I realize I'm slicing and dicing an article here, and I feel silly
for doing that, but what the hell. I have a couple of comments. :)
On August 3, Heinz Wolter wrote:
> in a sidebar. ( prob this should be Cray-2 ED). The G4 is being touted as a
> "Supercomputer for the desktop" and with the performance figures of a
> Gigaflop/s (1 CPU) it is certainly up to at least 1992 supercomputer cpu
...but the vector length is so short that there's no way to sustain
that for more than a few cycles. When configured for data types
of a width comparable to Crays native 64-bit single precision, the
vector depth is a whopping TWO elements.
As much as I like the G4, dem's the facts.
And if I see ONE MORE IDIOT on eBay advertising some slow-ass Dell
Pentium crap as a "supercomputer" I'm going to hop on a plane and
open up a can of 100% pure Whup Ass on the moron.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
On August 3, wanderer wrote:
> Obviously a prank of some sort, and there even no pictures.
> Besides that, anybody who is ready to lay down such an amount of
> money should rather spend it at a mental clinic.
...or perhaps be directed to some of MY auctions. 8-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
I have the sparc/intel cd that I purchased, can I legally make iso for you?
mrbill could probably answer for us.
Phil Schilling
GCS Tech
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:09 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: SunOS (er... Solaris)
On Aug 3, 13:05, Bill Pechter wrote:
> If you can get Solaris8 to run on a Sparc2 let me know 8-).
> Unfortunately their non-commercial license for Solaris 7 doesn't
> cover use in anything other than Non Commerical stuff and their
> license for Solaris 8 (which I own) won't run on any Sparc's I have.
Is Solaris 7 still available anywhere? My CDs seem to have gone walkabout,
and it doesn't seem to be online anymore.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> on 8/2/01 9:07 AM, Douglas Quebbeman at dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com
> wrote:
> > In December 1983, I took a recent issue of some PC magazine
> > into a Radio Shack, and showed them the Radio Shack ad with
> > a picture of Windows 1.0 (or 0.75?) running on a Tandy 2000.
> > I said this is what I want. They said we have the computer
> > but we've never seen or heard of Windows. What's that?
>
> Windows 1 required a special driver disk, which had drivers for both the
> digital mouse and the Model 2000's hires graphics adapter, to run on the
> Model 2000. It is the only version of Windows that will run on the machine.
> If anyone happens to have that driver disk though, which carried Tandy part#
> 7002611, I'd be interested in obtaining a copy. To the best of my knowledge
> the driver disk was provided seperately.
Ok, count me in for one if they become available, I've
got a 2000 too!
-dq
He won't even get a bid. And if it did get a bid I guarantee you it would a
fraudulent one.
However, there is apparently an insurance scam that auction houses have to
deal with apparently where a person sells something at auction to a shill
(fake bidder) for some outrageous amount of money, then ships or somehow
"loses" the item and collects the fully insured value. (less deductible of
course).
Some more interesting Ebay madness is that some nice VAX systems are going
quite cheaply. There is a 4000/300 on Ebay for less than $20, the CPU alone
is worth that, and if it has memory too... A 4000/200 in the nice BA215
case sold recently for $60. So you see the market works as you would
expect, these things come out of the woodwork and the prices on ebay
reflect the increased availability.
--Chuck
At 02:40 PM 8/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Is it just me? What are the odds this guy gets it?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1260881309
>On Aug 3, 8:30, Sergio Pedraja Cabo wrote:
>>
>> Hello. Anybody knows of somebody that could sell or obtain
>> the two CIS (commercial instruction set) chips
>> for one PDP-11/23 PLUS ? I have the Floating Point option installed
>> and I'd like to has this option too.
>
>In my experience, they're relatively rare. I've been actively looking for
>a set for ages, and the last "spare" set I came across was about six years
>ago
:-o
> -- and someone beat me to it :-(
Really :-(
Thanks for the drink. I'll continue my search.
Greetings and Best Regards from Spain.
Sergio
On Aug 3, 13:05, Bill Pechter wrote:
> If you can get Solaris8 to run on a Sparc2 let me know 8-).
> Unfortunately their non-commercial license for Solaris 7 doesn't
> cover use in anything other than Non Commerical stuff and their
> license for Solaris 8 (which I own) won't run on any Sparc's I have.
Is Solaris 7 still available anywhere? My CDs seem to have gone walkabout,
and it doesn't seem to be online anymore.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On August 3, Heinz Wolter wrote:
> Anybody see the Cray YMP-EL on ebay today?
> The folklore goes that Woz walked into Cray's building and just asked
> to buy a Cray. Much later Seymour was heard to comment that he
> thought it was funny Apple used a Cray to design a Mac, since he
> himself used a Mac to design the next generation Crays...
>
> In the end, Apple didn't have a real use for the Cray, other than a nice
> ornament, though some say it may have been bought and used to simulate
> and design production tooling for some Apple products...
One of the photos in the Y/MP-EL sales literature is a simulation of
plastic distribution in an injection molding system. The molding is
clearly a front case component for an early Mac.
> Still, if it is ~that~ - machine - it would be quite a piece of history to
> own...
Indeed.
> There was a T-shirt that sold on ebay recently that says:
> "My other computer is a Cray"..;) Strangely enough, Apple did have
> some deal with Cray to offer Macs as front ends to Crays...
Yes, I've always wanted one of those. :)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
Hello all,
I've tried checking ebay every once in awhile for SunOS media, and
the best I've found is the occasional box of documentation or
whatever, but no media.
I was not blessed with my very own unix machines until after Solaris
had come to be popular, but I'd like very much to put SunOS on some
of my sparcs now, just for grins.
Does anyone know where one could pick up some SunOS media? I'm kind
of hoping that there is a school or corporation that has a bunch
sitting in a cabinet, or am I just pushing my luck, and most likely
they've been tossed by unknowing or uncaring personnel? Or does
one just have to get lucky and find someone with an extra set lying
around?
Thanks!
George
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http://schvin.net/
Ok, so my DECServer has to boot its image rather than run it from flash.
Not a problem, however when the system reboots it loses all of its
configuration information as far as I can tell. Is this normal? Is there no
NVRAM inside or perhaps I've got a dead battery somewhere? Alternatively,
is there some way to "upload" the configured image such that I could boot
_that_ and thus be preconfigured?
--Chuck
