On January 29, Gunther Schadow wrote:
> I am happy to announce my new baby: thanks to Jon Auringer of
> Astronautics and Merle Pierce of RICM, I have now a VAX 11/780
> in my garage. Nice cabinet, with UNIBUS extension and a TE16
> drive (looks nice but will I ever sacrifice a 25A circuit just
> for it?).
Oh My. I *really* like TE16 drives. They'll run on much less than
a 25A circuit, though...Years ago, I ran a TE16 and a PDP11/34a with
two RL01s on a 15A circuit. It was tight, but it ran.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
On January 28, Tothwolf wrote:
> > Watch it - IBM still sells stuff like this, and might get angry.
> > Remember, the S/370 architecture is still very much in use today.
>
> Really? These seem to be ancient, and seem to have been well taken care
> of. I'll check them later and see what their dates were. I can't imagine
> them still being in print :)
Their current mainframe architecture is based on, and largely
compatible with, the S/370 architecture. And there are a LOT of very
old actual S/370s still in use.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Hi all
While cleaning up and tossing stuff I found a Micron Exceed video card for
MAC Se/30.
This was gonna go into garbage...but I looked it up and saw that it could be
considered rare (...) and perhaps I should not thrash it and get it to
someone who can appreciate it.
I am not a big ebay-er seller or buyer, so I am offering it here. Trade
offers, no $. I saw these going for $60 to $500 depending on model (!!???)
I am looking for SGI and SUN equip...
Its model no 306-48. Searching www says its for 640 x 480 external VGA on a
Se/30 also works on a IIsi (?).
I have the card only, not the cable or connector for the monitor but the
connector is a 6 X 2 pin common IDC connector and it would be easy to make a
cable...
Card is untested but it looks fine...I can send you a pic...I remember
sticking it a Se30 way back and computer worked but did not test card video
output...
Contact me by email.
Claude
http://computer_collector.tripod.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Chase [mailto:vaxzilla@jarai.org]
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> > Hell, *everything* I do is fast -- Winders & Linux!
> [[ahem... I have a
> > dual-processor Athlon MP 1600+ -- dual SCSI, dual LAN,
> etc... so I realize
> > this isn't a fair fight... ;-) ]]
> You're not gonna impress anyone on this list with that candy-pants
> quiche-eating system. You can start to get our attention by get a
> computer that weighs more than you. Or barring that, we'll respect
> you more if your system doesn't have floating point instructions,
> or an integer divide, or even an integer multiply.
Hear Hear. Though, I may listen when Athlons have casters and a respectable console firmware with "deposit" and "examine" commands, at least. Bonus points if you can't get them to run windows should your life depend on it.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
Ok, I admit it's a shameless ad. I'm sending it here because I know some of you are into the older HP calculators.
I've put the magnetic card reader (Can it write as well?) for an HP-41C up on Ebay. Link here if you're interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1327909730
Thanks for putting up with my occasional ads.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
On January 28, Doc wrote:
> > > > > Yup, that's it! Anyone claimed it yet? I'd like it for my RT.
> > > > > I think, therefore I am dangerous
> >
> > > > Well, I fired off an email asking for it Saturday, and haven't heard
> > > > back. So, I hope *I* got first dibs....
> >
> > > Me too. We could all meet somewhere and fight for it. :)
> >
> > Can I put money on the fight so I can buy it from the winner?
>
> So that's 4 of us that have functional RT's but no meese, right? I
> have to assume you guys got keyboards, since the docs say the beast
> won't boot to a serial terminal.
Yup, I have a keyboard.
> The question, since I'm pretty ignorant of X11-pre-R6, is if I install
> the X11 & AIXWindows packages, will the RT speak XDMCP to a Linux or
> NetBSD X-terminal? Or heck, even my X-Station 150?
> Inquiring minds gotta know. I'm not loadin all that krap without
> either a mouse or remote access to the AIXWindows desktop. I'm
> *dreaming* of 5.25" floppies.
