test-drb May 2002

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by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> I've got a couple of CD-R v7.2 sets, and haven't had a problem booting >from them on my RRD42. But Roxio, on my Spousal Equivalent's Windows >box, hurled trying to dupe the original. I used dd. I believe Roxio (EZ CD Creator, as was) insists that the initial 64 (?) blocks (which ISO9660 deliberately leaves undefined) must be zero (or some fixed values) and gets upset when they are not. Almost anything else will happily blindly copy a CD even if it cannot interpret the contents (e.g. Gear and CDR-Win both seem fine with creating OpenVMS CDs). Antonio

22 years, 1 month

Looking for documentation/software for a 32032 based coprocessor card man...

by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 5/30/02 12:35:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bernd(a)kopriva.de writes: > it's not a SPARC card (such cards have been produced some years after my > card), it's a card > containing a National Semicoductor NS32032. The card maybe named Opus > Sys/32 (or something > like that, there have been some different versions with 32032 and 32332 > processors). What bus is the card for or is it standalone? I had some Opus cards for an ISA bus but they were based on the 88000 chipset, not the 32032. Paxton Astoria, OR

22 years, 1 month

Looking for documentation/software for a 32032 based coprocessor card manufactured by Opus

by bernd＠kopriva.de

Today, i got a Opus coprocessor card ... ... it includes a 32032-10 processor and 2 MB Ram. Is there any documentation available or maybe some software (there must have been even a Unix implementation) to get the card up and running ? Thanks Bernd Bernd Kopriva Phone: ++49-7195-179452 Weilerstr. 24 E-Mail: bernd(a)kopriva.de D-71397 Leutenbach Germany

22 years, 1 month

Call Me Crazy Anytime You Want

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

I've been trying to get a clue what I'm talking about, but there are just too many unrelated hits on Google. I was at a company barbeque Sunday and my boss was busting on me, telling a co-worker I heat my house with my computer collection. When he mentioned the PDP-11, Nici looks over at her cousin and says "He'd fall in LOVE with that Prime..." Evidently, their family has one, in storage in Oregon. She has no idea what model it is, but describes it as being waist-high, "deep as a regular rack", and 7 or 8 feet long. So roughly 36"x30"x84". The next time she goes home to Oregon, the Prime is coming home to Papa. :) Probably July or August. Woohoo! Doc

22 years, 1 month

Dual-booting my DEC 4000-710 at last!

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>One problem... we tried to put a CD-R of the AXP/VMS 6.1 disc into >the RRD42 and it didn't like it. Has anyone else had any experience >with DEC CD-ROM drives and burned media? Do I need to get a different >drive here? Will a Sun-compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive work in place >of an RRD42? (in case the 512 byte/2048 byte sector thing is an >issue). I have the same problems with an RRD42 here. Two RRD43s and a TOSHIBA XM-3401TA all work well. My RRD44 spat out a CD-R when I tried it just now (but that may be a bad CD-R). I suspect it's an age thing - an RRD46 would probably be fine. Antonio

22 years, 1 month

A couple of firsts for me (Commodore)

by fernande＠internet1.net

Well, a friend whose moving was digging through his attic and found the families old Commodore 128. This is the first time a friend has ever given me an old computer, I think. It's also the first Commodore in my collection. I had sort of been avoiding Commodores since my only experience with them was with my old Vic 20. I had fun with it, but I wished it had been an Apple //e..... that's what I really wanted. I eventually got an Apple //e and used them in school, too. I got the C128, and a 1581 floppy drive. No monitor and no software, unfortunetly. The other day, I saw a Commodore monitor at Goodwill, along with another model floppy drive. I think I may go pick those up tomorrow. Does this have an OS in Rom, or does it need a "boot" disk like an Apple //? I like the slim design, although and internal power supply would have been nice. I think I like the was the Apple //'s are built, better. The C128 was kind of difficult to disassemble. I actually had to use a soldering iron..... something I've never done while disassembling a computer. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

22 years, 1 month

Need some DEC lk461 keyboards

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Anyone have 2-3 they could be parted from? -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

