test-drb February 2003

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by ekklein＠pacbell.net

This is truly amazing. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3403344993 I have no affiliation with this auction whatsoever. I do wonder what my wife would say if I bought this, though. "Honey, clear out the guest room, I have a mainframe coming!" Erik S. Klein www.vintage-computer.com

21 years, 10 months

Need Read-It! v1.02 and/or v1.1 OCR software/manual by Olduvai (for Mac)

by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm looking for a copy of Read-It! v1.02 and/or v1.1 by Olduvai (for the Macintosh). This is OCR software circa 1987-1988. The important thing is the manual. I don't really need the software at this point. There i$ a bounty for thi$. If you have this then please contact me directly at <sellam(a)vintage.org>. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

21 years, 10 months

was Re: Identifying a Motolora chip -now OT Elk on runway

by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/24/03 11:21:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, mike(a)ambientdesign.com writes: > It's also interesting to hear that cows on the runway isn't only a New > Zealand phenomenon... > > We lost a Lear Jet here at the Warrenton, Oregon Airport when it hit a 1500 pound Roosevelt Elk halfway down the runway on an early morning takeoff last October. Totally trashed the Lear Jet, the Elk was in 500 pieces but the pilot and passengers were OK and able to get out of the plane before it totally burned. We had a herd of about 50 Elk living on the airport flats. Now they have an Elk proof fence that I swear will cause hard drives to fail when you drive across the grat-t-t-t-ting to get to our local UPS drop off center. The Lear Jet was over 10 years old so to get this on topic does anyone know if the older Lear Jets used computers and what kind? Paxton Astoria, OR

21 years, 10 months

QBUS SCSI card...

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> The truth is, if you are willing to wait, I've even seen some go as low as > the $40+ > to $60+ range? With some, condition might be poor, or they may not be > operational > and be being sold as is, but they might also be just fine. That's the eBay > gamble. I > do remember the MTI QTS-25 I had sold on eBay a couple of years ago to > Zane went for only $50 The thing to remember is that the controllers in that price range are tape only. For example, that MTI QTS-25 was tape only as I recall (or to put it another way, I don't recall buying any SCSI controllers on eBay that weren't tape only :^) The jump in value from Tape only to disk only is pretty huge, then there is a lesser jump in value from Disk only to Disk/Tape. Zane

21 years, 10 months

DEC disk drive power consumption (was Re: QBUS SCSI card...)

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> --- Doc Shipley <doc(a)mdrconsult.com> wrote: > > I do know that my MVIII uses a hack of a lot less power booting off a > > remote disk than it did spinning up 3 MFM drives. I can only assume > > that the RAxx use even more juice. > > Dunno about anything as new as an RA9x, but the RA81 draws 30A surge > current (which is why they have that daisy-chain power sequencer port), > and 8A steady-state. That's a big honkin' motor in there, plus several > square feet of controllers. I'd recommend RA7x instead. The RA9x drives are 8", while the RA7x drives are 5.25". Zane

21 years, 10 months

Fwd: Free to good home VRT-19

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

Posted to comp.sys.dec, please respond directly to jfedorko(a)rangersys.com > Subject: Free to good home VRT-19 > From: "Joel" <jfedorko(a)rangersys.com> > Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 17:03 EST > Message-id: <1Yacnbd0keSd28SjXTWckQ(a)giganews.com> > > Free to good home, a DEC VRT19 worked fine the last time I powered it up (2 > years ago). I need the space. > Available for pickup between Baltimore and DC. > > Drop me a note a jfedorko(a)rangersys.com if you are interested.

21 years, 10 months

TU58 Emulation (was: M9312 Bootstrap Questions)

by jss＠subatomix.com

Frank Arnold wrote: > I hope you can boot anything else, do you have a DL11-W? You could use > this with a PeeCee emulated TU58 for diagnostics ect. Two questions. First, has anyone here emulated a TU58 successfully in software? I searched through the archives and found lots of posts that say "you could" and none that say "I did". If it's doable, what software should I use? I found this: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/utils/t… Second, where do I get the diagnostics to load over the emulated TU58? -- Jeffrey Sharp

21 years, 10 months

SCSI cards

by geoffr＠zipcon.net

At 02:37 PM 2/24/03 -0500, you wrote: >What was the name of the German company? I don't remember :( I wish I still had my Rainbow hardware guide, they were listed in there :(

21 years, 10 months

HP1000 F & A700 - pictures

by aek＠spies.com

Does anyone have access to a set of F-series manuals, especially installation reference manuals? -- I have over 100 manuals for HP's 16 bit series. Most have been scanned some are up at www.spies.com/aek/pdf/hp Unfortunately, with the exception of the FE handbooks, HP tended to put out dozens of small manuals which scatters the information that you need out all over the place.

21 years, 10 months

HP1000 F & A700 - pictures

by glenslick＠hotmail.com

Look here: http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/hp/1000/ When you open the front panel of the HP1000F does it have a sticker inside with 1 - 4 numbers of the form 12992A - 12992L ? Those are the loader ROM part numbers. Take a look at the document 12992-90001_loaderRomsApr86.pdf which describes the various loader ROMs which you may have installed in your CPU. The document also describes how to load and execute the loader ROMs. >From: Adrian Vickers <avickers(a)solutionengineers.com> > >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?

21 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2003