test-drb September 2001

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by dittman＠dittman.net

> > Okay, you've got a 35 VUP system (VAX 7610), a 32 VUP system (VAX 6610), > > and a 6 VUP system (VAX 8700). > Don't forget that VAX 4000 in the 19" rack (P2100253.JPG) and that nice > BA215 (P2100244.JPG behind the plotter), what ever it contains. I missed the 4000 due to the shadow and the BA215 as I didn't scroll all the way down. More nice toys. > > However, it looks like you are missing the power controllers. > And the disk, tape, ... subsytems of the 8700? > > Sridhar, Brian you both are crazy. Absolutely nuts. And I have to say > that I like people like you very much. ;-) As someone that cares for an 8820 at work, I really think the 8700 is nuts, but fun. -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net Check out the DEC Ethusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/

22 years, 11 months

Amiga archiving

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I've had great luck in the past few weeks using a new tool called 'tsgui' that can be found on Aminet and the usual Amiga-related sites. It writes an Amiga volume as an HDF file, the format now supported under emulators such as WinUAE. My remaining Amigas (an A2000/040 and an A4000/030) always had Ethernet cards with TCP/IP and NFS. Using the freeware SOSS NFS server on my PC, I can see the PC's hard disk on the Amigas. 'tsgui' wrote each volume across the network. WinUAE wants sectors and surfaces as if from an Amiga 'mountlist' in order to understand the geometry of the HDF hard file. A tool called 'MakeMountlist' made that easy when the systems (such as the A4000) didn't use old-fashioned mountlists. Once loaded into WinUAE, it easily mounted my old volumes. One tweak to the startup-sequence to map my old volume WinUAE's default volume names, and suddenly I was booting into my exact A2000/040 environment in WinUAE. WinUAE can also mount points on the PC's file system as Amiga volumes, making future archived file retrieval quite easy. - John

22 years, 11 months

Mac Plus as a webserver...

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! >Isn't the SE an 030 Mac? The Plus is only a 68000. ! ! No, the SE was an 8mhz 68000 just like the plus. The SE was ! basically a ! newer plus (it had a built in HD or 2 800k floppies, ADB, an ! expansion ! slot, and a newer ROM). Later the SE was upgraded to having the ! SuperDrive (not the NEW superdrive that apple has recycled ! the name for, ! but rather the original 1.4mb drive that could read MFS, HFS, ! DOS, and ! ProDOS) Properly known as the 'Macintosh SE FDHD'. Yep, I got one of these, running OS 6.0.7, 50MB HDD, and 4MB RAM... ! There WAS an SE/30 that was a 16mhz (33mhz?) 68030... it was ! basically an ! SE, but with the faster processor and 8 simm slots rather than 4... I ! think THAT is the Mac you are thinking of. Yeah, the SE/30 is a 68030, 16MHz; with 68882 FPU and 0.5K of L1 cache! Have two of these, OS 7.1 and 7.0.1... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 11 months

LCD repair

by sspence＠avimages.com

Don't know if you found the problem with your lcd yet but I am a tech on such and if you carefully fub the glued ribbon cables feeding into the lcd panel sometimes this corrects those lines otherwise you might get it repaired by one of the online lcd repair shops. Steven Spence

22 years, 11 months

Terminal Info

by vance＠ikickass.org

I've been looking at info on the Internet, and I have gotten confused. A lot of places say that the DEC VT525 can do color graphics, whereas some places say it can only do text. Is there a DEC color graphics (ReGIS and Sixels) terminal that can accept a PS/2 keyboard? Peace... Sridhar

22 years, 11 months

CPU design at the gate level

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Sep 21, 9:18, Alan Pearson wrote: > Unfortunately I've lost most of my college notes now, I guess I've moved > too many times :-/ I've been looking for a replacement for the Thewlis > book - can you recommend any which cover CPU logic from the basics of > how to build registers out of gates up to instruction fetching & decoding? > I'm also very keen to get hold of a book covering the bitslice processors > (29xx), any ideas? I can't imagine there's anything left in print now, but > with an author/title or ISBN I might be able to track down a second-hand > copy. Amongst my collection I have "Microprogrammed Systems Design" by J S Florentin. After some preliminaries, it explains the design of two (fictional) machines, a simple one (not unlike a PDP-8) and then a more complex one (not unlike a PDP-11) using Am2900 series and TI 74AS888/890 chips. It has a large section on the sequencers in the middle, then microprogramming, and ends up with RISC and other VLSI devices (including later AMD and TI bit slice families). It may still be in print; I'm sure I've seen copies recently. It's published by Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-54250-9 if you want to look for it. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 11 months

This week's scores.

by vance＠ikickass.org

This has been a good week. If all continues to go well, I will have procured the following hardware for the use of my buttocks: VAX 7000-610 VAX 6000-610 VAX 8700 (hopefully to eventually become n 8800) 2 VAX 4000/700A's 4 Partial VAX 4000/500's (Need chassis/backplanes) DECserver 700 VT340 (yay! finally! thanks, dave!) IBM S/390 G1 IBM 3990 ESCON-attached DASD controller IBM Shark RAMAC 2TB DASD Server IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer Apple //e w/1 Drive SGI Onyx RealityEngine2 SGI IrisVision Microchannel (!) DPT EISA Caching SCSI EISA 10/100 Ethernet 2 Kingston MCA RAM Expansion Boards Plus I got to hang out with Dave McGuire, Brian Hechinger, Brian's daughter Avalon, Jeff Hellige, and a bunch of other random cool people. Pretty good week, I think. Peace... Sridhar

22 years, 11 months

Intriguing proposal

by vance＠ikickass.org

Is it possible to put a Laserbus PCI Hose from an AlphaServer 8400 in my VAX 7000? The concept boggles the mind. Also, does anyone know where I can find TXXX XMI/BI, EXXX Laserbus, and other reference numbers for boards? Peace... Sridhar

22 years, 11 months

TRS-80 Model IV needs good home

by vcf＠vintage.org

I am in contact with a fellow near Buena Vista, Colorado, who has a TRS-80 Model IV with some system disks and manuals. He wants it to go to a good home. You pay shipping and packaging costs. He has no e-mail address and would not like to publish his phone number, so please e-mail me and I'll pass the info along to you. In the inevitable event of multiple responses, preference will go to those local to him (local being inside Colorado). Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

22 years, 11 months

Anybody have a rom image of a modern TI graphing calculator?

by strzecha＠kis.p.lodz.pl

"Blair J. Miller" wrote: > I have an 86 if you want me to create a ROM image of it... but you'll have > to instruct me on how to do it... I have the serial link cable. > > Blair > Hi I am author of TI-81, TI-85 and TI-86 drivers for MESS (http://mess.emuverse.com) multiemulator. What version of rom do you have in your TI-86 ? I was able to found only version: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6. If it is diffrent I am also interested in image of this rom. Krzysztof Strzecha

22 years, 11 months

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test-drb September 2001