Hi folks,
Hurrah for moderated mailing lists - I hope. This may be a brief visit but
since I got broadband at home it's not so much of an issue now.
Anyway, in June '00 Hans (if he's still here) posted questions about the
Semi-Tech Pied Piper and at the time I knew where there were some but hadn't
had a chance to go get 'em. Mark Gregory also had questions since he had one
but no docs.
In the last few weeks I've been able to pick them up and was most impressed
to find that one of them was an original prototype with a serial number of
38. At this point we won't go into the fact the keyboard connector is
missing a post - it has 23 instead of 24 which causes some strange but
expected issues when the keyboard is plugged in wrongly.
I'm now in a position to answer PP related questions since I've a) got the
technical manuals, b) spent a bit of time making 1 good machine (the
prototype) out of 2 bad ones and c) got a bundle of disks I can hopefully
make images out of if my PC's 5 1/4" drive is working.
Sellam wanted pictures (nothing like being over 2 years late) so go to
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk, hit 'inhabitants' and go to the STM section.
cheers,
--
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans
I ran across an old XT clone with bus board in it instead of a true
motherboard. I have never seen an IBM PC compatible computer like this
before. Is this common? I have several XT's, but all the ones I have
ever seen had an actual motherboard. I just thought this was an
interesting machine. I have some pictures of it -
http://24.194.68.104/computerland_xt.html. Does anyone know anything
about this? Were there other PC's made like this?
BTW - I hope the page will work OK, it's on an old Pentium 166 running
Linux I use as a webserver.
Ian Primus
ian_pimus(a)yahoo.com
Version 5.5 NOS - seal is intact 5-1/4" floppies - Complete in the box !!
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I have a Intel RMX 330 that was working last I ran it (about 1992). I also have a 380 in two cabinets that worked also. I just moved my stuff in the storage locker and ran across them. I have docs and maybe disks. I also have lots of parts for 310s.
Any suggestions for starting up the 3450 Priam Hard drives that haven't run in 10 years. I would love to fire both the 330 and the 380 up. They are fully equiped. I think the 380 has a 80286 Multibus card in it.
Not sure what format the floppys are. I will see if I can find the information.
Who else in the group is into Multibus I?
Paxton
Astoria, Oregon
USA
Hi.
I got this Q/UniBus board set:
http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/qbus_1.jpg (105 kB)
http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/qbus_2.jpg (128 kB)
The first is the top card (towards CPU). I think it is QBus, as I got it
together with some other QBus / MicroVAX stuff.
On these cards are:
lots of TTL ICs and PALs
4 x TS2901 (=AMD 2901 bit slice?)
1 x 2910
1 x DEC 010B 19-14038 I 8415 (The DIP 20 with golden heat spreader)
10 x AM27S35 (Microcode PROM?)
2 x Harris D1-15530-9
2 x "Transceiver"
1 x DC/DC converter.
2 x 82S09N 8039
2 x V61C16P16
1 x 10 pin IDC connector (upper left on bottom card)
There is a cabinet kit with two BNC connectos and two blue koax cables,
labled A and B that connects to the 10 pin IDC connector. The two cards
are interconnected with two 40 pin ribbon cables.
This numbers are on the PCB:
5079322-001E
5079312-001F
5079310-001
5079320-001
What is this?
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
Ben wrote:
> > *If the answer is 'the couch' then you've lost it.
> I thought 'the wife' would be when you lost it.
Usually, getting rid of the wife doesn't make a lot of room for
new machines. There _is_, however, a good chance of ending up
with more cash to spend on 'em... :)
--fred (doing only DEC PDP-11/VAX/Networking himself..)
John Allain wrote:
> And, ultimately 'what will I have to throw out to keep it?'*
> ...
> *If the answer is 'the couch' then you've lost it.
I know several people who seem to have no problem dropping furniture
in favor of Good Iron, _provided_ the iron looks or smells good enough
for a livingroom or bedroom :)
(no, not me... I prefer the soft couch.. ;-)
--f
There used to be a comprehensive timeline of computers available online,
but I have been unable to find it. It might have been put out by Hans
Pufal, but I'm not sure. Anyone have a link to such a list?
