test-drb March 2002

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DSQD Drives (Was: RE: Diags/Boot image for Altos 580)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> > It's not a kludge to use a HD drive to write DSQD disks. It's _designed_ > to do it. If a drive is *designed* to use a certain type of media, then of course it's not a kludge. As I originally said, match the media and the drive and live a happy life ;>) Glen 0/0

22 years, 4 months

HP LJ 2 mobo -> Apple LW 2 NT

by mythtech＠mac.com

>Chris I have 2 letter trays - looked all over for legals - nogo. Does $10 >for a letter tray (includes USPS to the C-U area) sound OK to you? I'd have >to get $12 total if you use Paypal to cover the fees or you can stay at $10 >and send me a money order. Let me know when you can. I would say the price sounds great... but I have spare letter trays already, so I don't need more. Sorry :-( -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 4 months

HP LJ 2 mobo -> Apple LW 2 NT

by mythtech＠mac.com

>I'll look and see if I have a legal - I have a box of LJ 2 and III trays, >not sure if I have legals left though. Shipping to the C-U area from here is >cheap and then a couple bucks for the tray would work. I need more space >around here anyway. Yeah if you have one that would be great. The HP had no trays when I got it. I had a spare letter try for my Apple which fits nicely (although is grey rather than brown, but who cares). Let me know if you find a legal try (or any good parts/trays) and how much you would want. Thanks! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 4 months

playing with the VAX 6460

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> Gunther Schadow wrote: > >PPS: Have your guys ever tried to build Ultrix from sources? I found >some critical pieces missing, like /usr/sys/sys/kern_lmf.c and possibly >more. Having used Ultrix maybe for a few days total (and that was perhaps five years ago) I'm probably not in the class of user that builds it from sources :-) but I'll try not to let that inhibit me from replying ... The lmf bit of the filename suggests Licence Management Facility to me. DEC never intended this as anything other than a tripwire (at least on OpenVMS) meaning that although you could fairly easily get around it, you'd have a hard time arguing in court that you just typed in something by accident! Giving away the sources would have lowered the "energy barrier" too much, so it was always dropped from the OpenVMS Source Listings distribution. AFAIK, all LMF implementations were based on the same core ideas, so it would have been hard to release the innards on any platform. Antonio

22 years, 4 months

Odd Honeywell Mouse

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> --- DAVID YOUNG <DAVIDINTEL(a)attbi.com> wrote: > > yes it's a regular mouse, 2 feet no ball > > This has to be the punchline to a really baaad joke. > > ... or the set-up to "that reminds me of girl I used to know..." :-) I'd assumed the extremely slow feed today was due to some new OFF-TOPIC filter that Jay had put in place, and thus avoided posting, as I'd hate my friends here to be depraved^H^H^H^Hived... But if so, it sill needs work... -dq

22 years, 4 months

KIM-1 & SWTPc 6800

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Over the last week I've had two different individuals contact me and offer me systems. One was a KIM-1, including all three manuals, "KIM Hints" and the classic book "First Book of KIM"...all for $25. The KIM is a Rev. G board and looks to be in really nice shape. He had rescued it from the curbside trash outside of a college dorm! The second system is a SWTPc 6800. It includes lots of documentation and the SWTPc minidisk system, as well as various FLEX disks and a few additional boards. He's also informed me that he's going to include a terminal kit that he had gotten for it. I believe he said that the kit was made by Netronics...I'd have to doublecheck that. It's costing me $50 plus shipping. I don't actually have it yet but am certainly looking forward to receiving it! Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757

22 years, 4 months

Disassembling a Vaxstation 2000

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> I've managed to get the case open, but... well, this > is rather embarassing... I can't quite seem to figure > out how to get the drive itself out. That's OK, you wouldn't beleive the trouble my PDP-11/44 CPU gave me with regards to getting the chassis out of the rack! Finally had to transport it in the rack because no one could figure out how to unrack it. I've run into some IBM gear that's like that also, it takes half of forever to figure out how to get into it. In this case isn't the HD on a sled like the BA23's and BA123's use? I think there is a tab under the drive, that you push down on then pull the HD forward. Of course my memory is fuzzy, I've not touched my VS2000 in several years. Zane

22 years, 4 months

Odd Honeywell Mouse

by DAVIDINTEL＠attbi.com

yes it's a regular mouse, 2 feet no ball

22 years, 4 months

MV-II Diags Chapter 3

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

WooHoo! Working copies of both the Maintenance & Customer diagnostic tapes! I'm almost ashamed of the way I got it done -- classic Unix "go with what you know" low-tech. I'm also not convinced the originals are reliable, but I am convinced I got true copies of them. The TKZ50-GA doesn't read the old tapes well at all, so I ended up doing the rips on the MV-II itself. The TUHS "cptape" utility, which copies each file from tape to disk and records blocksize for each file, extracted both tapes without error on the MV. So I've got the contents of the tape on disk, with 2/3 of the files having a blocksize of 80. The TUHS maketape doesn't know anything but N*512 blocksizes, so that's out, and the tape has to have a TapeMark at each file, so I can't just cat 'em all into a single file. I tried setting blocksize to 0 (variable) and running a dd loop, but the drive pukes with an "Undefined error" fairly quickly. So I just made a script that uses mt to set the blocksize every time it changes, and dd each file to tape. All 172 files. I couldn't remember how to compare file sizes in a test statement, so no loops. Bah!. It's the Kludge from Hell, but it works. Anybody with a Unix system & a TK<whatever> oughta be able to use it. The 2 tarballs are about 1.5MB each. Assuming you have a license to use it, I see no reason not to help replace your media. :^) Doc

22 years, 4 months

Paging Gary Oliver

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

Paging Gary J. Oliver... I think I tried this before, and didn't get a reply. He used to work for Alpha Omega Computer Systems, Inc. There is a gary Oliver living now near Coventry, who may be the same guy, but a bit far from his former residence. He'd posted here in '98 about a CDC 3300 simulator he was working on. If anyone knows him and/or knows how to reach him, I'd appreciate it if you caould help facilitate my contacting him. Thanks, -doug quebbeman

22 years, 4 months

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