test-drb December 2003

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by vcf＠siconic.com

I've got a couple buttloads of token ring cards available; 8-bit and 16-bit ISA, as well as PCI. If there's any interest, please contact me directly. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

20 years, 7 months

some RM03 questions

by aek＠spies.com

here is the specific quote: www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/disc/RM05_Handbook.pdf pages 2-43 and 2-44 " CDC does not recommend head or media cleaning on the 9766. <- same heads as RM03/9762 The tolerances involved are much more critital than the RP06 or similar drives. Due to the 'Burnished media' technology used on these packs, the normal pack cleaning procedures tend to leave a residue on the platter surfaces. The media requires a special power wash cycle to insure that all the residue is removed. Again, only a keen eye trained to recognize a media defect can spot a problem inspecting a pack. CDC recommends a program of media inspection at certain intervals but will not recommend any cleaning. Therefore a clean environment and proper storage of media to prevent pack contamination is strongly suggested. "

20 years, 7 months

Processor Tech PTDOS 1.5 manual now online

by frustum＠pacbell.net

I've been wrestling with my PC for the past few weeks, but it is finally stable enough that I have had time to post the Processor Technology PTDOS 1.5 User's guide on my web site. PTDOS was contemporaneous with CP/M, but it was a lot more sophisticated in some ways. But don't believe me, just read it for yourself. http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/soldocu.html (the PTDOS manual is near the end, broken up into the core OS chapters in one PDF, and another PDF containing a chapter for each of the various bundled applications).

20 years, 7 months

Cable for Televideo 910 and altair 8800b

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Just putted a Televideo 910 terminal out of the bus and now need a cable to hook it up to my altair 8800b. Anyone have an extra cable they want to sell or know where I can order one? Thanks

20 years, 7 months

hp 21mx E on ebay (question/comment)

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I looked a while ago at the HP 21MX E series on ebay. Just now happened to come across it again at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2772816038&category=1247 The unit says 21MX-E on the front, and also clearly says "E series computer". However, the tag on the back says 2112A, which was an M series machine. Odd. But further still... the keyswitch has positions operate, standby, R, and lock. This was indicative of M series machines I thought. True enough, M series were often upgraded to E series via a motherboard upgrade. But the rotary key switch is obviously still connected. And from what I've seen, M series upgraded to E they generally didn't take the time to upgrade the front panel silkscreen. I'm betting it's an M series. Or maybe an M that was very completely upgraded to an E. Anyone have thoughts on this? Regards, Jay West

20 years, 7 months

fw: Announcing a DEC Pro 350 emulator

by rachael＠rachael.dyndns.org

seen on comp.sys.dec.micro >From: "Tarik Isani" <xhomer(a)ReplaceWithMyLastName.org> >Subject: Announcing a DEC Pro 350 emulator >Date: 15 Dec 2003 05:47:02 GMT > >I would like to announce the first public release of >Xhomer, a DEC Pro 350 machine emulator, based on the >PDP-11 core from (a somewhat old version of) SIMH. > >The emulator was written for Linux/XFree86 systems, >but should work with other Unix/X11 systems as well. > >Xhomer is able to boot stock installations of >P/OS 3.2 and Venix (other operating systems may also >work, but have not been tested yet). > >The hard disk, floppy drives, display (standard video >and extended bitmap option), floating point processor, >real-time clock, keyboard, and printer and communications >ports are all emulated. > >Source and binary downloads, as well as documentation, >may be obtained from: > >http://xhomer.isani.org/ > >Feedback is welcome. > >Tarik Isani though someone here might find it interessting Regards Jacob Dahl Pind

20 years, 7 months

List of token ring cards

by vcf＠siconic.com

Here is a rough list of the cards I have: Olicom 770000260 PCI 1 770000331 PCI 2 770000591 ISA 1 770000690 PCI 14 770000811 ISA 4 770000861 PCI 19 770001120 PCI 3 OC-3137 PCI 7 OC-3118 ISA 3 3Com 3C339 PCI 16 IBM Auto LANStreamer PCI 4 ??? 2000T ISA 2 Again, let me know if there's any (additional) interest. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

