> From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com>
> Had a find time killing the day. My thanks to Joe and his sharp eyes;
> what he found really made my day.
You can always count on Joe to sniff out the good stuff. He's got a nose
like a bloodhound. The rest of his face doesn't look so good, either.
(Sorry, Joe, I couldn't resist that opportunity ;>)
Actually, he's even found interesting stuff in junk piles *in my own shop*
that I couldn't identify.
Glen
0/0
Of what use is a DECserver 500? What sort of processing power does it
have?
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After a few days of work, I have successfully restored and booted a
MicroPDP-11/23+. This is the first PDP-11 that I've actually restored, and
one of four that I want to get working this summer. This is also only the
second PDP-11 that I've even *used*.
Here's what the cards look like:
Backplane: H9278-A (3xQ22/CD 5xQ22/Q22)
AAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBB CCCCCCCCCC DDDDDDDDDD
1 M8189----(KDF11-BF)------------------------
2 M8067-LB-(MSV11-P)-------------------------
3 M9047---------------- SPACER-CARD----------
4 M9047---------------- M9047----------------
5 M9047---------------- M9047----------------
6 M9047---------------- M9047----------------
7 M7957----(DZV11-M)-------------------------
8 M8639-YA-(RQDX1)---------------------------
I've got another MSV11-P card that I'll stick in there as soon as I get its
jumpers changed. Per Tony's info, I did not remove any grant jumpers on the
CPU and memory cards; neither card uses the CD bus, so removal is not
necesary. Per Ethan's help, the cards have been reorganized for maximum
expansion ease.
I did have to replace the power supply and the CPU card. Them's the breaks.
It's got RT-11 5.1 and CTS-300 8.1 installed, and it boots. I've got some
playing to do!
Many thanks go out to:
- The people who run documentation websites
- Ethan Dicks and Tony Duell for help
- Jeffrey Worley for the majority of the parts
- Eric Dittman for the BA23 plastic shell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Uban [mailto:uban@ubanproductions.com]
> I guess that I just saved some more space in a landfill somewhere for
> someone elses ADF unit, because HP won't sell parts for these units.
> Imagine what HP will do with anything that Compaq managed to save from
> DEC (though I don't imagine that would be much)...
You mean anything that Compaq hasn't yet managed to kill, right?
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
Since I don't even know if this machine works yet, can I hook it up to a
TV instead of a monitor? I'd hate to go buy another monitor from
Goodwill only to find that the computer doesn't work.
The computer is still disassembled. I may start reassembly tonight,
However.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Alas, I cannot get the damned pictures to work, but if someone from the list
buys it, I really REALLY could use the HP drives! heh
Will J
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>I suppose it could just be the RA82 and the TK?? drive but maybe its a whole
>system... Not that I'm going to Virgina to find out...
Without seeing the inside, you cannot
be sure. It's certainly a MicroVAX III
enclosure with an RA drive. There's
no guarantee that the innards have
not been gutted or that the disk works.
I guess shipping will cost much more
than $35 ...
Antonio
...you plug a quad-width board into a Q/CD slot, and the board has its grant
enable jumpers in place? Is there any chance that this would kill the board?
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You may need to remove some bugs first.
Ok, I was feeling brave so I stuck power into the sucker and turned it on..
no magic smoke or burnt smell, lol, but I'm wondering if its normal for the
extend light and the rox of lights for the registers yo light up and stay
lit up.
Will J
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At 04:40 PM 5/6/2002 -0500, Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> wrote:
>Not required, but just for information, Mac pathnames are
>traditionally colon-separated in a similar manner to Amiga
>paths.
Huh? Amiga volume names ended in colon "DH0:" but
the folder names weren't separated by colons in a path string.
I can't remember an instance where a Mac application allowed the
user to enter the colons, although they were used internally, and
you could use them in some developer tools that gave command
lines or operated on "makefile"s.
- John