> Hmm, I thought that the HDs in the desktop vax's were SCSI, but RF would
> be DSSI. RZ would be scsi, right?
Yes. RZ is SCSI, RF is DSSI.
--
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Hi,
Cleaning my vt-240, I noticed that there is an "expansion" connector
inside, with enough space for a pretty big board.
Anybody out there has an idea what it was for ?
Documentation ?
cheers
OK I know it's too damned recent to be 'classic' but no bugger anywhere else
seems to have any idea about it...
I have recently got hold of an ICL Sparc Teamserver aka The Purple Peril
( http://www.corestore.org/ts.jpg )
If anyone has ever run one of these, or has a clue how the console is
supposed to work, please contact me off-list... it appears to boot but is
giving me all kinds of grief...
Thanks
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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John Honniball wrote:
>Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > That's never likely to happen. Heck, I didn't even get to
>VCF-Europe...
> >
> > The question is: would you come to VCF UK?
>
>Well, I definately would come to a VCF in the UK! Anybody else?
Although I live in the USA these days, I might just be prepared to come back
and drag out some of the Corestore machines for such an event, they're
mostly in storage in the UK still... pdp-15 anybody?
Mike
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John Honniball wrote:
>Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > That's never likely to happen. Heck, I didn't even get to
>VCF-Europe...
> >
> > The question is: would you come to VCF UK?
>
>Well, I definately would come to a VCF in the UK! Anybody else?
Although I live in the USA these days, I might just be prepared to come back
and drag out some of the Corestore machines for such an event, they're
mostly in storage in the UK still... pdp-15 anybody?
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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I have a ratty old ASR32 Baudot Telex machine (with rotary dial - too
quaint) that I would like to move out. It needs a bunch of TLC... and
someone I know wants the copyholder and pedestal, so those are spoken for.
Otherwise I'm going to part it out and junk the carcass.
I would sorta like to get my initial investment of $25 back, but the
bottom line is it's free for price of pack/ship from zip 95971 in NE Ca.
OR - you pick up, and I help load it in/on your vehicle - no charge.
Speak now or the machine dies....
Cheers
John
Ethan Dicks reminisced:
>My one and only experierience with analog computing was a dedicated
>device (no patch panel) that calculated energy reserves for the
>planet. It had an LED counter for the year and numerous dials for
>amount of driving, heating, electricity usage, etc. Physically,
I remember this! Someone brought it to our high school, circa 1979 or 1980.
It was designed to crater the planet within a limited time span, assuming
limited resources of fossil fuels would eventually expire. (Well, it had to
end eventually...). Everyone in the class played with it for a while, with
5 input consoles active at a time (so one sector might be using fossil
fuels at a horrendous rate while another was relying on nuclear...). Then
me and 4 of my friends took over at the end of the class (fortunately also
the end of the day), and coordinated our actions completely. We all slammed
tech research to the max immediately, max'd out solar, and started
carefully playing nuclear to maintain the environment at a bad but not
disastrous level while we minimized the use of fossil fuels. We lasted
about 5 times longer than anyone else had.
Yeah, if you find a url, post it! I'd like to see that booger again.
- Mark