I'd be surprised if it didn't work. XDMCP has been around a
while...I don't remember what release of X it made its debut in, but I
was running XDMCP with X-terminals (Sun3/50s and XKernel) nearly ten
years ago...RTs weren't nearly so old then. I'll be at least some
useful X can be built on an RT, depending on the OS. Probably X11R4.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
> I started internal medicine rotation at the Loma Linda VA Hospital today
> and noted that the entire place is crawling with WinTerms (by Wyse, no less),
> running WinCE, connected via Citrix to a Win2K Advanced Server host. There
> are only a few "real" PCs there -- in fact, I think the Macs might outnumber
> them.
On a slightly related note, has anyone seen a VNC Terminal yet? I got an
add for them a while back. While they're basically the same thing as a
WinTerm, they strike me as being more usable as VNC is better supported than
WinFrame.
> Before all of you cry off-topic, doesn't it seem odd to anyone we're now
> full circle and back to low-power terminals connected to a "mainframe," now
> that corporate America has gotten off its fat client kick?
Where I work PC's are basically used as X-Terminals that can run office
apps if needed. If I understand this .NET thing (doubtful), it sounds to me
like they're heading even closer to a Mainframe type style of computing.
Zane
> From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
> > 1st question -- found some info in the 2nd manual under "programming
data"
> > (I was looking for *hardware" data!):
>
> Well, I'd call it programming data. Hardware data would be the
> schematics, how the signals are used, and so on...
Okay, I'll grant you that bit of nomenclature ;>)
I also managed to learn (God bless the Google Usenet archives!): lowest
number (0E8 and 0EC) are the data ports, and the control ports are (data
port + 1).
> > 2661 Serial A (Printer Port) 0E8-0EB
> > 2661 Serial B (Modem Port) 0EC-0EF
> > Hey -- I'll bet Tony knows!
>
> Well, not off the top of my head I don't. But I do have a 2661
datasheet...
Why am I not surprised?
> OK, there are 4 8 bit locations in the chip. That's why it takes up 4 I/O
> addresses. I'll give the states of the pins on the chip to access all the
> internal registers, and you'll have to figure out how to use them.
> Conventionally, the A0 pin on the chip is connected to the lowest address
> line in the machine, and so on, but that's not definite. So you need to
> find schematics, and so on.
Got 'em!
>
> Anyway, the states are :
[snip]
> I am going to assume you're not going to be attempting to use synchronous
> modes
Correct assumption, it's asynch. You may recall that this project began
after I was (unsuccessfully) attacked by virii four times during December.
I want to use the Z-100 to send, retrieve, and read my email. Since my ISP
doesn't provide shell accounts, I have to write code to deal with PPP and
TCP/IP (also POP3 and SMTP, but those are cake), and all of this (including
the OS) has to fit in 192Kb RAM.
> That should get you started!
>
> -tony
Yes, it *will* get me started -- thanks a million!
Glen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > Hear Hear. Though, I may listen when Athlons have casters and a
> > respectable console firmware with "deposit" and "examine" commands,
> > at least. Bonus points if you can't get them to run windows should
> > your life depend on it.
> Does it count if you can never remember your W2k password?
> Seems like
> I have to reinstall every time i boot to Windows. Wait.
> *Everybody* has
> to do that.
Heh -- No, but maybe you should get extra points for pointing out the
obvious, there ;)
I'm pretty sure your RT counts on at least the point of having a proper
system monitor, though. :) Honestly, I don't have many machines with
wheels, myself.... I have two now, and a few that _should_ have wheels,
but don't, which may also count... Gotta get one of those nice BA-123s
for one of my MicroVAXen.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
On Jan 28, 13:28, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I picked up a VFX1 virtual reality headset from ebay at a killer price.
> Now the problem with the VFX1 is that the interface card is limited to
> only 640x480x256 colors, whereas the VFX1 helmet can run in 16bit or
> truecolor. To get stereoscopic mode, the VFX1 uses interlaced video to
> send
> even lines to one LCD and odd lines to the other LCD. What would it
> take to
> tap the VGA output and somehow determine which lines are even and which
> lines
> are odd and feed it to the helment directly? This is similar to the way
> a TV works.
This is very similar to the way LCD shutter glasses like CrystalEyes work.
Try a web search for that?
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