Picked up the following while out with the wife and one of daughters:
1. Siemens T1000 telex with paper tape punch/reader, it needs some work to bring it back to life. Talked the guy down to $10 for it at the thrift. Anyone know were I can get some technical information on this unit, I tried google with no luck?
2. Burroughs C3660 calculator works great but did not get any of the program cards or manuals for it. Got it for $4.34
3. Some TTL Data Books from 1985.
4. Two HuCards for the TurboGrafx 16 console SplatterHouse and SideArms.
5. Panasonic R.E.A.L 3DO console with one controller for $15. It's a model FZ-1
6. A bunch of books and various cables.
I've got a RX01-compatible dual-8" floppy drive unit made by Heath
in the bottom of my closet.. I do *not* have the required Heath-made
controller card to go with it...
Free, YOU MUST PICK IT UP, in Austin, TX. This is too heavy to ship -
heck, its almost too heavy to *move*. Probably weighs at least 75-100 lbs.
Bill
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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX
Does anyone have the doc set for an IBM 3725 Controller (fancypants
terminal processor for mainframes)? I need to know exactly how to rewire
this thing from 208 to 240 Volts, and it is complicated.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
> > I thought this would be a good canidate to post to the list.
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2042185013
> >
> > Is the seller or bidder here on the list?
>
> That's me. I like big iron, but it is just too big for me. There are other
> vaxen that are still cool but are smaller and more compatible with my home's
> electrical feed. I have a 730, for instance. It needs a new home. I was
> waiting to see if someone was going to post a link to it. :-)
>
> I don't really expect the bids to go very high. eBay is just a way of
> getting the message out. What would be really cool is to get some PDP
> hardware in trade for it, but it is more important to find a good home for
> it.
Speaking of which, this week I talked to someone that threw out
a PDP-11/70 as they couldn't find anyone that would take it. I
told him that if I'd known I'm sure someone here would probably
be interested.
He's going to join the list soon.
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> I hadn't known specifically of a 4.2BSD port
NSC's port of BSD is called Genix. One of the people who sold it was AIS
(American Information Systems) out of Palo Alto who built a Qbus 32k board
which ran Genix, and used RSX11 for I/O
I've been staying at a Crown Plaza in Richmond on a consulting gig. Their
whole cardkey access system is based around Macs. The have a special card
programming interface that is shaped in the Mac's profile and bolted right
to the side. I thought that was a rather good use for such equipment. Who
the hell needs PIII to do that job?
-Colin Eby
CSC Consulting
> A little while ago I received an e-mail from one Lynne Greer Jolitz
> talking about the 375. Any relation to Bill? Did Bill have a sex change
> perhaps?
I remember Bill's wife being very active and involved in 386BSD getting
out into the world, possibly to the extent of taking some interviews. I
believe her name is Lynn, but I'm not positive.
> > Surely this box enjoyed a fair bit of success?
.
> Actually not.
I suppose I should have inferred this from the fact that I hadn't run
across or retained the name. Sad. But I'll defer on picking up the long
sad thread of commercial Unix, etc. Doubtless considered too recent by
many on the list. ;^)
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Hi all,
I have found a DEC board called 'CI START COUPLER'. There are two
numbers
on it, 5414216 and 5014215C.
Were was/is it used for and is anybody interested in it (postage only).
Ed
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I was poking around the links Jochen Kunz posted earlier, which led me
to Dave Rand's web site. Dave, along with George Scolaro, were the
originators of the PC532 project, both worked at Nat Semi at one
point, and had a hand in several other 32k designs including the PD32
that was published in Byte magazine (Nov '85?) and then included as a
reprint in the Nat Semi 32k Design Kit. (The PD32 was Dave, George, and
one Trevor Marshall actually).
There's an archive of the PC532 mailing list at www.bungi.com. I'd
forgotten the excitement surrounding this when it started back in
88/89 - it was such a challenge and opportunity to the folks on
comp.sys.nsc.32k and the Minix community, to actually pick it up and
run with it...
I'd be curious to hear about any other "open" hardware projects from
this or an earlier era in the Unix community - say, 85-95, when the
relentless progress of Moore's Law, Wintel, and Jolitz' 386BSD and its
offspring made it impractical or at least less compelling to pursue
this kind of thing seriously.
While I'm thinking of Bill Jolitz - Jochen, thanks for bringing the
Symmetric 375 to my attention. I was unaware of it, but love it - what
a great little package! I'd love to get my hands on one... Surely this
box enjoyed a fair bit of success? Time to Google...
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Any number of folks probably have this but what the heck, I had it out...
The Nat Semi Series 32000 databook from 1986 lists the following for the
ICM-3216 eval board:
ICM-3216 uses System V/Series 32000, a validated version
of AT&T's Unix System V. System V/Series 32000 is a powerful,
multi-tasking, multi-user operating system [...]
I hadn't known specifically of a 4.2BSD port, but once I consulted Google
I found an early NetBSD tech-kernel posting that mentions a port done at
the University of Toronto. No idea how to lay hands on it, but if we could
just get the changes it'd be a huge boost in getting e.g. NetBSD running
on it. Just thinking that the 4.2BSD code would still be encumbered, etc.
Come to think of it, I should see if there's anything on the UCB CSRG
archive CDs I got from Kirk McKusick...
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