test-drb December 2003

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by vcf＠siconic.com

I just listed 8 DEC VT420 terminals on the Vintage Computer Marketplace. I'm asking a mere $5 each plus shipping. They are in anywhere from good to excellent condition. Some have slight burn in. They will be sold off in the order of best to worst, first come first served. Items #300, 302-308. I also listed another Sharp PC-5000 (new in the box). See item #301. Go get 'em! -- 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

Is MECC still around?

by Sharp51482＠aol.com

Believe me I tried!!!! At least locally! I did save a few dozen. At the time I was not a member of any group like this, so finding someone who wanted them was not an easy task. Sorry. . . In a message dated 11/28/03 2:35:25 AM, vcf(a)siconic.com writes: > > students progress. Our last DigiCard controller dies about 3 years ago. > > We still have some of the 5.25" disks but 1000s of the software binders > > went into the dumpster about 2 years ago. I would have given them a good > > home but I didn't have the space, and sometimes I just have to say "NO". > > Hmm, how about finding other people who would be interested rather than > dumpstering them? :( >

20 years, 7 months

PDP 11/84 systems available

by hilpert＠cs.ubc.ca

A friend who manages some communications systems expects to be decommissioning 3 or 4 PDP 11/84 systems soon (~ end of 2003). These systems have been functioning for approaching-two-decades in a (presumably) good environment. Sorry to be a little vague on details (I'm recalling this from a quick verbal discussion) but each system is something like: PDP 11/84 CPU RL02 removable-platter disc drive MD17 / MD175 fixed disc (?) tape drive (9-track I believe, but that seems a little odd, like it would more likely be those mid-80s DEC cartridges) other I/O interfaces presumably I don't know what OS they were running/installed with. Email me and I'll try to get clarifications if desired. I know these aren't the most desirable units of the PDP 11 family (too young and no blinkenlights) (poor not-so-little things), but any takers for adoption? Any bits or modules to be rescued for someone? Location is Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Price is take-it-away-it's-yours (unless we can twist your arm into making a donation to the radio museum with which we are associated). (Smaller bits I will consider doing for the price of shipping.) -------------------- http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/eec

20 years, 7 months

Reel-to-Reel care?

by kelly＠catcorner.org

Nico de Jong said ... <snip> > To the best of my knowledge, the fabrication of 1/2" tapes has seized. > The last manufacturer was eMag, AFAIK. They are now even advertising > a new service : recertification of old/used tapes. They are also largely > out of stock now, with regard to new tapes. > ... > Nico </snip> We regularly purchase databases from outside sources. All but a few default to sending these on 9-track 1/2" tape (the bigger reels too). The mail houses still using the 1/2 tapes actually have a service charge of $75 to $100 per ten-thousand names to put them on floppy, cd or email. Maybe they're just trying to get rid of the thousands of junk tapes they have around. Anyway, I end up with a closet full of tapes every year. Kelly

20 years, 7 months

Virus Distribution via this group

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 10, 0:58, Tony Duell wrote: > So what do you want me to change? Should it be text/plain? Or should I > remove that header line altogether (I am not going to totally upgrade my > mail software!). Or should I just stop posting here? It wasn't a rant, Tony, just an observation :-) If you want to do something about it, and it's easy to do, I'd remove that header altogether. It's not valid unless you put the rest of the MIME headers in as well. Of course, one could also argue that whatever is misinterpreting the email in question is also broken, and should be fixed. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 7 months

Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

by aek＠spies.com

Something else that would be nice to be able to do with this sort of hardware would be the ability to read an arbitrarily formatted real disc drive. The MFM drives in Xerox 6085's and 8010's have 'interesting' sector formats that can't be read with normal controllers.

20 years, 7 months

USB 5.25 floppy

by cb＠mythtech.net

>I'm sure one can be built, but I've seen drives like these before (but for >the Macintosh). I just saw a 3.5" USB drive this morning connected to a Dell. From the looks of it, that is they way Dell was delivering the drive for that computer (it was a tiny little tower like unit and had no floppy built in). So they are available for more than just the Mac. I think the one I bought for my father's iMac (so he can transfer pics from his Mavica camera) was not Mac specific and was supported by Windows and Linux according to the box (but the drive sucks, its PAINFULLY slow to copy data, far slower than the USB bus so the speed isn't killed by that... IIRC, its a "SanDisk" brand drive, but I could be wrong). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 7 months

Alex AVX Series 2 Parallel Computer

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, Does anyone have any info/soft/doc on this machine? Here is some general specs: combined i860 + T805 per node parallel computer. Had anywhere from 24-64 nodes. Ran a modified copy of Trollius. Maybe our Canadian / French readers knows something... Thanks, Ram

20 years, 7 months

DEC M750 flipchip? Also 680/i, DL8/i, DC08A

by aek＠spies.com

I've put the schematics for the M750 and M751 up at www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/modules

20 years, 7 months

Disk hardware emulation, was Re: Grandfather system RTE6/VM?

by aek＠spies.com

One of the reasons for starting the bitsavers archive was to try to collect descriptions of various peripheral interfaces. A couple I haven't been able to locate so far is a description of the ANSI 8" winchester interface, and also a service manual for Quantum 2040 and/or 2080 8" discs (thought I had copies, but haven't been able to find 'em) Anyone have these that could be borrowed to scan?

20 years, 7 months

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test-drb December 2003