I am looking for the servo formatting pca board for HP 7905/6 drives. This
is what allows you to rewrite the servo data on head 2, from a CE servo
cartridge at head 0. This board isn't normally installed in the drive, it
would be sitting around loose. The HP part number is 12995-60114.
Any chance someone has one if these in a box somewhere?
Jay West
has anyone done a pdf or ocr on the whole manual for the dec computer lab.
(I see Eric has the cover and contents online )
while hunting for the master module list in some of the boxed material
that has not been shelved yet I did come across this book for the DEC
computer Lab.
Thanks!
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
See the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
online at:
http://www.smecc.org
Hello, all:
Here's an oddball question. I have a small Windows NT Server network at
home that frankly I use mostly for storing all sorts of crap -- classic and
other. It's overkill (Compaq dual PPro200 3U server and 4-drive RAID 5 and
10gb DLT) for what I need but the price was good.
With hard drive densities continuing to increase I was toying with building
some sort of NAS unit to replace the server. So, I'm looking for suggestions
on building a stand-alone, small NAS system, maybe using Linux, and it has
to be more appliance-like rather than a full-blown system. Any thoughts or
suggestions on implementation?
On an unrelated note, I'd like to automatically mirror the information on
the RAID to a cheap 40gb drive (because I'm too lazy to mount the tape and
do a backup). I have some server-oriented backup probrams but they don't
allow you to backup to a file -- you can only back up to a physical tape
drive. Any thoughts on this?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Does anyone have documentation describing the valid HP-IB/GPIB commands for
these diskette drives? I have both the Operator's Manual and the CE Sevice
Manuals - but neither contain a listing of available commands.
Thanks,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA 94040
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
> you will also need to either reverse engineer the custom microcode
> or find a document that describes what the added instructions do.
The opcodes and a short description of all of the E/F microcoded
instructions appears starting on pages 11-22 of the M/E/F CE handbook
5950-3767_M-E-F_CEhbk_Jul84.pdf
At least it gives you the opcodes they used. You'll still have to
figure out from the code what they actually do.
> I just checked, I have the RTE-6VM microcode also, and the EMA code too.
The files I uploaded include just about every firmware option released for the E and F.
>I am working for some time now to get RTE-6/VM to run on simh.
>What I need is a 1:1 disk dump of a bootable RTE-6/VM system
you will also need to either reverse engineer the custom microcode
or find a document that describes what the added instructions do.
it's unfortunate that the Interex release appears to be binary only.
Hey Ethan,
Stewart Marshall here. Am bidding on one of these serial interface 953b
burners on ebay. Do you still have yours? This one has no docs. If
you have any info or still have the instructions and commands for it,
that would be wonderful! Bye for now,
Stew
