test-drb December 2003

test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

252 participants
453 discussions

by charlesmorris＠direcway.com

Hey Ian, did you ever get any of my emails about the Mac Classic you were going to sell me back in June? I've been having problems with bounces and "blacklisting" of Direcway so if you've replied I didn't get any of them. thanks Charles

20 years, 7 months

HP Apollo DN5500 disk and sysboot

by arohirohi＠hotmail.com

I am trying to salvage a nice Apollo DN5500 server. Unfortunately I had to swap the original Maxtor ESDI 760 HD - it makes a clunky noise - for a lower capacity Micropolis and I have some difficulties to reinstall DomainOS software. The system starts under service mode. It can read a bootable tape and install the mini DomainOS software but it cannot boot DomainOS directly from the hard disk ... it dies with an "Error: sysboot not found" What I've done ... in service mode, with a 10.3.4 boot tape inserted, > re > di c > ex config, ex calendar, ex invol ... to enter the new hd configuration, setup date/time and format hd then ... > ex domain_os ... does a lot of shoeshinning, copy base OS from tape to hd and says that sysboot is found and skipped ... ) go ... goes to HP logo and login or ) sh runs a text shell ... I was delighted ... but now if I shutdown and reboot the system in normal mode, it passes the tests ok but fails to start the base OS complaining about "sysboot not found". Same result in service mode if I do a > re and > ex domain_os. Considering that it boots fine from a tape, I assume that the sysboot is not a eprom program and that it has been erased by formatting the drive. Does anybody know how to install the sysboot. Does it have anything to do with the 40KB file copied from the tape to //nodeXXX/sysboot on the hard disk? Kind regards, Aro

20 years, 7 months

HP 700/RX terminal available for shipping from Lousiana

by vcf＠siconic.com

Francisco has an HP 700/RX terminal available for the cost of shipping >from St. James, LA. Contact him directly. Reply-to: POLZIFR(a)cpchem.com -- 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

HP 64000 hard disk structure ???

by hpd＠demus.de

Hello ! i'm trying to decode the disc structure of a HP7912 hard disk attached to a HP 64000 uC System. build in 1985! yeaaah I managed to copy the HP7912 sectors on a MO-disc SCSI on series hp 9000 / 300. i read in the MO disc image on a PC. now i have a 54MB image file. has anybody some infos about structure and tables of the directory of the HP64000 disc format ?? it's not HFS (HPUX) and NOT LIF.... i decoded the directory entries for name and date and size of file. now there are two 16bit words describing first and last page used for storing data. i have no idea how this 16bit value is belonging to a sector number. any hints ?? thanks peter -- DEMUS DATENSYSTEME GmbH ? Steinbergstr. 24 D-30559 Hannover ? Germany Tel +49-511-95448-0 ? Fax +49-511-95448-44 http://www.demus.de ? mailto:info@demus.de

20 years, 7 months

[ComputerHistoryClub] FW: Looking for Oral Histories related to DEC (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

See message below. Jill Jackson <jillj(a)vulcan.com> is the one to respond to. Vulcan.com is Paul Allen's venture investment firm, and I'd bet this is related to the computer museum they are throwing together. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 15:19:09 -0800 From: Chuck Piotrowski <Chuck.Piot(a)ADM.UCSC.edu> Reply-To: computerhistoryclub(a)lists.damer.com To: "'computerhistoryclub(a)lists.damer'" <computerhistoryclub(a)lists.damer.com> Cc: "'Jeff Yost (E-mail)'" <yostx003(a)tc.umn.edu> Subject: [ComputerHistoryClub] FW: Looking for Oral Histories related to DEC The following was a request on the Archives Listserve. Thought some one here may be able to help...Please contact her directly. Happy Holidays! c- ----------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Jill Jackson [mailto:JillJ@VULCAN.COM] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:29 AM To: ARCHIVES(a)LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU Subject: Looking for Oral Histories related to DEC I am looking for interviews with people who used, operated, designed, were fond of, DEC PDP-10 minicomputers. These may be people who worked at DEC, but not necessarily. I am also interested in PDP-10 users who interacted with them in a corporate, educational, or timeshare setting. Interviews with PDP-10 hackers and enthusiasts would be of interest too. Thanks for any leads. Jill ______________________________________________________________________ Jill U. Jackson Senior Archivist Library and Archives Department Vulcan Inc A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv(a)listserv.muohio.edu In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to archives(a)listserv.muohio.edu Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <rschmidt(a)lib.muohio.edu> _______________________________________________ ComputerHistoryClub mailing list ComputerHistoryClub(a)lists.damer.com http://lists.damer.com/mailman/listinfo/computerhistoryclub -- 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

Space Invaders returning to arcades...

by r_a_feldman＠hotmail.com

I've been buying from Happ Controls for almost 15 years to make interfaces for museum interactives. Their products will stand up to severe pounding. I've been using the same trackball with my regular PC for 12 years and I've only had to clean and oil it once. When I took it apart to oil the bearings, it looked like one of the rollers had worn a bit, so I wrapped a piece of Scotch Magic Tape (R) around the shaft, and it has been working fine for the last two years. Bob Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 21:59:36 -0500 From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini(a)optonline.net> Subject: RE: Space Invaders returning to arcades... I don't recall this being mentioned before, but I've found that Happ Controls (http://www.happcontrols.com) has everything you need to build a proper MAME setup. The buttons are reasonably priced. The trackball will give you a bit of heartburn. The spinner is a must-have. Don't buy a coin door from Happ. You can get them on eBay for about $30 + shipping. <snip> _________________________________________________________________ Cell phone ‘switch’ rules are taking effect — find out more here. http://special.msn.com/msnbc/consumeradvocate.armx

20 years, 7 months

Wang terminal

by vcf＠siconic.com

Here's an Wang terminal on eBay in case anyone was interested: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2771213664&category=4193 -- 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

Symbolics 1200 mouse hack

by jpdavis＠gorge.net

Hi, I have an Symbolics 1200XL box missing the mouse, I've been thinking about using an buss mouse with the proper rewire. Is there anything that I may be missing ( levels? polarity? ) Thanks Jim Davis

20 years, 7 months

Space Invaders returning to arcades...

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 7, 19:29, Witchy wrote: > But the arcades would possibly own the games anyway, and therefore are > legally allowed to use the ROMs in MAME. A few of them, perhaps, but I suspect a lot of copyright holders might get upset about that. If you're thinking about the exemption granted for obsolete games, it only applies where "machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace." If someone manufactures and sells machines, especially for use in arcades, the exemption does not apply. It probably doesn't apply in Europe anyway -- it's an exemption to the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. There is also the issue that you're not allowed to distribute ROM images with MAME, so you'd need some way of distributing the images separately. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 7 months

SGI 4D/35 Personal Iris question

by bdwheele＠indiana.edu

Seeing the 4D/25 question, reminded me of a machine I've got in storage. I've got a 4D/35 with the storage tower thingy. Unfortunately, I only get the fault light when it comes up. After digging around in it, I found that the internal fan was shot. Would that cause the fault? I know they're heat senstive, so I suppose its possible the whole thing is hosed, but if its just a fan sensor, how would I determine that? Any hints on where to start? Thanks! Brian Wheeler bdwheele(a)Indiana.edu

20 years, 7 months

← Newer
1
...
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
...
46
Older →

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

test-drb December 2003