Note that the buyer is from Italy. After reading the feedback He is a
collector.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
Sorry for the blank email. My fingers were too quick.
> Hello, all:
>
> I'm looking for an article in the September 1985 issue of BYTE on
> the EGO Homebrewed CPU (Part 1) by Clifford Kelley. I have part 2, but
> not part 1.
>
> Please contact me off-list if someone has it and can scan it for me.
> Thanks.
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Cini
> Collector of classic computers
> Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
> Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
> /************************************************************/
>
>
I've got a Sony NEWS workstation (keyboard, system unit, and
external SCSI tape drive) free for pickup in Austin, TX.
Its a NWS-841. I no longer have the monitor for the unit (has a 3W3
connector on the back; monitor was a GDM-1962B-style), but I do have
the keyboard (in original box, no mouse) and external tape drive
(uses a Centronics-style SCSI-I cable). Has a floppy drive (with yellow
plastic drive protector) and even still has the red "caps" covering some of
the I/O ports in back. It looks very unused, but its been years since I tried
to power it up; I dont even remember anymore where I got it from.
Best specs I've been able to find on it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=NWS-841&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=24800002%…
" There was a short blurb about the new Sony workstations in
INFOWORLD (Feb 1, 1988 page 3, "AT DEADLINE").
...Internally called the "Sun Killer," the NWS-841 will sport
two 16-MHz 68020 microprocessors, a 68881 math coprocessor, 8M of RAM,
a 286- MB floppy drive, six I/O ports, including an EtherNET
interface, one rep. said. The machine will sell for about $19,900.
Supported software will include BSD4.2, NFS, and X. "
Anyway, if anybody is interested, let me know. I'd like to get this
out of the way, but dont want to scrap it. It just must go to a good
home.
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Tried a Swap meet in Ottawa today. Most people misunderstand the
meaning of swap. There were more machines on my driveway after the event
that when it started.
Traded 2 small case fans for cash,
and a partial HP 9000/715 for a Cromemco system 3, 2 apple II clones, a
TI 99, 3 HP external disk drives, a few commodore 64's and a bunch of
documentation .
Left behind was a MAC PLUS, LC II, LC III, ACER ?? all with monitors, a
few external scsi boxes, and socket 7 mobo's.
On my door step last night was a TRS 80 model III and a Commodre 128,
And the night before I picked up a SGI personal iris and a compaq
contura aero.
And my favorite scrapper has a commodore SX-64 in the back.
All in all a good week, but the next swap will have to be on someone
elses drive way I no longer have space to have another.
Well, I went to a glorified scrap yard today, and picked up some neat stuff,
and left some neater stuff behind. Other than a VT100, I got only books. The
neatest one being DEC's "Introduction To Minicomputer Networks". Being on
vacation and having limited hauling capacity I had to leave behind:
MicroVAX 3500
DECserver 500
Some kind of IBM RS/6000 thingy
Quite a bit of Sun stuff, some SparcStation 1/2s, keyboards, monitors,
etc...
Some newer DEC stuff and some misc old equipment like printing terminals, a
Magnetic Tape Selectric, and a ton of Apple stuff.
IBM Office System 6 - I remember reading a little about this. It's like a
small desk with two 8" floppy drives and a selectric keyboard, basically. I
would really like to get this if possible. Anyone know anything about it?
I hope to make it back over here in my truck someday.
--
Owen Robertson
I've got an Amiga 1080 RGB-or-Composite-input monitor, free for pickup in
Austin, TX.
Works great; I've been using it as the preview monitor (and to watch TV
on) off a VCR for a few months now.. but its just too big and too bulky
and puts out too much heat for what I use it for - so I'm gonna try to
find a normal TV set to use for that stuff (or even one of the little 3"
black and white models). Any leads on that appreciated 8-)
Anyway, Amiga 1080. Works fine. Pick it up and its yours.
(BTW, sticker on back says mfg. 01/96).
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
YAY! I've got it partially IPLing off of the drives that came out of my
55L. It seems to halt with a message of '552' - IPL Varyon falied. Does
anyone know enough IBM-speak to tell me what that means?
Aparently, the problem it was having earlier with powering off
automagically was caused by the power supply thinking a fan was broken -
once I fixed that problem, it magically started doing stuff again.
I'm about to try booting in service mode with a set of diagnostic disks
and see if I can figure anything else out.
