test-drb February 2003

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by shawnmhoffman＠yahoo.com

Hello, I just thought of something which might be of interest to someone out there. Several years ago I got ahold of a monsterous main-frame type hard drive. I really have no idea what kind of system it came from, but the box was about three feet long, one foot tall, and one foot wide (as I remember it). The disks inside were about 8-10 inches across (I could see them through a little window in the casing). You could turm two screw like things on the front of the box and then lift the cover. Inside was the disk assembly and then another panel of electronics that would swing down from the cover of the box. This whole monster weighed about 60 pounds or so I would say. On the back were two receptacles for connecting it to whatever computer it originally came from. The plugs that plugged into the recepticles were sqaure as I remember it and there was a flat 1" wide cable that came out of each plug. The cables had been cut off of so I don't know what the other end looked like. On the front of the box there were two or three buttons I think. Probably one reset, one power on/off, and one lock/unlock--that's what I seem to recall. Anyway, I took this hard drive back where I got it from because I couldn't figure out any use for it. But if any of you know how to connect this thing to something and are interested in it I may be able to get it back again. It's been out in the weather for several years, but from my experience wheather doesn't affect computers much--the older ones at least. I have gotten some computers that were snowed and rained on and had mud splattered all over them, but they still worked. There was even one computer I got where the battery had leaked all over the mother board and started to eat it away.....but it still worked!! Needless to say, I was amazed!! Well, let me know if you are intersted in this hard drive. I am raising money for a mission trip and that's part of the reason I wondering if this has any value to anybody. Also I hate to see it "rot" out there. ;-) I can't send you any pictures of the drive itself because I don't have it right now, but I think I do have the cable lying around here yet. I could send pics of that or try to describe it if that would help any. By the way, I think the brand name on this device may have been "Digital"; I could be wrong, but a lot of the other parts I got there were made by the "Digital" company so I suspect the hard drive may have been too. (I also have a large plug-in electronics board from some main-frame type computer that I got at the same place if anybody has an interest in that). I know old main-frame parts have value to the right person and I wouldn't mind trying to get it if someone is interested, but please be sure you are really seriously interested before you ask me to get it! :-) It is more than likely buried under a lot of junk and I would have to dig it out which could be quite a job!! But I would be more than willing to try and get it if you are seriously interested; I just don't want to go through all that work and then be stuck with it myself. :-) I can try to describe it better if that would help, but I'll wait to see if anybody has an interest first. Take care all, Shawn :-) Smile, God loves you!!

21 years, 8 months

Looking for info on UNISYS UN6065 B50 system

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Got UNISYS UN6065 yesterday at an auction and got only two hits on Google site both no good. Any one know were I can find more? Thanks

21 years, 8 months

DEC Extenders up for auction

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Onwers of DEC Qbus or UniBus boxes; It may interest you to know that I've put up a pair of DEC'ish card extenders for auction on E-pay. Here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=3401378577 There's a dual-height and a quad-height, selling as a pair, starting at $10.00. Thanks for putting up with another ad. ;-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, 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)

21 years, 8 months

OT: SC/SC couplers available (was: Re: 10Base-FL)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 9, 9:52, Adrien Farkas wrote: > _these_ 'simplex' aren't really simples, they're duplex, but connected > not side by side, but opposite, which makes a need to cut all my sc > cables into two simplex, which I'd like to avoid. I called it 'simplex', > because I wasn't able to describe it properly. Oh, I see. Yes, hard to describe concisely, I suppose they're a sort of "dual simplex" ;-) > hmm, i might to move to STs, but ut's fddi cabling systems and all my > cards are either SC or MIC (FDDI), so I might need bunch of ST cables > and pigtails. sure, ebay is my friend, but you know, shipping this stuff > to europe is quite expensive ;) and I have lots of fddi & sc cables > already, just missing some stuff to connect it together, this is wher > the couplers come. The fibre in my house and workshop is 50/125 FDDI stuff recovered from work. We don't use FDDI any more so I liberated several 10-metre and 20-metre patch cables, cut off the MICs, and re-terminated them with STs. The tools and materials I needed to do that cost about ?100 from TechOptics (luckily, I could borrow a microscope, so I didn't have to buy that) and it's not hard to do. TechOptics don't have prices on their website but they're much cheaper than most catalogues, and quite helpful on the phone. http://www.techoptics.com It took two evenings to reterminate 4 cables, both ends. One evening to strip, wait an hour to let them rest, then crimp and epoxy the STs; the second evening to cleave and polish the ends. I kept a few shorter cables that are ST-to-MIC and acquired a few ST-to-SC cables when I got my ATM kit. Even most of my FDDI kit uses ST or SC connectors; the only thing I have with MIC connectors (other than adaptors for SGI FDDI cards) is an ATM-to-FDDI bridge. I've not done it myself, but someone I know has done a lot of splicing with gel-filled splices, which are quite cheap (though you really need a splice box as well). You can get them from TechOptics too. However, if you already have most of the cables you need, and just want a few couplers, just buy the couplers. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 8 months

