"decsystem10 INTRODUCTION TO TECO (TEXT EDITOR AND CORRECTOR)"
manual now online. JPEGs, 100dpi; I'll be redoing it later with
TIFFs and 300dpi so you can reprint it if wanted. I also have the
"decsystem10 TECO" manual (about 3x as thick) here, that will be
scanned in the next couple of weeks, if nobody has it already.
http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/teco
(yes, I know the text is grey instead of black; working on fixing that
for the re-scan)
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
On February 4, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> > I think I took a part-time job in Hell today. A non-profit corp who
> > funds its computers-for-children program by "salvaging" donated
> > equipment. That means selling most of it by the pound. I'll be working
> > for trade, for a while.
>
> I want:
>
> > 1 Sun 2/120 system unit. Looks intact.
Ya gotta be fast, man...FAST!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
I haven't seen this here yet, so I am forwarding it. I expect at least
*someone* here will be interested.
PB Schechter
Standard Disclaimer: I am merely the messenger; I have no knowledge of,
nor interest (financial) in, this equipment.
Q-bus equipment up for bids, potentially free.
I have a moderately sized lot of Q-bus equipment up for grabs.
Before you get all excited, I have some statements to make up-front:
1.) This equipment is being offered as a LOT. It will not be pieced-out.
Equipment must be picked up in Las Vegas. I do NOT have time to box/ship
this stuff.
Boards, and small components are in boxes. Bigger items are not.
Since this is being offered as a lot, ALL the equipment must be removed.
There is enough equipment to fill a 10' U-Haul mover.
2.) It has been stored in a garage for the last 4 years.
Temperatures varied from 50 - 100 degrees,
with a humidity range of 10 to 25%.
Equipment has NOT been powered up during this time.
3.) All of the major equipment (drives, boards, etc.)
were working at some point, but there are no guarantees
as to their operability.
4.) I will accept bids on these items via e-mail, with a cut-off date of
02/22/02.
I will keep track of any interested parties, and if I don't receive any
bids,
the equipment will go to the first person that I can make arrangements
with,
to come out and pick everything up. In which case, all it will cost you
is
the time, and the truck rental.
Most of this list is from memory -- I'm sure there are things that I'm
forgetting.
Additionally, there are one or two boxes of miscellaneous pieces/parts.
Qty Item Notes
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2 6' racks, w/ PDP-11 logo No side panels, or back doors.
8" round fans on top.
2 BA23 chassis/power supply New-style internal power supply
cables, per ECO.
2 BA23 rack-mount kits
1 BA23 floor-standing enclosure Empty case only.
1 BA11 chassis/power supply 22-bit backplane. Don't know which
flavor;
could be 9275 or 9276.
1 BA11 rack-mount kit
1 Rack-mount RX50 chassis Don't remember the model number, or
which pieces/parts are actually
there.
I think the original power supply was
yanked, and a generic power supply
mounted
in the back.
1 LA180 printer. Might have the serial interface
inside,
but I'm not sure.
1 Cable for LA180 to LPV11
2 RL02 drives, w/ rails 10-meg removable pack drives. 19"
I have one set of unit number caps, 0
- 3.
I have about 5 or 6 RL cables, enough
to
daisy-chain 4 drives to controller.
2 RL01 drives, with rails 5-meg removable pack drives. 19"
1 Fujitsu Eagle 474 MB SMD drive, rack mount with
rails. 19"
1 Cipher F880 tape drive Front/auto loading 1/2" 9-track
magtape drive. 19"
2 Hitachi DK512-S drives 150MB 5.25" SMD drives.
1 Seagate 8" SMD drive Don't remember capacity; 800 meg,
maybe 1.2 gig.
In a home-brew chassis w/ power
supply.
1 Maxtor 130MB MFM drive Full height. Might be 150MB.
Unknown condition.
2 Quantum Q540 MFM drives 30MB Full height. Unknown condition.
2 Seagate ST-type drives. Half Height. At least one 10MB, one
20 or 40MB.
1 RX50 drive Full-height dual-floppy.
1 TK50 tape drive Full-height. Condition unknown.
1 TK70 tape drive Full-height. Condition unknown.
1 Generic chassis w/ 8" floppies Unknown condition. Probably not
RX02-compatible.
1 Centronics brand printer Wide carriage dot-matrix w/ lcd front
panel.
1 LA12 portable terminal Serial port works, not sure about the
modems.
2 VT220 terminals Possibly 3. . . w/ keyboards
1 IBM video terminal Unknown model (3150?) Does VT100
emulation.
1 VT50 terminal, w/ printer It's a classic. ;-)
Boards:
2 KDJ11 CPU's 11/73's, quad, w/ boot & serial
ports.
18Mhz crystals installed, if I
remember right.
1 KDF11 CPU 11/23, quad, w/ boot & serial ports.
2 Camminton CMV504 2-meg dual-height q-bus memory.
1 Camminton CMV4000 4-meg quad-height q-bus memory.
1 MSV11-PK (?) 512K quad-height q-bus memory.
2 DELQA Q-bus ethernet controllers.
1 LPV11 Probably 2. Q-bus line printer
controller(s).
1 Generic DLV11-J Possibly 2.
1 RQDX3 MFM controller.
1 RQDX2 MFM controller.
1 RQDXE Q-bus RQDX drive expander card.
1 QD32 Dual-height SMD controller.
1 DQ248 Quad-height, 4-drive SMD-E
controller.
