On January 28, John Allain wrote:
> Ciprico Tapemaster Pertec tape controller.
> I don't know what bus it is, VME or whatever
> but here's a details:
> 6 1/2" x 12" overall
> 43 pads at 4mm each
> a 1+ inch space, then
> 30 pads at 0.1 inch each.
>
> Doesn't fit anything I have so it's yours for shipping.
FYI, this is a Multibus-I card. It was commonly used in Sun-2
systems, and some older Sun-3 systems with VME<->Multibus adapters.
-Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Sell [mailto:msell@ontimesupport.com]
> Oh! And don't forget - requires you to shut off other less critical
> electrical applicances in the house, things like
> "refrigerators" and "air
> conditioners"......
>
> : )
>
> Sorry, this was *way* too much fun......
... and even on-topic. :)
How about:
Your handheld electronic organizer has more RAM...
There are enough light-generating components on the system to allow
one to read comfortably in an otherwise dark room.
You must wait until winter to run it, and open the windows to cool
the room off (since you can't run the air conditioner at the same
time.
The boards' form factor is something on the order of a complete
"large" modern desktop system.
Chris
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Oh, I've spoken to the good folks at Encompass and Montagar. (No-one directly
at Compaq has ever replied to my emails.) There is apparently an Intellectual
property issue that prevents them from including the old DEC Lisp in the free
list. It also has to do with the fact that DEC stopped shipping the product in
1993. Hence, I'm trying to see if I can find someone with the old piece of
paper so that I could convince Compaq to let me transfer the license to me.
I'm just a nut who would like to legally run some antique software.
As for faking the license, I don't know of anyway to hack out the PAK system...
> William,
>
> Is http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/ and the list of products your
> problem? - Indeed, I cannot see LISP there, but they won't want you to
> fake a license in order to make the software run, will they? ;-)
>
> Did you talk to them and mention that several other programming
> languages are part of the hobbyist program?
>
> Andreas
>
> William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> >
> > Longshot, but someone here might have one or know where to find one.
(snip)
> - --
> Andreas Freiherr
> Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
> http://www.vishay.com
William
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > It's working guys. Thanks a lot for all of your help.
> > In the interest of public information:
> > The BNC connectors do, indeed, carry composite video.
> Can THIS finally put to rest the assertion that BNCs were not used for
> video??
Well, you don't have to convince me. ;)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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On January 28, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> I was under the impression that big systems usually had casters. Don't
> the big Vax's have wheels? Vax 6000, 7000, and 8000 series?
They certainly do.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com]
> I was under the impression that casters were only for very lightweight
> stuff that was intended to be movable by one person without a
> forklift, or
> even a dolly.
You're right. That should have been "at least" casters. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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I'm restoring some pre-TTL DEC stuff (R and W series logic) and I need
a handful of front panel bulbs. Unlike the later bulbs with a plastic
base and strong wires to solder to the PCB or to plug into socket pins,
these are like a kernel of corn, with two fine wires coming out of the
glass envelope at a slight angle with no supports of any kind.
Some of the bulbs have burned-out filiaments. Many of the ones I need
to replace have broken wires externally. I am going to attempt to
solder new wires to the stub, but I don't expect the attempt to be an
overwhelming success. I might try a harder solder so that when I put
them back in the frontpanel PCB, they won't give way when I put enough
heat on the other end to install them.
About all I know about these bulbs is that they are fed a nominal 12VDC
>from the W-series driver boards. The front panel itself is literally just
a PCB and a bunch of bulbs; no active circuits (unlike, say, the front
panel of a PDP-8/L). Testing should be easy - feed 12VDC at a few mA
to each set of fingers and check the bulbs, one by one.
If DEC was underfeeding these bulbs to extend their life, I would expect
that the bulb should be rated at 14V-16V. I measured slightly over 12VDC
in circuit, but well within a 5% tolerance.
I have checked the online manuals I could find, but no mention is made
of the nature of the bulbs for 1966/1967-era DEC equipment. Any ideas?
-ethan
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Oh! And don't forget - requires you to shut off other less critical
electrical applicances in the house, things like "refrigerators" and "air
conditioners"......
: )
Sorry, this was *way* too much fun......
- Matt
At 11:56 AM 1/28/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Sell [mailto:msell@ontimesupport.com]
>
> > Additional bonus points awarded if the only boot mechanism
> > was a 9-track
> > tape drive that required you to disconnect your dryer as part of the
> > boot-up process.......
>
>Even more if it requires some manual intervention in octal before the
>boot process can begin. :)
>
>Chris
>
>
>Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
>Amdocs - Champaign, IL
>
>/usr/bin/perl -e '
>print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
>'
>
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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.
Searching though the net yielding the following hack:
http://www.lpc.ufri.br/~dmendes/new_page_1.htm (use altavista to
translate from Portugese)
But he feeds the same signal to both LCDs thus stereo is lost. Any
comments?
Tony??
Ram
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