test-drb March 2002

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by tony.eros＠machm.org

I set up a DEC GIGI yesterday, but I'm not sure I did it right. I connected the RGB connectors to the monitor and connected the "MONO" connector to the "Video In" port on the monitor. When I turn everything on, the GIGI's "Local", "Basic" and "L1" lamps are on and the screen paints from a solid light blue to a solid brick red. Then the screen clears, leaving a block cursor flashing at the top left corner of the screen and the "Online" lamp lit on the GIGI. But I get no response on the keyboard. Are there any GIGI owners out there with a tip as to what I'm doing wrong? Does anyone have any scanned GIGI docs? Thanks! -- Tony

24 years, 1 month

Recent Road Trip pics of stuff avalable PDX

by Innfogra＠aol.com

I was back in Portland for a few hours and visited a friend who is a secondary market dealer. He wanted to know what to do with a Sun 3/280 that I had mentioned to the list earlier and an Alpha 2100 Server he had gotten in. He also had found a couple of rare HP calculators that I had him searching for. Included are the Sun and Alpha, an Alpha 503e Personal Workstation, a HP9100B, a HP46 Desktop, The DEC InfoServer 150 I mentioned earlier and a sneak look at one of the "saved" piles The Alpha Server 2100 I am sure is working but the drives have been pulled, no sleds either. Came from the Government. I think the Alpha 503e PW is complete but I only took a picture of it as an after thought. The DEC InfoServer 150 looks complete and operational. I have the equipment to test there but not the time. I posted the pictures here: http://hometown.aol.com/innfogra/ The Alpha 503e he is planning on selling on eBay. He also wants top dollar for the HP Calculators. However I have got him to take offers from the list first. He has the ability to ship heavy items. He also does a good job shipping airport to airport on some heavy systems. I prefer to be contacted at whoagiii(a)aol.com. Things are getting busy and there are times I can't read the list for quite a while. Paxton Astoria, Oregon USA

24 years, 1 month

Symbolics 3620 screen issues

by tony.eros＠machm.org

I've seeing some screen jitters on the screen of my Symbolics 3620. The characters are sort of doubled up and horizontally offset, as if you had two copies of the same text on a pair of overhead slides, lined them up one over the other and then moved the top one about a half-character to the right. Take the whole thing, make it kind of blurry and you have the effect I see. Is this a standard sort of monitor problem that is easily fixed by tweaking some internal pot (I hope!) or is it likely some bigger problem? Does anyone have any maintenance documentation on this beast or a spare monitor they don't need? Thanks! -- Tony

24 years, 1 month

Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by zmerch＠30below.com

Rumor has it that Douglas Quebbeman may have mentioned these words: > -- and I said originally -- >> I remember seeing greenbar, pinfed *bedsheets* a long time >> ago... I wonder if any company's still making them. ;-) >If not, someone has a lot of it in stock... > >I bought a brand new box of 20lb greenbar at Office Despot >in June 2001 for $38.00. I was really talking about the bedsheets - I think they'd be a cool part of 'retro dream-computing...' and might be quite rare nowadays... I have a color lazer with serial/parallel/ethernet ports, full Postscript 2 capability, 2G SCSI hard drive, and 112Meg RAM - I can print from most any classic machine I have (some multiport, like my Tandy 200, can print on the serial & parallel interfaces... ;-) so actual greenbar paper isn't ezactly at the top of my list... The only classic machine I can't get to print is my MicroVAX 3100/m38 - and that's only because I can't get it to talk TCP/IP... :-( <sniff> Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

24 years, 1 month

Free highspeed PPT punch available..

by jos.mar＠bluewin.ch

the catch ? It's local pickup only in Zurich , Switzerland.n Its a 110 V rackmount Tally unit in good cosmetic condition, functionality unknown. Contact me offlist if interested. Jos Dreese

24 years, 1 month

PDP 7 saga

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Pardon my bad taste in replying to my own message, and the spelling error on the previous subject line. I am posting this on the list because of the broad interest and the fact that I haven't compiled a list of all interested. I will do that soon. I did not get to look at it. My meeting schedule got changed around and was not able to make connections. I did talk with people on the phone so they know there is interest. I spoke with the operator and he said that it is just "idle" at the moment. I have scheduled another appointment for April 1st or 2nd when I will be next down there. It sounds like nothing is happening immediately. Expect pictures like the ones I have posted of my recent Road trip. Paxton Astoria, OR

24 years, 1 month

HELP! RA81 power sequencing jumper, where the heck is that?

by bqt＠update.uu.se

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Gunther Schadow wrote: > Whatever. Who can tell me where this power sequencing jumper > is so that I can set it to being the first to spin up? You have two small round connectors on the back of the drive. Those are the power sequence in and out. You usually hooked all (or groups) of RA81 together with the power sequence cables, and the drives started in sequence. About 10 seconds between each drive. The first drive have a special plug in the in-socket. Johnny Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt(a)update.uu.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

24 years, 1 month

HP9133 HDAs (was Re: DSQD Drives)

by fmc＠reanimators.org

ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote (after Joe Rigdon): > > 225s and 251s are handy to keep around since they'll replace a number of > > OLD hard drives. I've used 225s to replace the dries inside of some of the > > HP HP-IB disk drives. > > The hard disks in my HP9133s _are_ ST225s. And AFAIK they're original > from HP. Sounds like a 9133D, which did have a half-height ST225 inside. The earlier 9133XVs used something full-height. -Frank McConnell

24 years, 1 month

PDP & saga

by Innfogra＠aol.com

I am posting this on the list because of the broad interest and the fact that I haven' t compiled a list of all interested. I will do that soon. I did not get to look at it. My meeting schedule got changed around and was not able to make connections. I did talk with people on the phone so they know there is interest. I spoke with the operator and he said that it is just "idle" at the moment. I have scheduled another appointment for April 1st or 2nd when I will be next down there. It sounds like nothing is happening immediately. Expect pictures like the ones I have posted of my recent Road trip. Paxton Astoria, OR

24 years, 1 month

Tek 2230 @ 2232

by mdg＠idirect.com

Hi; Question to you Tek gurus; is the 2230 a true digital scope meaning that what you see is a digitized signal or is it an analog scope that has a digital storage function that you turn ON whenever you need to capture something ?. Is the 2232 the same in that respect ? . I remember using one of them years ago at work - I could see a nice trace of 67 MHz (analog) but I could also use a digital storage function to capture a 20 kHz event. Now I need one for myself; as for the digital scopes I've found that the ones I'd accept are those with 2 Gs/sec to be able to see a series of not very repeatable periods at 80 MHz but they are a bit too expensive... .So I need a 100 MHz analog with digital storage capability at lower freq. Please respond to my E-mail adress: mdg(a)idirect.com Thanks, Art

24 years, 1 month

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