20 years, 7 months

About Veritas, Was Re: Message for Joe Heck - re. 7 Track tape drives

by jpdavis＠gorge.net

Jan_Wood(a)veritasdgc.com wrote: > Joe, > > I just found a message you wrote back in September mentioning a selection > of old track tape drives. I run a computer department on the services > side > of the Oil industry and we specialise in maintaining and transcribing > data > from these older types of media. We have almost everything used in our > industry from analogue tapes onwards. Anyway, I am always trying to find > 21, 7 and 9 track tape drives, especially old IDT's. Would you still have > the drives you mentioned in your email? If so I'd like to know if > you'd be > prepared to let them go to a good home where they can spin tapes again? > > Best regards, > Jan. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Mr Jan T. Wood > Data Services Manager > Veritas DGC Limited. > Telephone DD: +44 (0)1293 443263 > Facsimile: +44 (0)1293 443200 > Mobile: 0 77 11 66 4545 > > > > > From veritas about web page: VERITAS Software Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTS) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 6,300 people in 36 countries. With annualized revenues over $1.5 billion in 2002, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. Through its award-winning and market-leading products focused on business efficiency and continuity, VERITAS Software provides the building blocks for utility computing. This is a big operation, Any transactions with this company should be on a BUSINESS basis. That then begs the question, Is it ethical ( for a CC'er ) to sell or give classic equipment to a large corporation for the profit of this operation? Most likely the equipment will be locked up in some machine room available at $1000/hr? It's also an oil operation. I'll leave the members of CC to judge. Their product is mapping data sets for oil exploration. One more question? Has Veritas done anything to help the CC cause? My bad to cc/on-topic ( posted to the wrong group) Jim Davis.

20 years, 7 months

Viking disk controller on Ebay

by chrisc＠addpower.com

Does anyone have information on this controller? Does it do MSCP emulation? I want SCSI, but I don't want to get something that won't be compatible with 2.11BSD or the like... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2772733938&category=1247

20 years, 7 months

About Veritas, Was Re: Message for Joe Heck - re. 7 Track tape drives

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> > >Jim, >You know, you might want to make sure you've got the right company first here >is the website for "Veritas DGC Limited" http://www.veritasdgc.com/ They most >definitly are not Veritas Software Corporation. As for the the question of is >it ethical to sell or give to a large corporation, I don't see giving, but I >can sure see selling. Selling to industries that have need of some of the >equipment that Hobbyists have saved can be a good way of offsetting the storage >costs of ones collection. Lease it to them. That way both parties get something. Dwight > >What's more ethical, hoarding equipment that someone desperately needs, and never doing anything useful with it, or selling it to someone that needs it? > > Zane > > >>>Mr Jan T. Wood >>>Data Services Manager >>>Veritas DGC Limited. >>>Telephone DD: +44 (0)1293 443263 >>>Facsimile: +44 (0)1293 443200 >>>Mobile: 0 77 11 66 4545 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>From veritas about web page: >> >>VERITAS Software Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTS) is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., >>and employs more than 6,300 people in 36 countries. With annualized revenues over $1.5 billion >>in 2002, VERITAS Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. >>Through its award-winning and market-leading products focused on business efficiency >>and continuity, VERITAS Software provides the building blocks for utility computing. >> >>This is a big operation, Any transactions with this company should be on a BUSINESS basis. >>That then begs the question, Is it ethical ( for a CC'er ) to sell or give classic equipment to >>a large corporation for the profit of this operation? Most likely the equipment will >>be locked up in some machine room available at $1000/hr? It's also an oil operation. >>I'll leave the members of CC to judge. Their product is mapping data sets for oil exploration. >>One more question? Has Veritas done anything to help the CC cause? >>My bad to cc/on-topic ( posted to the wrong group) >>Jim Davis. > >-- >-- >| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | >| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | >| | Classic Computer Collector | >+----------------------------------+----------------------------+ >| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | >| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | >| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | >

20 years, 7 months

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test-drb December 2003