I found a Varian 402 Data Station. It's basically a Z80 machine with a
built-in CRT, 2 disk drives, and a thermal printer. It's huge.
When I fire it up, I get no activity on the CRT, but the thermal printer
goes into a self-test, pauses for a moment, then repeats. It does this
endlessly, so something must be wrong.
No activity on the disk drives either.
A Google search turned up nothing useful.
Anyone have any experience with these things?
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This response is a little late, and its only about the cuban cigarettes.
Cuban cigarettes are not better than american cigarettes. If you don't
believe me, you can order some on cigarpuff.com the two main brands are
"cohiba" and "romeo y julieta" and they both suck. Cuban cigars are far
superior than american cigars, but the same is not true of cigarettes. For
the worlds best cigarettes, go with turkish imports ( not camel, the genuine
stuff ).
Yesterday, another list member and I had a trading session. Here's what I
ended up with:
* Teletype ASR-33. It's a fixer-upper, but even if I can't get it to
work, it will make good spare parts for another tty. I love this thing.
* AT&T 3B2/EXP. This looks like a 3B2/1000. Working condition. Docs
included. I can't seem to find anything about the /EXP model in
particular. Does anyone know what's special about the /EXP?
* A few Honeywell terminals. Some may work, some probably don't.
After watching the recent thread on specialization, I think I need to
start working on converting breadth to depth. I think I'd rather have a
few near-perfectly complete systems than piles of unrelated parts. I'll
be putting some stuff up for trade soon, looking for some specific items.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
>I go to a place called "Electronics Barn" (in Bloomfield IIRC),
I'll have to go check that out... my brother lived in the Bloomfield area
for a while, so maybe he knows right where it is (if not, I will drag him
along anyway as he and I are always swapping parts, so I am sure he would
like a nice cheap source as well)
Thanks
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> Sun workstations, Kaypro IV, Xerox 820 (does anyone have 8" boot media for
> this thing?)
I should have it as well. If someone has the diagnostic disc, please keep me
in mind.
All of the manuals I had on it are up now at www.spies.com/aek/pdf/xerox/820
too.
> From: "Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker(a)mts.net>
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 03:06:06 -0600
> Subject: Re: DEC Rainbows ...
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202161252510.91051-100000(a)crash.cts.com>
>
> How would you do that ? I waited about 2 years before I finally found a
> BCC02 to connect my mono 'bow to my VR201. To build one with ribbon
> cable using the 15-pin plugs would be a lot of fiddly soldering. There's 8
> leads on each end to solder. For color to make a BCC03 that would be 12 on
> each end.
Crimp-on IDC. (Insulation Displacement Connector).
Just slide the flat cable into the connector and squeeze it all together.
Repeat for the other end, being sure that you have the orientation correct,
pin 1 to pin 1 etc.
carl
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carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Kris Kirby wrote:
> With all this talk of RS/6000s, I've become a little interested in what
> these machines can do / are capable of.
A company I used to work for used them as the foundation of their Network
Management applications. Their software would among other things, manage
the events (alarms & other messages) coming from the network devices and
manage the configuration of the network. Later versions of their software
would graphically display the configuration and status of the network
in the form of a network map. One such instance was a state wide (& state
owned) fiber network carrying voice, data, & video.
Unfortunately, the company went under in the mid 90's. As the bankruptcy
dust settled, I found out that the bank had repo'd several machines.
I contacted the bank and the loan officer said something like "Duh, I doubt
what I can resell these Unix boxes in this podunk town". With that I
made an offer on one of the RS/6000 boxes which he accepted.
So for less than 1% of its original cost, I hauled home a model 320H.
It was complete with 80mb of memory, two SCSI hard drives, an external
tape drive, network card, and 16" color monitor. It has AIX (IBM's Unix)
3.2.5 on it as well as IBM's version of X-Windows. Nobody bothered to
'clean' the disks, so it was still loaded with the company's software
as well as a then current version of Oracle DBMS.
Also at the time, I manage to scrounge a few manuals for the RS/6000
series. One has specs and setup info (drive SCSI select, etc).
If anyone needs some info, I might be able to help.
Mike
>I wish I could find stuff like this in NJ. I wish I could just find
>the SCSI tapes in NJ.
I wish I could just find a decent place in NJ to get salvaged stuff... I
am jealous of the others that have all these nice goodwill stores that
seem to have a plethora of older fun machines.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
In a message dated 2/17/2002 11:36:13 PM Central Standard Time,
pcautomation(a)mindspring.com writes:
> I purchased an IBM Server 500 series computer yesterday at a yard sale for
> only $10
That's a quite nice MCA machine! Impressive looking, would like to have one
myself. If you decide to part it out, I'd love to have the CPU complex.
I think, therefore I am dangerous
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Here's what I recently picked up:
Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special
card in the Mac?
Maynard Electronics MaxStream 60 digital cassette drive (SCSI)
Everex digital cassette drive (same as I already have but with the DC-37
cable; I still need interface card)
Sysgen Reliant-215 digital cassette drive (DC-37)
Mass Optical Storage Technology (SCSI) - it has a 3.5" slot...is this
floptical? The model is RMD-5200-S
SyQuest 270 (SCSI)
IBM 2.88MB Floppy (gotta have one of those)
Exabyte EXB-4200T DAT/DDS (SCSI)
IBM Type 3363 (SCSI) - is this WORM or MO? Also says P/N 63X4130
I definitely have digital cassette covered now. I found in my piles of
software and docs I was going through last night a complete set of
software and manuals for the Everex tape drive...sweet. I still need the
interface card.
I also found a set of tools from Flagstaff Engineering subtitled Data
Conversion Systems. The disks are labeled 1/2" Tape Utility Programs,
1/2" Tape Data Extraction and 1/2" Tape Language Interface. Haven't tried
to boot them up yet, but is any familiar with these tools?
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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