Sorry, I gave some wrong information regarding the cost to ship a
container overseas.
I said it's US$3,000 for a 40 footer. It's actually US$3,000 for a 20
footer from the west coast of the US to Europe.
Not bad if you have a lot of scheisse to ship.
Speaking of which, if anyone in Germany or beyond has something big in the
US that they want to ship and can get it to Oakland, California, soon then
let me know because Hans is shipping a bunch of stuff back to Germany but
doesn't have enough to fill a container yet.
--
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In a message dated 2/26/03 1:46:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
classiccmp(a)crash.com writes:
> I hadn't realized anyone had put a 68020 on the S-100 bus, or is that just
> a 680[01]0 in a PGA?
Yes, They made a 68020 and that system appears to be one. I had a similar
System One in a wood cabinet that came with the 68020 CPU, 2 2meg memory
cards and some custom video cards. It came with the docs. All S100.
I have since passed it on to another collector from the list. It is
interesting to note that the one I passed on and this one in the auction are
both located in Washington State. They must have had a good Cromemco dealer
there.
They are not the same System Ones. Cabinets are different.
It is a nice system.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
PS No connection with the seller...
From: Erik S. Klein <classiccmp(a)vintage-computer.com>
Date: 02/26/2003 11:23 AM
> TeoZ Said:
>
> " The Timex 2068 was released in 82 or 83 when the Vic20/c64 had proper
> keyboards."
>
[snip]
> all "Q"s. It seems that Commodore had to rush to get their Christmas
> orders filled and they ended up cutting a few corners.
>
The C64 and TS 2068 were both released that Xmas season, and Timex Sinclair
lore has it that the Timex machine was initially called the TS2064, but when
Commodore announced the C64, the 2064 was changed to 2068 in order to sound
bigger and more powerful :>)
Later --
Glen
0/0
Looks like most of a 68k-based Cromemco on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3403398810&category=1479
I hadn't realized anyone had put a 68020 on the S-100 bus, or is that just
a 680[01]0 in a PGA? Looks like I could find out if I could get to this
page:
www.dantiques.com/computers/cromemco/100300.htm
But my ISP has a routing problem that prevents me from reaching them.
I've used the Google cache, but that doesn't get me the pictures. Oh
well, maybe by next week this'll be fixed...
No connection to the seller, just curious. And still looking for a job,
or I'd consider bidding on this thing.
--Steve.
cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org schrieb am 26.02.2003:
>
Oh boy, thatone previously was supposed to go privat...
one thousand sorries to all of you.
Frank
cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org schrieb am 26.02.2003:
>
>----------<snip>-----------
>Message: 11
>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:23:21 +0100 (CET)
>From: "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)pdp11.nl>
>To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: Available: various DEC monitors
>Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
>
>All,
>
>Available as of right now, various DEC color monitors of
>the 19" and heavy kind. VR and VRT series. Obviously
>for pickup only, in the Hilversum-Amsterdam area in
>The Netherlands.
>
>What's left by next week will be scrapped - I need the
>space for machines.
>
>Cheers,
> Fred
>----------<snip>-----------
>
Hallo Fred,
Ik zoek een of twee VRT17-HA/H4 of VRC21-HA/H4 (72Hz-refresh) voor mijn DEC3000
systemen, heb je zoiets? Zoja, kan ik het bijvoorbeeld zaterdag ophalen, ik rij
morgen naar Nederland.
Wat anders, heb je al faciliteiten om manuals te scannen? Ik heb wel het een en
ander bij te dragen, maar zonder automatische papier-feeder op de scanner word
je gek. Ik kan evtl. wel het een en ander meebrengen.
Er zijn intussen heel wat websites met dokumentatie. Ken jij een algemene lijst
die verteld welk dokument reeds gescant is, en waar zich dit bevind? Of wou jij
juist zoiets gaan samenstellen?
Ok, ik hoor het wel,
groet,
Frank
PS
een mailaccout op www.pdp11.nl is heel erg cool....
Evenin' all.
Uploaded tonight for your viewing pleasure, just over 60 pix of the
HP1000's that Tim found & saved a few weeks ago, now parked lovingly (erm)
in my shed...
http://classic-micros.com/hp1000
(Note to Hans: I *know* I've not put the picture sizes in the img tags, I'm
just too darn lazy, OK?)
:)
Anyway, a brief tale of what happened this last w/e...
On Saturday, I picked up the 3 terminals & assorted other tapes, plus the
disc controller from Tim, thus completing the rescue. Back to the shed for
some well deserved tinkering time :)
A long poke around in the manuals convinced me that:
a) I have no docs for the F-series machines :( They're all for the A700...
b) There was no system installation guide :(
Thus thwarted, I decided buggrit, I'll carry out the cardinal sin, and just
power the things up anyway. Fortunately, a kindly sysadmin had labelled the
tape drive connectors, so they could be applied to the correct slot. Not so
with the MUX cable; and besides, the other end of the MUX seemed to be
missing anyway (i.e the DeMUXer). So, my total experimentation with the
F-series was limited to pressing buttons on the panel and getting the
blinkenlights to blinken. Which they did in a most satisfactory manner, I
might add. Efforts to do anything with the tape drive were also effectively
thwarted; I did manage to get a tape loaded, and the "on line" light to
blinken (well, "come on" would be more accurate"). No amount of pressing
front panel buttons would make them spin on their own, however.
