I should have said Hello before my first post. I just found out about this list. It seems quite impressive and very useful. I know I will get much use from it. Hopefully I can answer a question ever now and then too.
Tim Radde
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This was heading out towards the dumpster today, so I grabbed it. From
what our network admin told me, this router is from the early 1990s.
It looks like Livingston made several varieties of these plain gray
boxes. The identifying markings on this one are very sparse, so I can't
provide much in the way of info about /exactly/ which model this is.
Dimensions are 3.2" x 16.8" x 11.5" and it weighs around 12 lbs. It has
a DB-25F console/diag port. It has another DB-25F port that's
switchable between RS-232 and V.35 (so, presumably, you could hook up a
slower serial device or a T1/E1 device to this). And then it has a
choice of RJ-45, BNC, or AUI ethernet port. The only identifying
marking of note apart from the "PortMaster Internetwork Router" on the
front is small label which reads "Model: IRX S/N: 1A13813".
Some info related to the Livingston and their products can be found
here: <http://portmasters.com/>.
This one does power up and I was able to get a login prompt by
connecting a terminal to the diag port with a null modem cable at 9600
8-N-1. The login and password are unknown. The condition of it is also
unknown, though it's believed to have been working when it was taken out
of service a number of years ago.
Available to the first taker for US$2 + shipping to anywhere in the US
or Canada from zip code 90232. It won't be until sometime next week
that I'll have the time to pack, estimate shipping, and send this out.
-brian.
See below and respond to the original sender.
Reply-to: <paulmoadib(a)aol.com>
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:17:39 -0800
From: Philip Baily <paulmoadib(a)aol.com>
To: vcf(a)siconic.com
Subject: VCF Feedback!
Do you know of anyone with a SOROC IQ 120 Terminal for sale? (I can offer
$100.00+ for it if is in good working condition.)
Also, I am looking for a copy of Northstar DOS / BASIC to run my NS
Horizon computer. Do you know of anyone who might be able to help me get a
copy?
Many thanks,
Phil Baily
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This is a follow-up to a message I posted on Monday.
I am looking for some early (circa 1990) antivirus software made by a
company called Iris (maybe spelled "iRiS"). This may have gone under the
names of "Virus-Free", "Antivirus" and "Antivirus Plus" (sometimes in
combination with the company name "IRIS"). The software was distributed
by Iris and the software apparently written by Computers of Israel.
The iRiS software was included in the system software that came with an
Arche computer of the same vintage (1989-1990). It is the software that I
am really after but the computer also has some use.
If you tried contacting me about this but had your message bounce it was
because I was moving my server around. Sorry. Please try again.
I have posted bounties of $200 for the computer and $100 for the software.
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hi,
this is sort of off-topic as it applies to my TV and not a computer, but I bet
some of the folks here can offer advice... :)
the microcontroller in the set seems to have developed a fault which only
appears when the set's warm. Tracking down a replacement seems to be easier
said than done as the chip was obviously discontinued a while back (and then
I'd have to worry about the on-board ROM anyway).
At the moment though there's no heatsink on the chip - if I do stick a heatsink
on it in the hope that it keeps it cool enough to operate, is it still likely
to fail at a later date anyway? Once a chip's started to exhibit heat-related
problems is that basically the end of it even if something's done about the
cooling? I figure some of you people will likely know about these things :)
(the chip in question is a ST9293J9B1/AEL for the record, but no infomation
appears to exist on the web or on ST's site for it; wish I could get pin-outs
to check that it is the chip and not surrounding circuitry that's failing)
cheers!
Jules
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Further information ..
The FACIT tape drive can be used an a PDP 11/34, see ..
www.tno.nl/instit/fel/museum/computer/en/comp783E.html
The AMPEX hard drive is 10MB, ST506 interface, full height
5.25"
Lee.
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Tony Duell provides us with an exemplary indicator of the true
collector:
>
>and give you a nasty (and possibly fatal) shock, or worse still do
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>serious damage to said classic computer.
>
Collectors are many; vintage computers, few!
;}
Cheers
John One-Hand-In-Back-Pocket-At-All-Times Lawson
>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>
>> MTR-90 is in the ROM on the 89's CPU board. My MTR-90 manual indicates
>
>[...]
>
>> It certainly seems as if you can run both controllers in one machine.
>
>You most certainly can. My Z90 (essentially the same machine -- AFAIK the
>differences are that it came fully assembled ('Z', not 'H'), and came
>with 64K RAM, has MTR-90, the hard sector controller and the
>double-density soft sector controller. The former is cabled to the single
>built-in drive, the latter to an external drive box.
>
>It will boot either HDOS or CP/M, and can use both types of disks
>
>-tony
>
The Z90 is built to be 64K a H89 isn't. As far
as I recall, the H89 took more than a simple jumper or
switch to make it CP/M compatable.
Also, one should note that HDOS came in both hard and soft sectored.
Dwight
The ibm 5161 expansion box was designed for use with
the ibm pc.
the pc had fewer slots then the later released pc xt
and it's power supply was too small to handle a hard
drive.
the exp box added a hard drive to the system and
provided extra card slots ( i think the box also had
additional bios or came with an extra fixed disk rom
chip that went into the pc).
the card that connects to the ribbon cables that come
>from the exp box goes into one of the pc's card slots.
i cannot remember if it is slot specific or if it can
go into any slot - there is a plate on the pc's back
that removes to allow the ribbon cables to exit the
case.
a local retired ibm ce had asked me years ago if i had
ever seen one - as he was looking for one at the time.
i was told that the expansion box was a little rare
because, shortly after the pc was released that pc xt
was released .
the pc xt has a large enough power supply to support
a hard drive as well as the bios to operate one and it
has eight card slots.
Bill
Message: 44
From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: IBM 5161
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:25:09 +0100
Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Hi collecting folks,
A surprise consignment arrived for me this morning -
an IBM 5150 in not
bad
condition complete with keyboard/monitor and a 5161
expansion box,
spare
expansion card and 2 extender cables.....reading the
classiccmp
archives
back to 1998 makes me think I should be impressed
since the 5161 isn't
that
common? It all apparently works but I won't be able to
set it up fully
till
tomorrow. Not much info about it on the web either,
though because 5161
is
obviously bits of a phone number there's a very high
signal to noise
ratio.....
cheers
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