22 years, 1 month

Anyone Care About RT-11

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

In regard to the Freeware CDs: Due to other priorities, I have not yet been able to finish the verification tasks that I feel are needed to ensure that I am producing correct images. However, eventually I will be making some copies of the CD images from: ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/cd-images/ http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/ http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/ http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RSX-11/ that I have downloaded and wish to offload from my hard disk drive. I have verified each of the 2 RSX-11 and the 1 RT-11 images against the MD5 values in the file MD5SUMS and they are the same. In addition, after I copy the image on my hard drive to the CD, I will verify them against their respective images in their hard drive files. To do so, I will be using RT-11 and BINCOM (with some of my own modifications which allows me to also verify block 65535 at the end of each RT-11 partition). Since there are a maximum of 20 RT-11 partitions on each CD and each BINCOM run takes me less than 30 seconds, the whole comparison can be done in less than 10 minutes - which will probably be about the length of time it takes to make the CD copy in the first place. Since there might be a number of individuals who can't download at a reasonable speed (even with DSL it takes about 3 hours each at about 30 KBytes per second as compared with about 3 KBytes per second on a dial up line), I am prepared to make additional copies (Tim Shoppa no longer seems to have the time to do so) and make them available at my cost of about $ US 4.00 (for media, label, envelope and shipping carton - the media portion is less than a third of that total) plus postage which seems to be about $ US 1.00 to the US. A second CD will probably be about another $ US 3.00 if requested while all three should be about $ US 10.00 for the set. I have yet to verify these prices to be sure that they cover my costs, but I am 99% sure they should be adequate. Note that the images at Tim's site are ".bz2" files while the images at classiccmp are ".gz" images. For myself (Windows 98 and Netscape 4.78) DOES NOT WORK, but Carlos Murillo sent me a Windows 98 version of wget which does work, I suppose on any file. By the way, I tried to hold the SHIFT key down while I was clicking my way through the download procedures of the ".gz" files under Netscape and that did not help. Note that the images at the classiccmp site are ".gz" files, so they are slightly larger. Since I did my original download >from the full size images, I did not have a problem with expanding - I used WinZip under Windows 98. If you need help and are running Windows 98 or a compatible OS, I can send you copies of both "bzip2.exe" and "MD5.exe", but not for others OSs. For other OSs (and Windows 98) for bzip2 programs, see: http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ and click on either: PC, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP PC, Windows 95/98/NT/2000. for bzip2.exe - I was advised to use the second older version and did - it worked fine under Windows 98. For MD5 programs, see either: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/crypto/md5/ http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ I obtained my MD5 programs at the first site, but it no longer seems active. Hopefully, it will be back soon. By the way, for myself, I would VERY much appreciate being in touch with all individuals who have a copy of the RT-11 Freeware CD V2.0 so that we might exchange information about RT-11. Tim Shoppa felt that he might be violating privacy concerns if he made the names, of those who ordered the CD, available. I don't see it that way, so if you want your name to be known along with the other individuals (or not as the case may be - i.e. restrict that you have a copy of the RT-11 CD to ONLY specified individuals such as possibly just myself) so that you can receive interesting information about new developments in RT-11 and the status of the operating system, then PLEASE contact me so that we can share information. Also state if you want to be known to the entire group of just to specified individuals such as myself. PLUS, as for TSX-PLUS, I am going to try again to knock at the door of S&H to see what they may consider for hobby users. Some of you have already expressed an interest in the CDs. I hope that I have sent a personal copy of this post. If I somehow missed you, please send me your request again. For those users who receive a personal copy of this e-mail, you are already on my list. I will send you a mailing address when I am ready to burn the CDs. Please reply if you are still interested. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

22 years, 1 month

Remex Paper Tape Unit

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

22 years, 1 month

Anyone knows how to make CI cable (a kind of BNC cable)?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, my CI cables are too long for my little basement computer room. I get all tangled up in the coils. OTOH I need a few more cables. So, how hard will it be to just cut the cables in half and mount new connectors? This cable is very similar to thick wire ethernet, but not the same. Does it require special tools? regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

22 years, 1 month

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