The systems are now spoken for. Thanks to all who replied!
Cheers,
-RK
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> From root Mon Sep 16 14:25:13 2002
> Subject: Re: PDP11/73 (fwd)
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:25:13 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert Krten" <root(a)parse.parse.com>
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>
> Folks,
> there are 2 PDP-11/73 (LSI 11/73's) as described below in Oregon; anyone
> interested? (I believe it's Eugene/OR)
>
> I believe the cost is $free$ or very nominal.
>
> Please reply by Friday of this week, as I promised the guy I'd get
> back to him in a week. Preference given to people in the area of
> Oregon to minimize grief for the guy.
>
> If you're interested, reply to me and I'll put you on a #1, #2 order.
> Tell me what pieces you're interested in; first come first served.
>
> If no one is interested, the machines' cards will be pulled and
> shipped to Canada :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -RK
>
> > After more than a decade looking at a stack of PDP-11 hardware in
> > my office, I just summoned the courage to put it on a cart to take
> > down to the junk heap. Since I am by nature a procrastinator, the
> > cart still sits in a corner awaiting its fate. So, if you're interested, I
> > have two LSI 11/73's, fully loaded with 4 (count 'em) MB of ram,
> > three floppy drives, several hard disks (I can't remember the type
> > RL02 maybe).
> > I do still
> > have 6 of those big 10 mB removable platters. I also have a shelf full of 11/73
> > manuals (RT-11).
>
> --
> Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!
> Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
> Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
>
--
Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
> Today I acquired a BRAND NEW AT&T model 458 serial daisy wheel printer.
> It's in the original wrapping. It has a printout saying Printer AT&T 458
> Number 7829177, then it has a vertical alignment test. If someone wants
> this before I open the original packing, let me know.
>I've reformatted your text. Where is the printer and how heavy is it?
>-- Derek
The printer has been spoken for.
Ralph
Does anyone know when the first international-capable modems were sold?
I know that there were Hayes commands pretty early on that allowed
modems to be configured for either US or Europe, but I suspect this may
have been more related to signal standards than to phone line requirements
(such as impedance). I'm looking for a modem that could be switched
between US, Europe, and/or Japan phone lines. Can anyone help? Thanks.
Laurie
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>Did Kodak own Firey? I always thought they were their own company.
Good question. I have only seen 3 Firey boxes ever (and personally used
none). All 3 had big Kodak labels on them, so I just kind of assumed it
was a Kodak product. That could of course be a bad assumption. Based on
the big labels concept, most of my WinTel PCs must be made by apple,
because they all have big apple stickers on them (as well as my old car)
All 3 of the ones I looked at were fat square mini-tower size boxes, two
were beige, one was black, and I have NO idea what was in them (my
"looking" at them was pretty much just that, they were on the floor near
a color printer, I pointed my eyes at it, and looked)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>They had some
>wierd Kodak computer, looked like a Sun pedestal and might have been an
>OEMed Sun 3 or 4.
It might be a Kodak Firey (sp?). It was their print RIP for their high
end printing system. I'm not sure what a Sun pedestal looks like, but the
Firey that my Uncle's store had looked like a fat boxy PC mini tower.
It connected via Ethernet IIRC to their Mac, and then connected to a
Kodak printer/color copier unit (might have been an Agfa or Canon
printer/copier, not sure).
I could see one of these coming out of a school's graphic arts
department. I'm not sure how much these are used any more now that many
of the workgroup color laser printers give as good or better quality than
the early color copier/firey sytems, and at a much lower cost.
Or, it might be a newer Kodak photo processor that you find in those one
hour photo places, although I don't know why a school would have one of
those and be ditching it (I was under the impression they weren't owned
by stores, but rather leased as part of the kiosk and had to be returned
to Kodak when they were no longer wanted)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I found a new toy at the hamfest this past weekend. A SWTPC 6800 computer and an AC-30 Cassette Interface. Can anyone asnswer some questions about these? This one has MP-A CPU card, a BOAZ D64kb memory card, a Percom LFD-400B Mini-Disk Controller, a MP-S (serial interface?) card and a MP-L (parallel interface?) card. The MP-L card has a small board hanging off of it with a Datel D/A converter IC on it. Does anyone have any suggestions about whewre to start with this? (After I check the power supply, etc) Does anyone have the terminal connections for this thing? Also the pin out for the Percom Disk controller and info about what drives it supports? and what disks format and wheather they're hard or soft sectored?
Joe
Oh if only I lived near Chicago...
-----Original Message-----
From: Jochen Kunz
Sent: Tue 9/17/2002 1:01 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:
Subject: Fwd: 11/750 Available [sawyer(a)cbcast.com]
Hi.
Seen this morning on port-vax(a)netbsd.org:
-----
On 2002.09.17 02:46 The Sawyers wrote:
Hey Everyone,
11/750 available in the Chicago Area, far west suburbs.
Full Set of spares, front panel down to the power supplies,
Print Set,
Emulex MASSBUS <-> SMD
2 Fujitsu Eagles ~430 MB each (SMD) (with boot prom)
2 CDC Sabre ~ 1BG each (SMD) (with boot prom)
TU81 (Unibus interface)
Unibus Ethernet
Unibus SCSI
RS232 Multiplexers
Many TU58 Diagnostic Tapes
Installation Manuals, Hardware Manuals .. and more.
The whole machine currently will run on a 120V/20A
circuit. (CPU, TU81, 1 Eagle, and both Sabres)
PLEASE SAVE ME FROM THE DUMPSTER
Please reply to sawyer(a)cbcast.com..
Thanks !
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
At 01:00 AM 9/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Carlos Murillo wrote:
>> The machine thinks that there is a floppy disk in the superdrive
>> constantly; it is always trying to read the (empty) drive,
>> then the "This disk cannot be read; Initialize? Eject?" dialog
>> box shows up, I click on "eject" and it starts trying to
>> read the nonexistent floppy again.
>Something fried the disk controller. I did this to one of my SE/30s once
>by being cavalier about not shutting the machine off before connecting and
>disconnecting an external disk drive.
Ouch, I really hope that this is not the case; SE30's are rare
here in Colombia. I know that I haven't plugged an external floppy
to this machine in eons. So if it is fried, that came out of the blue.
I did another experiment: I unplugged the floppy ribbon cable and
turned the computer on. No more "...initialize or eject" dialogs.
I've been looking at the SE30 schematics
(http://www.archaic-apples.com/index.php?category=Macintosh&subcategory=Sche
matics),
especially page 2 of the SCSI-SWIM diagrams, where the floppy
disk controller is depicted. I see that the RDDATA line in the
header is tied to the RDDATA _and_ SENSE pins in the controller
chip. I don't see any signal name other than "SENSE" that might
indicate if there is media in the drive. I also see that
all of the lines go through an "RCNET" pack before heading out
to the external floppy disk connector. I wonder if the problem
might be in this device... I'd like to wait for input from you
guys before I turn on the soldering iron.
>I suppose it goes without saying that the floppy controller is not a
>standard part.
Not socketed, either :-( .
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
