I hear mixed messages about that. Is there someone who knows,
and not only if any, but also which version of UNIX would run?
I want to give it a shot.
Also, has anybody ever run a VAX11 in PDP mode for real? Sound
pretty wild to me to spend so much money only to not use the
virtual memory.
cheers,
-Gunther
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Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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> visit our website www.MissionPeakOptics.com for more information
Time to restrict access to subscribers only.
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> Monitors of the time, at least of the NTSC-compatible
> type, were typically equipped with PL-259 connectors
> on the rear.
Not true, at least in the video industry.
>By the time consumer video equipment became popular,
> the PL-259, which was also common in the '70's for other
> 75-ohm applications e.g. antennas and the like, had been
> replaced by the 'F' types in video hookups, since those
> were MUCH cheaper.
The PL-259 was in use primarily for carrying VHF and UHF
signals, not baseband video.
The PL259/SO259 was originally designed in the 1940's to carry
the then high resolution 3.5MHz 405 line baseband video signal.
They remained as the connector of choice, at least in europe, until
the 70's when the more compact BNC took over. Patch pannels
were, and are still, mostly Musa as they are easy to (un)plug
even when packed closely.
As I said, I may be sorry to have chimed in on this nearly
off-topic conversation, but when I see blanket statements
being made that are obviously incorrect I have a hard time
remaining silent.
Ah, ok. 8^)=
Lee.
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Now why can't anyone ever say "Hey, I have 4381, 3380, and 3880 docs to get
rid of... Want em?" It sucks owning what is essentially 3000+ pounds worth
of paperweights.
Will J
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I just got a VAXstation 3200 today for about $15... Amazingly enough, it
boots up to VMS 5.3-1 (can't log in though.) Can anyone recommend a good
guide for using VMS that's either avalible at a good book store or
(preferred) availble online?
Specs: 8 line serial card (forgot to look at the model #), TK-50
controller (didn't grab the drive, but might do that tomorrow..), 8-plane
framebuffer, 2x8M QBus memory cards, 2x760M ST-506 interface hard drives,
DELQA ethernet, KA650-B cpu card, (and that's about all I think...)
pics at http://purdueriots.com/imgs/vs3200-back-lores.jpg
and http://purdueriots.com/imgs/vs3200-front-lores.jpg
-- Pat
>While the offer to scan them was certainly noble, I really wouildn't expect
>anyone to actually do it. We're talking about perhaps 10,000 pages of
>documents here!
Assuming they're loose sheets, it can be done in a few days.
I scanned 15000 pages of HP 2100 docs last week in less than a week
working a few hours per day.
Scan cleanup and pdf conversion is the bottleneck right now.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Brown [mailto:bbrown@harper.cc.il.us]
> The batteries are supposed to keep ram intact for a SHORT duration
> power failure...20 seconds might be longer than they would
> last..especaially since
> they are probably 10 year old batteries.
> It's definetly NOT a full ups system.
Ok, when I turn the system on afterwards, all lights -- including the
battery charging light -- flash. I've assumed that this is just a
test. In that case, shouldn't the batteries need recharged, and the
battery light stay on for a while after this? It does not.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
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'
First computer used: IBM 604 & assorted peripherals
(If that counts).
If not, then a Burroughs B260.
First one owned: Original blue-trimmed 8K 2001 PET,
w/ built-in tape & chiclet keys; still have it,
with case/keyboard/memory upgrade.
mike
> How many people on this list still have their 1st computer?
> second? third?
> every computer you ever used/owned?
I've still got mine (ZX81) - fired it up last Sunday in fact :-)
It wasn't the first machine I ever used though - a few years before
I got the ZX81 one of my cousins lent my dad his MK14 for the weekend,
and I spent most of one evening typing in the "lunar lander" program
and playing that... that was my first experience of a computer.
Since then I've had various machines - Spectrum (original 48K rubber
keyboard thing, Spectrum+, Spectrum+ 128K), QL, Dragon 32, Atari ST,
Memotech MTX512, Acorn Electron, BBC, BBC Master (4 of them!), C64,
Vic-20 - the usual UK "home micro" collection I suppose.
I'm slowly accumulating machines that I've used a lot of in the past -
last week I got a VAXstation 3100 (the closest I'll come to owning an
11/785!), and I'm on the lookout for the following:
CBM 4032, Sun 3/60, Sun 4/110, Sparc IPC, HP9000/725, RS/6000,
Apollo DN300. I know where I can get an IPC and the HP, but the
other Suns, the IBM and the Commodore so far remain elusive.
There are a bunch of others that I've used, but no way would I ever
have room for them (eg Burroughs B5800(?), AT&T 3B2, PDP-11/24) :-)
As for all the PCs I've used or owned... nuff said. Although at
college I remember our hardware lecturer getting all excited about
the new thing from IBM in the corner - a "personal computer" that seemed
very over-engineered and under-spec'd - 16K memory, odd "clicky"
keyboard, long-peristence phosphor mono (green) monitor, no disks
(cassette interface only!), ... we all thought it'd never catch on
... how wrong is it possible to be :)
--
Al.
> SWEET, an ESDI controller that does MSCP. Very nice. :-)
What's even nicer is that he's got fairly big ESDI disks from the sounds of
things. The biggest I've found is 300MB, but since I'm not using ESDI any
more I don't mind.
Zane