1 Tape controller It's either a DQ132 or a TC03.
1 DEC Terminal server 200 or 200 MC -- requires MOP loader.
1 Emulex CS02 Multiplexer With 16-port panel and cables.
1 TQK50 controller For TK50 cartridge tape drive.
1 TQK70 controller For TK70 cartridge tape drive.
1 RLV21 controller Possibly 2. For RL01/RL02 drives.
This is all that pops to mind right now, but I know there's a bunch more
out there. I have covered all the important items, though.
I'm THINKING that I had a dual 11/73 board out there, as well as
an Emulex QD01/D MFM controller, but these might only exist in my imagination.
I know I have a few boxes of media out there (tapes, RL01/RL02 packs), but I
have
no idea what condition they're in at this point.
There are also a few boxes of DEC magazines, and a box of some sort of
UNIBUS hardware out there -- mostly DZ11 boards. There should be a set
of Q-bus extension/expansion cables, for daisy-chaining backplanes.
Interested parties can reply to: TiggerLasV (Thats on aol.com)
*** do NOT reply to this message, as it will bounce. ****
Thanks again!
Tim
On February 4, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > I think he meant RLV11 or RLV12, but I would like to have one for my RL02
> > sitting in my bedroom. A cable to go from the drive to the controller
> > would also be nice, but not necessarily needed.
>
> If it's an RLV11, there's no big deal - it's a BC08 to the bracket,
> and a transition header, just like the ones on the back of the RL01/RL02
> drives. If you don't have one with the controller, you can get one
> from the back of a dead drive.
>
> ISTR the RLV12 has a custom cable from the Berg end to the RL01/RL02
> end. It _may_ be the same arrangement; it may not. It's been so long,
> I forget. I just remember using a custom cable from the back of our
> MicroVAX to the first drive, and an RL-11-style arrangement when I had
> an RLV12 at home.
I've used the same set of cables for an RL11, RLV11, and RLV12 with no
modifications. They involve a chunk of ribbon cable to the bracket
containing the transition header like the RLV11 setup that you
describe above.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
1 Shugart SA801 8" floppy drive
1 IBM 5151 AT computer
10 Reels 9 track tape - used...
1 VOXPC ISA voice synth
Free for pickup in SF bay area...
Peter Wallace
On February 4, Pat Finnegan wrote:
> A piece of QBUS backplane would be nice, if availble, along with an
> extension cable (and terminator...) Especially necessary if the RLV11/12
> expects a Q/CD instead of a Q/Q backplane.
The RLV11 requires a Q/CD backplane. The RLV12 (which is only one
board, not two like the RLV11) does not.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
>It can not run nicely, as long as there is no UNIX on it. ;-)
Once they're both running , putting Unix on one of them is the next step
- However, I only have 10Mb disks and 5.25" floppies - what's the best
way to go about this?
>What enclosure? BA23 (4? U 19" rackmount box or bigtower), BA123 (big
>deskside box), ...?
It's a 4U rack mount.
Fred Cisin wrote
> In place of current accepted sloppy terminology,
> how many remember what they were called THEN?
Most of the engineers I work with have never heard of Amphenol or Cannon,
let alone "blue range" or "red range" (popular Cannon connectors)
It's a classic chicken and egg thing. Ampenol connectors were adopted as
a "standard" connector for Centronics printer, IEEE-488 and SCSI interface,
but are often mis-named. As I don't have an Amphenol catalogue to hand,
I'm afraid I can't tell you what Amphenol's designation is for this connector.
On the subject of D-sub connectors I've sometimes come across some with
metric threaded jackscrews instead of the usual UNF thread, or is it UNC ?
Chris Leyson
Hi Guys,
I found some goodies this weekend. I went to a place that gets lots of
computer scrap and found them tearing apart a huge machine. It has three
separate chassis in it and one of them was Multibus!
I "rescued" nine Multibus cards. Four of them are Augut brand
prototyping cards. They're full of socketed ICs. These are the nice
expensive prototyping cards with the built-in IC sockets that use machined
pins and sockets. One of these even has four 2901 bit slice CPUs on it. I'd
sure like to have seen what this system was before it was scrapped.
The other five cards are Intel cards. Three of them are iSBC 286 single
board computers. One has at least four Mb of RAM and the others have at
least 1 Mb of RAM on daughterboards. They all also have iSBX cards marked
"Orbot I/O Channel (iSBX) CS". I haven't been able to find any listing of
them. They're not shown in my '86 OEM Boards Handbook. One also has an iSBX
344 Bit Bus card.
I also got one iSBC 214 Peripheral Controller Subsystem. Wahoo! NICE
card! It handles up to four SD or DD floppy drives, up to two ST 506 hard
drives and up to two QIC-02 tape drives. I'd sure like to get that on
working on one of my MDS machines! Side note: There was a 5 1/4" CDC hard
drive there. It may have worked with this controller. I'll have to go back
and pick it up too.
Finally I got one iSBC 534 Four Channel Communication Expansion Card.
Does anybody have docs for any of these cards??
I also found a NICE case with some kind of Motorola Exorbus cards in
it. I grabbed it and threw it into the car but I haven't had a chance to do
anything with it yet.
Then today, I went looking through some old catalogs and I found two
more Intel books. One is Memory Design Handbook dated 1977 and the other is
Intel System Data Catalog dated 1978. It shows the MDS 210, 220, 230 in
good detail and it has a good section about the uScope 820.
That's a pretty good haul if I do say so myself!
More later,
Joe
Yes well they ar labelled, but I don't know what it means.
What does PF(1) and PF(2) mean? And it also sais +12/24- and +12/15- ? And pin 13 and 14 dont' have a label, are they used or not?
Any help will be fine.
Roel
