test-drb November 2002

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Data General Aviion 4000 available for pickup (melb,au)

by drido＠optushome.com.au

I've got a Data General Aviion 4000 here if anyone wants it. Must be able to pickup from the SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It's a large tower case, so it's easy enough to move but too big for me to ship. Alternatively I'll consider stripping it if you need parts. As far as I know it has 2 Motorola 88k CPUs, a 1.2GB HDD, a 525MB tape drive. If the HDD hasn't been erased it should still have DG-UX 4.32 on it. It has a multiport serial card in one of the VME slots, but I don't have the breakout box. There are a couple of catches... The NVRAM is dead. All but 1 of the SIMMs has been removed and some of the SIMM socket retaining clips were broken by whoever removed the SIMMs. The one remaining SIMM is not enough for the system to run, I get a fatal memory error on power up. It uses 80 pin SIMMs which I assume are DG specific (DEC 80 pin SIMMs will not work). I could use the HDD in another system, so if you want the HDD left intact I'd like another drive to replace it.

22 years, 1 month

Bringing up a 10 years dormant VAX 11/750

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Ahh, but Bob, cars are evil.. > I happen to know someone who got really ill this way (it was > an old car, not a computer though). Christine Strikes Again... Seriously, though... yeah, one must be careful when playing with this stuff.. although I never got electrocuted (yet..), I did once almost get splattered by a PDP-11/34a in its rack, with the rack tilting over backwards (where I was...) --f

22 years, 1 month

FW: Huge lot of DEC parts on E-pay

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

At 01:28 AM 11/8/2002 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Bruce Lane wrote: > > > Found on Usenet. The starting bid is a bit high, but perhaps listmembers > > could pool resources...? > > > > I leave it to you to decide. If I were still collecting, I'd chip in a > > bit myself. > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2068638523 > >Wow...is this seller legit? This guy is legit. I'm both sorry and happy to see this auction as I've been buying various boards and such from him at fairly reasonable prices over the last couple of years. I've known that they intended to clear out the inventory at some point, but did not know when. I'm sure that if you have any questions, he will try to answer them for you, including how much warehouse space would be required to store the inventory. --tom >I wonder if this lot would fill even Sellam's warehouse? ;) > >-Toth

22 years, 1 month

VCF East 2.0 needs some hype

by Qstieee＠aol.com

I would attend either since both are about a two hour drive from Hartford. I could also disseminate information through area ham radio groups Jeff Katz

22 years, 1 month

FW: Huge lot of DEC parts on E-pay

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>I wonder if this lot would fill even Sellam's warehouse? ;) Doubt it... if you read the auction, it notes that it is 10-12 skids worth of stuff, totalling up to 8000lbs. Megan

22 years, 1 month

Appearance on TechTV

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

Yeah, I saw that they invited you back... I look forward to it... I just caught the show again (8:30am eastern)... Megan

22 years, 1 month

Appearance on TechTV

by cb＠mythtech.net

>> well gee... maybe if I had received this BEFORE 9:15 on the 7th I could >> have taped it and dumped to MPEG for everyone. > >Blame it on the person respobsible for moderating messages from >non-subsribers :) (I sent the message from my main VCF account which is >not subscribed). Yeah, fortunatly ScreenSavers runs many many times over. I got home last night in time to catch the very end of the segment. So I set my Satallite to record the show at the 2:30am slot, and also the 8:00am slot (my satallite likes to pull the next set of TV listings around 2:30, and it doesn't seem to have the brains to know not to if you are recording... what do you want from an MS product!) If no one else posts a link to an MPEG of the clip, and my tape came out, I'll make an MPEG Saturday and post it. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 1 month

[OT] Licenses?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>Over time, I have accumulated a fair number of official DEC PAK's for >various of their software systems. Most of these were part of deals >where I got or bought some company's complete systems room inventory, >so, systems, periphs, media, manuals and licenses (lock, stock & barrel >is the expression, imsmr). > >Now.. are these licenses still valid? I can't find any date expiration >and/or software version limitation info on the PAK sheets, so, would >assume they're still valid... IANAL, but AFAIK the licences are valid only for the original company unless you get HP to say otherwise. The deal used to be that the OS and a few other "intergrated" products (clustering, decnet etc.) could be transferred with the machine on payment of a fee (300UKP sticks in my mind here ...). So my view is that you do not have the right to use those licences, unless you purchased the company itself, in which case I suspect you own everything completely. >needed. I can get a customer's RSX11MPlus license, because I will >terminate his machine (for him ;-) and move the contents over to mine. I have no idea what the situation is with RSX/RT11/RSTS ... Mentec would know. JMHO Antonio

22 years, 1 month

Did anyone else see Sellam on the Screen Savers ?

by foxnhare＠bigvalley.net

Just caught it, very well done (and not just because it had Commodores on it :-), the host was really enthused by the display and said they may have him on again some later date (probably with stuff plugged in next time). He got a chance to show off the Collectible Computers book and a mention or two of VCF. And there's an article on their site, http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3406699,00.html (sure wish I had their bandwidth!) -- 01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01001111 01000100 01001111 01010010 01000101 Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (209) 754-1363 300-14.4k bps Set your 8-bit C= rigs to sail for http://www.portcommodore.com/ 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011

22 years, 1 month

BBSs & PPP

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Thanks, John. Panix looks like a good solution, although I don't know if I can handle real live tech support ;>) Glen 0/0 ---------- > From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> > To: classiccmp <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: BBSs & PPP > Date: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:59 PM > > > > Glen, check out Panix. www.panix.com > > I am am using Pine under Unix, and I telnet into them thru my local ISP, > no PPP or other stuff required - they also have dial-ups in a good number > of cities, more near the east coast since they are in NuYawk. > > I am using VanDayke's CRT on a Thinkpad, and it has never failed me, > from living in India to living in the California Sierras, and with my > cellphone when on the road. > > One thing, though, about Panix you might want to bear in mind. When you > call them, something known as a 'human being' will answer the phone right > away, and that person will not only know what you're talking about, you > will be connected to another one of those 'human' devices, (I have never > been on hold with them, BTW) and in my few tech calls, the person helping > me knew precisely what they were talking about and gave me the complete, > correct info the first time. > > I just thought it would be only fair to warn you. > > > Cheers > > John > > >

22 years, 1 month

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test-drb November 2002