HP-85 stuff posted for auction

by Innfogra＠aol.com

A couple of days ago I posted for auction a bunch of HP-85 stuff. More to come as I find it. Includes ROM pacs, a 128K memory pac and a GP-IO & serial interfaces. http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&include=0& userid=innfosale&sort=3&rows=25&since=-1&rd=1 my seller name is innfosale Thanks for putting up with the post. Paxton Astoria, OR

21 years, 8 months

Sharp IQ-3000 language translator?

by evan947＠yahoo.com

Hello out there... anybody have data on the Sharp IQ-3000, a language translator gadget from 1980? All I can find is the miniscule reference below. http://sharp-world.com/corporate/info/his/chronology/p6.html

21 years, 8 months

Odd ideas that I've had lately...

by john_boffemmyer_iv＠boff-net.dhs.org

I was sitting at home reading my latest copy of Mouser (component catalog) and I came across LCD GUI touch screen kits and Zilog Z80 kits with USB, Serial and 100Mbit Ethernet. My head being screwed up from pain killers (on worker's comp from slipping on ice at a client's), tried to put 2+5 together to get 4 and gave me an expensive (maybe not) idea. Palms and Visors and the like are really small and great for many tasks, but what if I could take a similar processor, say a Dragonball, an ARM or the even an older one (maybe even a mobile RISC-based CPU - now that would be cool) and link them into a slightly larger and more useful hand-held that has USB, Serial and Ethernet with AD and DC capabilities and toss it into a steel box with rubber seals and rubber/knurled steel outsides and a thin plastic piece covering the display with a metal lock-back cover. I know there are knock-off covers out there for the Visor and the Palm that are sold separately, but the palm doesn't have built in USB or Ethernet or Serial, you are stuck with a bulky add-on or a cradle. What If someone could get around that? Anyone have some thoughts to it? Next leap into less than sanity... I actually considered sitting down and getting a prototype board from another mail order company the other day to build my own AT P200MMX motherboard with PC100/133 SD-RAM support, AGPx and ISA/PCI. Now here's where the idea for this would require the prototype board: built in USB and Ethernet and possibly SCSI on a standard AT board in as small a size as possible while enabling use of as many slots in the back of an AT case for the AGPx, PCI and ISA. I was thinking of using something like an AMD-based Ethernet chip with the prototype board's VIA motherboard chipset. Anyone have comments? Kind of lame or just expensive and nuts? -John Boffemmyer IV ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------

21 years, 8 months

Working pga adapter, monitor and manual

by dan.stanger＠ieee.org

Free for shipping from Denver, CO 80222. One catch, you have to take the 286 computer its in.

21 years, 8 months

Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>> ... Leisure Suit Larry 1, too. > >Hey! I still have LSL1 1.0 - 5.25" original disks, not a copy (fished it >out of a pile of debris left by a departing college student a number of >years ago) > >It's... um... a *classic*! Ah, but do you have "SoftPorn" the game that LSL-1 was a rip off of? I played that on my Apple II eons ago (I just saw it on one of the game archive links that passed thru this list recently in anyone wanted to DL it) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years, 8 months

OT: SC/SC couplers available (was: Re: 10Base-FL)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 7, 13:44, Adrien Farkas wrote: > pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com) wrote : > > >SMAs suck big time, and couplers for STs are expensive. ^^ Oops, did I really write that? I meant that couplers for SCs are expensive; ST couplers are cheap. > a propos fiber couplers, does anyone have a few they might miss? I'm > after SC/SC couplers preferrably with direct SC duplex connector > pluggable. I might get a few, but those aren't ready for duplex > connectors, just single SC simplex. Duplex ones are just two simplex ones side by side. Use tape or glue. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 8 months

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test-drb February 2003