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Okay cool find for the day.
I just got myself an Indigo2 R8000.
and the cool thing is I actually got a copy of IRIX 6.5 with it, I now
have IRIX media Yay!
it also has another network card installed in the machine, plus some
video capture board, but unfortunately with out the breakout box.
at present just installing Irix on this machine, as the original
install had /usr as a NFS share..
anyway a nice machine to add to my collection of way too much stuff.
(already been told off from the significant other about it ;) )
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I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care
Billy Bragg 1983
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I have a bunch of old Sun tapes I need to get rid of, as I no longer run
any Sun-3 or Sun-4 machines. Most of these are real Sun distributions
(although they look cheesy) of SunOS 4.1 and 4.1.1, plus SunLink and
Openwindows. There also might be some third party stuff. I think all of
these tapes actually have data on them, but I no longer have a suitable
tape drive to verify them (so maybe expect a few to be flakey).
Anyone need these tapes (about 13 1/4" QIC-24, I
think) for cheap? For the lot - $8 plus shipping for 10512?
I thik I also have quite a few unused 1/4" tape carts, also cheap. Real
cheap.
Contact me off list...
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
On Feb 13, 9:37, John Allain wrote:
> > The plastic keys are actually a slightly different size. All the
> > ones I've seen are beige plastic (but they may be slightly
> > later, mostly from Alphas).
>
> For reference I have two DEC plastic keys here:
> 1217119-01 grey marked "'digital' and 'Anti Static'
> 1217606-0-0 blue marked "'digital' and 'REMOTE'
>
> the keying part is just a single tooth on a 1cm cylinder.
>
> The first is for BA213,BA215 cabinets (at least),
> they work in pre-alpha uVIII's.
> The blue key is for other purposes I don't know of yet.
The first is what fits my 11/24. Mine say "Anti Static" too.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
All,
Now that I inherited a nice set of StorageWorks enclusures with
an HSZ40C controller, I might as well use it, no? I plan on
connecting it to the primary file server of my "fun" network
(also known as VAXlab, aka pdp11.nl) so I'll have more (and safer)
storage there.
Only prob is.. the HSZ40C has a diff-scsi port, whereas the machines
have SE.
Is this easily converted with a cable, or will I be doing resistor-
balancing and/or use a signal converter box?
Thx,
Fred
the design of having to change
backplane wiring for certain cards seems to be rather... ummmm silly
--
this dates back to the days when a DMA interface wouldn't fit into
a single SPC (small peripheral controller) board.
at least they eventually produced G7273 unibus grant jumpers which
aren't little nasty tear-the-back-of-your-hand-off boards like the
G727's are, and have both BR and bus grant jumpers on them. These
were standard in 11/44's, weren't they? so your SPC slots shouldn't
have the bus grant jumpers on them..
I recently acquired what I believe to be a Heathkit H89. It was
assembled a long time ago by my friend's father, contains a single disk
drive and a monochrome terminal.
My ultimate goal would be to get this thing running CPM and a C
compiler, but first I need to figure out if it's working.
I've yet to determine if it has a hard or soft-sectored disk controller,
but I have some general questions since I don't have any documentation.
First, where can I get some documentation? ; )
Second, when I turn the machine on, all I get is a blinking cursor. If
I depress the "offline" key, I can type characters on the terminal
accompanied by a short beep; if the "offline" key is not depressed, I
get long beeps and nothing on the display. What "should" it do when I
turn it on with no disk in the drive?
I'll be happy to provide more info as I dig it up, but any introductory
details on this system or references to websites, etc. would be greatly
appreciated.
Jason J. Gullickson
mr(a)jasongullickson.com
Hi,
Today I found a Microvax II that is waiting for the scrapper.
The case contains 3 RDXXX HDs, a TK50, Ethernet and some serial line
controllers. And of course the CPU and an unknown amount of memory.
I don't know the part no. of the case but it is the one that is
twice as wide as the BA23 and has wheels.
Seems to be in perfect condition.
If anyone is interested I will roll it to a save place.
It has to be gone during the weekend...
It is located in 57068 Siegen, Germany and free for *pickup* only.
bye
Thilo
Hi,
Last week I found something which I think may be an ancient
NVRAM Module. Sadly I couldn't find any useful information on
the web, except on this page:
http://www.iser.uni-erlangen.de:8980/iser/servlet/Anzeigen45?inventarnummer…
It uses rather large magnetic rods to store data (4x25mm).
The PCB is dated 1972 and it was probably used in a Nixdorf-Computer.
It's called Staebchenspeicher in german (maybe rod-memory in english?).
Does anyone have further information on this module?
bye
Thilo
Hi Curt!
Yes, I know about that site, but they want WAY too
much money for a used adapter for an old computer.
You would think that at this point, they'd be about
$20.00 or so, since I can buy whole ST's for about
that price. I just can't justify spending $150.00 or
more to put a hard drive on a $20.00 computer.
I just want to play...
So, I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll spot something cheap
on eBay or at the Trenton Computer Festival in May.
AERCO was a small Texas company that made little
gadgets for the Atari ST, Amiga and Timex/Sinclair
computers. When I worked for Zebra Systems, Inc. We
sold their products...
Regards,
Al
> From: "Curt Vendel" <curt(a)atarimuseum.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:13:41 -0500
>
> Hi Al,
>
> Never heard of that particular memory board
> before, don't know where you can get a manual.
> For a HD you can go to www.myatari.com and buy
> a "ICD LINK" Adapter which will give your DMA/ASCI
> port full SCSI capabilities, also ask them about
> ExtenDOS Gold, its a drivers disk that will allow
> the TOS to recognize and use CD-ROM drives too, they
> also have a large selection of ST software on
> CDROM's
>
>
>
> Curt
Hey, gang,
Those of you in the Puget Sound area, or near enough to it to get to Kent, WA with a minimum of hassle, may be interested to know that there are three HP 7980S SCSI 9-track tape drives at Boeing Surplus, $50.00 Ea. They look like they were pulls from a big HP mini.
Enjoy!
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Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