One more thing -- I'm still getting just a black picture out of the video
card, like I was with the 5%L. Does anyone know if that's what it should
be doing, or if something there is amiss, too? I've got a 'real' rs/6000
keyboard and mouse hooked up to the system this time, and haven't tried
booting with a serial terminal yet.
Thanks for any help.
-- Pat
I recall this was the subject of some debate earlier. I dug up a primary
source last night, and offer the following article from the Summer 1987
edition of IRIS Universe:
"announcing the IRIS 4D/60 turbo option"
In March, Silivon Graphics demonstrated its commitment to being the
undisputed leader in the superworkstation market by introducing the IRIS
4D/60, the industry's first RISC-based superworkstation. This new product
introduction generated more interest and excitement than any other single
event in Silicon Graphics' history. Certainly a major reason for the
industry's excitement is the IRIS 4D/60's premier graphics performance.
Equally important, however, is the new RISC and floating point technology
incorporated in the IRIS 4D/60. Users' response to this level of computing
performance from the RIS 4D/60 continues to be very enthusiastic.
Now, four months after the introduction of the IRIS 4D/60, Silicon
Graphics once again leads the industry by introducint the IRIS 4D/60 Turbo
Option, a high-performance computing upgrade for the IRIS 4D/60
Superworkstation. By integrating the latest in RISC and floating point
technoloyg, the IRIS 4D/60 Turbo Option breaks both the 10 MIPS and 1
MFLOPS performance barriers! While the IRIS 4D/60 is already the best
all-around performer in its price range, the integer and floating point
performance of the new Turbo Option make this upgrade truly phenomenal.
The IRIS 4D/60 Turbo Option incorporates a 12.5 MHz RISC CPU, 50 percent
faster than the 8 MHz CPU introduced with the IRIS 4D/60. This CPU is
tightly coupled with a new single-chip floating point coprocessor. By
using custom VLSI technology, the the [sic]Turbo Option increases the
floating point performance of the IRIS 4D/60 by a factor of three. The
Turbo Option's new CPU board also includes cache memory, up to 16 Mbytes
of on board CPU memory, and an interface to SCSI peripherals. By having
all of the major components of the CPU architecture on a single board, the
rate of data transfer between components is significantly improved,
thereby maximizing system performance.
The IRIS 4F/60 Turbo Option employs a dual-cache architecture
incorporating 64 Kbytes of instruction cache plus 32 Kbytes of data cache.
The dual cache architecture increases system performance byholding large
portions of the application program in efficient cache memory, and ensures
that instructions and data will not compete for the same cache locations.
This architecture improves performance of large applications by reducint
the time required to access instructions and data.
How fast is fast? Using the Dhrystone benchmark, the industry standard for
measuring integer computing performance, an IRIS 4D/60 with the Turbo
Option leads the superworkstation pack at 10 MIPS (ten times a VAX
11/780). Using the Linpack benchmark to measure floating point
performance, the Turbo Option performs 1.1 million double precision
floating point operations per second (1.1 MFLOPS).
In addition to theis significatn boost in computing performance, Silicon
Graphics announces support for advanced lighting models on the IRIS 4D/60,
with or without the Turbo Option. Both infinite and local light sources
are supported, including attenuation of local light sources with distance
>from the source. Diffuse and specular (Phong) lighting are also supported,
and up to eight colored light sources may be modeled simultaneously.
The Turbo Option may be purchased as a field installable upgrade for the
IRIS 4D/60. Please contact your local sales representative.
--
typos solely my responsibility.
ok
r.
In a message dated 7/6/02 7:31:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, marvin(a)rain.org
writes:
> I was offered about $0.15 per pound for the hard drives a while ago and
> $1.00 per pound for the circuit boards. Since I probably have about 500
> - 1000 pounds of drives and cards, it is something worth looking into
> :). Right now, this excess is too much of a distraction and slows down
> getting other stuff done. Additionally, I've been throwing out stuff
> (non computer related) and saving the gold connectors, gold plated
> boards, etc. without any idea of what it might be worth. Time to find
> out :).
>
Those are good prices on your scrap. Aluminum Breakage (Hard Drives) is about
16 cents a pound and cards run from 40 cents to $2 per pound depending on the
age and how heavy the gold plate it. Cut fingers go for more. HP gold plated
boards go for $3 to $3.50 per pound. Ask your scrapper how to sort your cards
for maximum value. Remove all Aluminum and Iron for maximum value.
There are several chip recyclers out there also who will pay a premium if the
cards have chips they want to pull for resale.
Many scrappers will buy small quantities. I could direct you to one in
Portland, OR but I think you can find one locally.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