Ho hum.
So, I tried the A700, which at least will talk to a terminal.
Unfortunately, it won't listen to the terminal, so there's something a bit
fishy going on there as well. That boot screen was as far as I got.
Ho hum ^ 2.
So, I made do with loading a disc (dunno where to plug it in to the 1000,
though, so can't load anything from it, even if I knew the correct
pushenbutton sequence).
Questions/requests arising:
1) Does *anyone* here know anyone (or IS someone) who is/was a sysadmin (or
related/married to same) of an F-series HP 1000? If so, can you/they render
any help?
2) Does anyone have access to a set of F-series manuals, especially
installation reference manuals? If so, are they in electronic format; if
not, can you/they bear to part with them for at least as long as it will
take me to scan them?
3) Has anyone got a suitable demuxer? (8-port, takes centronix plug & has 8
D25 socket outputs)
Cheers y'all.
--
Cheers, Ade.
Be where it's at, B-Racing!
http://b-racing.com
Hi Brian,
I have seen on this site http://www.classiccmp.org/
that you are looking for a HP 16C.
If you wish, I can send you a PC emulator of HP 16C.
Regards, Vincent.
cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
>
>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:46:22 -0600
>From: Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com>
>To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: OT: FreeBSD (was: "Real Computers")
>Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>
>Well, here's my OT post for the month.
>
>On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
>
>>I'll try FreeBSD when I've got a spare few hours to download the ISO
>>image.
>>
>>
>
>You might find it easier to install by FTP. It's simple: download two floppy
>disk images, dd 'em to some 3.5s, and reboot. Then install as normal, except
>choose FTP as the install media. It isn't lightning-fast, but you also only
>download the data that you need instead of an entire ISO.
>
>ObClassicCmp: FreeBSD makes a great OS for running classic computing tools
>like SIMH.
>
>
>
>>Slackware is quite stable, probably because Slackware have a "We're not
>>going to hack the Kernel, nor are we going to use any fancy packaging
>>systems or init scripts".
>>
>>
>
>I've heard many people say that Slackware is the most BSD-like of the
>Linuces. Of course, that was on Slashdot, so it must be true.
>
>
I'd recommend going with 4.7 rather than 5.0 since the 5.0 is pretty
much the developer relese for the folks working on the non-stable
version...
Anyone who gets the Simh VAX emulator to use ethernet on FreeBSD will
have my undying gratitude.
There's going to be a 4.8 soon (my box auto-builds weekly from the
4.x-STABLE tree and now is calling itself 4.8-PRERELEASE.)
Bill
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 Frank Arnold <fm.arnold(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org schrieb am 25.02.2003:
> >From: <chu(a)verizon.net>
> >To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> >Subject: Help with my PDP 11/73
> >Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:36:31 -0800
> >
> >I have gotten my PDP 11/73 to
> >start up and go through an initialization
> >script for RSX-11Mplus. However, I do not
> >know any uids/passwords, so I cannot
> >login; I can only watch the script go by.
> >I am able, while the script is running, to break
> >into MCR and run commands like PDP and DMP.
> >I am able to dump in octal
> >some of the files like [0,0]001054.DIR;1.
> >Does anyone know where the user names/passwords
> >are stored? My memory says that the maybe
> >they are not encrypted? Is that so?
>
> The passwords are stored in a file [0,0]RSX11M.sys if I recall it correctley.
> Should be a rather small file, just pip it to the printer to see it, it should
> be an ASCII-file.
> I think that after version 3.2 of rsx11m passwords were encripted, before that,
> in plain text. Copy this file to some other media and delete it from your
> system disk, After a new cold start you should have an open system. with RUN
> $ACNT you can create new user-accounts if you desire.
This should probably be in an FAQ for RSX.
1. The passwords along with all account information is stored in
LB:[0,0]RSX11.SYS
2. The file is not an ASCII file.
3. Passwords in RSX11M are not encrypted, while passwords in RSX11M+ are.
4. (and this is the important one) to break into an RSX system:
When the system boots, abort the startup script.
(If it asks for the time, press ^Z, if it just runs ahead, press
^C and type ABO AT. (the period is *not* optional)).
Run $ACNT, which is the account managing program.
Change password for a system account (anything with a group number
<= 10)
Reboot, and then log in.
A small explanation:
When the system boots, the console terminal is privileged.
The startup script normally finished by logging out the console.
If you stop it before that, you'll remain logged in at a
privileged terminal.
This can be regarded as a security problem. Normally it wasn't,
since people are not supposed to have access to the console
terminal of a computer. It's locked away inside the computer hall.
If you want to, you can protect yourself against this exploit,
but noone does.
Johnny
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|| on a psychedelic trip
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