test-drb August 2002

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by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone have a manual for this? My clock appears to work except that it's not setting the time automaticly. It recieves WWV and the Data light blinks and the Capture light blinked a couple of times but the correct time never appeared on the display. Also what do the Hi Spec, Trim Up and Trim Dn lights mean? Joe

22 years, 1 month

IBM 3295 Plazma Display

by mross666＠hotmail.com

>>Before I give in to the temptation to e*** this critter, anyone know >>anything interesting about it or care to make me an interesting offer >>(sell/trade/etc.) on it? >> >>BIG IBM Mainframe (I think) display. Display unit only... >I haven't heard of anyone getting these to do anything other >than what they were designed to do. There *are* possibilities, since 'they were designed' to talk to 3174 controllers and *they* are intelligent devices that can do a lot with the right microcode. They talk coax 3270 to a 3174 controller. If you can get a 3174 with token-ring or ethernet connectivity (t/r is common, shows up on ebay from time to time, and is cheap; ethernet is like hens teeth and still worth a fair bit) and the latest microcode from IBM (C6 or better), the 3174 supports tcpip & telnet, allowing you to use the 3270 terminal to connect to any ASCII host across the LAN. I *think* that only applies to common or garden 3270 CUT devices however - and the 3290 series stuff is DFT, requires download (DSL)microcode from the 3174 to work, and can't be used for telnet. I *think*. I have a 3174 set up for telnet; I have a 3290. I'll get 'em together sometime and see if it works. Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

22 years, 1 month

Any interest? Basic Four on ebay

by mross666＠hotmail.com

Found on ebay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2044637798 Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

22 years, 1 month

anyone in Boston or western MA?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Derek Peschel [mailto:dpeschel@eskimo.com] > > > Hi everybody, > > I'm going to be in Boston for a few days next week and in western > Massachusetts (on the way to Tanglewood) next weekend. Is anyone > in either of those areas? This will be a nice opportunity for me > because I haven't been to VCF East yet and you New Englanders don't > seem to want to come to VCF West. :) > > -- Derek New Haven, CT, is probably about an hour or two out of the way... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 1 month

Dynalogic Hyperion

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com] > > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Chris wrote: > > > >> Wasn't that one of the ones that IBM shut down for being > > >>TOO compatible? > > > > > >I think that was the Corona Data Systems one. They just > > >copied the ROMs from what I've been told. > > > > Does this mean my Corona luggable will sell for huge $$$ on > > ePay? Oh why > > oh why did I give my complete one to Dave :-( > > No, it means that it is obscure or forgotten and nobody will even know > what they are bidding on and it will languish there and end > up costing you the listing fees. > > Sellam Ismail > ---------------- You know, I should dig that thing out and fire it up one of these days. It got put in the basement computer room, and I haven't had a chance yet to start it. When I saw this mentioned, I was about to laugh at Chris for handing it over, but Sellam had to come by and burst the bubble... :/ -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 1 month

VAXcluster ?'s

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Well, I now have the fixings for an interesting VAXcluster in the basement: VAX 6000 320, VAXstation 4000 90, VAXstation 3100 40 (I think), VAX 4000 200, and some maybe-OT alphas (DEC 3000/300X, DEC 3000/700, and a DEC 3000/800). Also a TU-81+ w/ RA-81, and a RA-91 in the 6K machine. Support hardware includes a DELNI, DECserver 100, and an HP bridge to segment the cluster off the network proper. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to tie it all together. The plan so far is to cluster all the VAXen over the DELNI. I don't have any CI equipment, and in any case IIRC only the 6K would be able to use it. I'm not positive what I'm going to do with the alphas, but I'd like at least one of 'em in the cluster too, maybe dual-boot them into OpenVMS or NetBSD. I think OpenVMS 7.? still supports the old VAXen, and from what I've heard on c.o.v it's recommended over the 5.5-? currently installed on three of the machines. Ok, I confess this was partly to brag, but has anyone done something neat with a VAXcluster that I could do too? I'm not to the point where I can spark everything at once (need a new power circuit for the 6K for one thing-- did the 220V conversion already, thanks), but I'd like to have a direction early on, kind of a goal to work towards. Anyone want to share? Bob

22 years, 1 month

Copying tapes on a VT103?

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>The VT103 unit has two tape drives and I think you can copy from one to >the other it just a matter of knowing the correct commands, hence the >reason for this email. Therefore I would be most grateful for any >suggestions you could suggest for the commands required to copy from >drive 0 to drive 1, we have so far tried the following: > >Note :- RT11FB.SYS = Boot program (I think) >i) COPY/BOOT RT11FB.SYS > TO: DD1 >ii) COPY/SYS > FROM? DD0 > TO? DD1 > >The second method kicks up the following: - PIP-F-FILE NOT FOUND If these are the commands as used verbatim, then it is looking for a *file* by the name of DD0. You need to specify the device name, so use 'DD0:'. (I'm surprised it didn't report the name of the file it didn't find.) So, the command should be: COPY/SYS DD0: DD1: Doing this, however, will not result in an optimized tape... it may actually take a relatively long time to boot. I actually got a TU58-based system to boot in as little as 30 seconds by judicious placement of the system files. If you (or other people) are interested, I could write it up... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | email: gentry at zk3.dec.com (work) | | Unix Support Engineering Group | mbg at world.std.com (home) | | Hewlett Packard | (s/ at /@/) | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

22 years, 1 month

Need help finding information on the following transputer boards

by rmeenaks＠att.net

Hi, I am in the process of compiling a list of inmos transputer boards (excluding trams). I have information on most if not all of them so far except the following: IMSB013 - Did it ever exist and if so, what was it IMSB019 - ditto anything after IMSB020??? again, I am only looking for information on the IMSB series and not IMSB4?? trams... Thanks, Ram PS: Finally figured out what was causing the HTML messages. First of all, I apologize for that. Our confidential signature that gets added by Microshaft Exchange only supports HTML so even if you send your emails via text, the server sends them out in HTML. Our useless SAs, claim that it can not output plain text. Is this true???

22 years, 1 month

Microsoft vs Lindows

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 10:47 PM 8/17/02 -0500, you asked: > >Why has Micro$oft not gone after "X Windows", this looks >even closer to the actual name of Windows, but since it >is freely available they cant zero in on anybody/company. For one thing they'd have to go after companies like AT&T and HP. MicroSlouth couldn't push them around the way that it does small companies. Joe

22 years, 1 month

Dec TU-56 Question

by Qstieee＠aol.com

If someone needs components (lights from real computers), the best place is http://www.digikey.com/ They don't specialize in vintage, but a surprising number of things are still standardized after all these years.

22 years, 1 month

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test-drb August 2002