracket. The pallet part no. is 74-38401-01. Given this pallet, you can mount 2 RZ2x disks side by side at the front of the pallet. To mount the RZ23, the mounting bracket is part no. 74-38402-01. The RZ23 mounting holes are spaced differently than some other RZ2x drives, so there must be another bracket to mount other drives on this pallet but I don't have a part no. for it. The second one I call a cutout pallet. It has a cutout in the front panel behind the bezel and a 3 1/2 floppy can be installed there. The pallet part no. is 74-39823-01. Given this pallet, you can mount two RZ2x disks, one near the front beside the floppy drive, and one towards the back. The mounting bracket has two tabs that slip into the pallet and a knurled screw to attach it to the pallet. The part no. for one mounting bracket is 74-40133-01, and it will mount either an RZ23 or RZ25-E and possibly other drives. HTH Mike

23 years, 5 months

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test-drb July 2001