Still plugging away of a TTL style cpu in a FPGA I have found some terminals
localy. How ever I am still looking for a serial RS232 mass storage device
in Canada that is not tacky looking like a old Pee-Cee. For now I am using a
old 486 with a serial program to download bootstrap programs but looking around
since summer is a good time to collect stuff. Baud rate of 300 or better would
be nice.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
From: bmeyygoogle(a)bmegroup.com (Brad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: Old vaxes available
Date: 21 Jul 2002 08:49:04 -0700
I have two older vaxes: one microvax 2000 and the other maybe a little older.
These are available at very low cost or free to a worthy cause.
Please email me if you are interested.
I would prefer not to throw them out.
I am in the Philly suburbs.
Thanks,
Brad
I picked up a load of old software the other day and found a copy of Lotus 123 v 1A for the Wang Proessional PC. It's in the original boxed set and is like new but it's missing a couple of the disks. The Tutorial disk and Utility disk are there but the others are missing. If anyone wants it I'd like to swap it for MS-DOS version or a CPM version (if there is such a thing) as long as they're in the same condition. Again this one is in perfect condition and is as good as new with no marks, tears, wear, etc. If interested, contact me directly.
Joe
Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I once attempted to repair one of HP's HP-IB hard drives used a
> Vertex drive internally. I THINK it was a V160 but I'm not sure now.
> I never did find a replacement that would work. IIRC I tried other
> brand drives but I couldn't LL format the new drive with the normal
> user stuff from HP so I don't know if the replacement drives were
> incompatible or ?? or if the replacements failed due to my inability
> to LL format them.
Part of the problem is that the HP controller in the drive expects to
see a high-level format on the drive. Back around HP-UX 7.0 I found
some arguments to mediainit (-GD I think; the finding was done by
running "strings" on the mediainit executable and looking for a
getopt(3)-style option parsing string) that got it to tell the drive
to do a low-level format and write a new high-level format as well.
Made the disk portion of a 7946 usable again after going "bad" and
being formatted in a PC for testing.
-Frank McConnell
I was in a surplus store yesterday and found a copy of an Intel Communications Handbook. It has the complete listing of all of the specs for the 8291 and several application notes for it as well. If you want it, contact me directly and see about getting it and mailing it to you.
Joe
>
> The 8291 is a GPIB Talker/Listener IC. It's in Volume II of the 1985 Intel Microsystem Components Handbook. I have Vol I but not Vol II so I can't give you any details about the part.
>
> Joe
>
>
>At 11:40 AM 7/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>I've also removed an Intel P8291A, which has been just as hard to find
>>information on, anything would be useful.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-- Pat
>>
>>
I picked up a load of old software the other day and found a copy of MS-DOS for the AT&T 6300. It's in the original boxed set and includes both original disks with MS-DOS 2.11 & GW-BASIC and the manual. Everything is in perfect condition with no marks, tears, wear, etc. If anyone wants it I'd like to swap it for something that I can use. If interested contact me directly.
Joe
Robert F Schaefer <rschaefe(a)gcfn.org> wrote:
> Sounds like a good place to visit once a week. Maybe you could kill two
> birds with one stone-- trade him those old peaseas for store credit!
Yeah, he is looking for some items in particular.
> BTW, where is this place located?
Terre Haute, Indiana
Mike
> At 05:40 PM 7/19/02 -0400, Jerome Fine wrote:
> >>Joe wrote:
> >
> >> A whole LOT of stuff there! <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2039902454>
> >
> >Jerome Fine replies:
> >
> >At $ 9.99, it is worth the price, but it sounds too good to be true.
> >Also, how is it that he has 134 eBay transactions? It certainly
> >sounds like some sort of con, but I will wait until I see the final
> >auction price. Maybe I am too suspicious!
>
>
> Hey at $9.99 even I can afford to find out!
>
> Joe
In looking at that, anyone considering bidding on this should make sure that
they're aware of the VOLUME of stuff listed here. I'm wondering if there
aren't a couple of DESK sized systems in that pile.
BTW, I really don't know anything about TRS-80 systems, but I do have some
TRS-80 manuals that sound like the ones listed, and the pictures show a BIG
computer.
Zane
Well I now have two of the special Gyromite cartridges with the Famicom board and Famicom-to-NES converter inside. After reading about these and the 4 other cartridges that have these special boards I started looking for them at my normal stops. Of the 4 cartridges I purchased 2 had the boards inside. With these I can run Famicom games cartridges on the NES box.
On Jul 18, 11:55, Dan Wright wrote:
> Robert F Schaefer said:
> >
> > What kind of pain? An arbitrary `NO', or just following the finger-
> > pointing to the right desk? If I knew I'd just get the former I
wouldn't
> > bother, but the latter I could deal with to get some info on my 4D/35.
> It's pretty much the latter.
[...]
> You
> can't really get into their system without a supported system serial #.
You
> could always try giving them the serial for your 4D/35 -- who knows,
someone
> might (accidently) still be paying maintenace on it :)
I'm afraid my experience (in the UK) is similar to Dan's. If you try to
call SGI nowadays, you won't get far without a support contract and a
serial number to match. Otherwise, you tend to just get referred to sales,
who will try to sell you support (or an OS upgrade or whatever) if the
machine is recent enough to be supportable.
You might have some luck if you can find someone with a support contract
who regularly sees the engineer. The older ones tend to be quite
knowledgable and may even have worked on such a system or know someone who
has -- and might put you in touch.
Otherwise, the best resources are the comp.sys.sgi.* newsgroups, which are
fairly active and populated by a number of SGI employees as well as
enthusiasts.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
