test-drb June 2003

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by paularts＠home.nl

I want to work my Art EPP-2 programmer but i lost the software google doesn't have what i'm looking for any of you pherhaps (its for the 27 and 28 series) Paul

21 years, 1 month

Apollo Domain, Aegis, etc

by cube1＠charter.net

I'd be interested. I have a DN 3500, and also have tapes (in fact, a while back I offered to *give* away my duplicates, but had no takers. Jay Jaeger At 08:52 PM 4/6/2003 -0500, Tothwolf wrote: >I just acquired what seems to be a fairly complete set of tapes for an >Apollo system running Domain/OS. I was planning to make images of the >tapes, and wondered if anyone might be looking for any of this software? > >Here is a condensed list of the tapes: > AEGIS 9.6.1, tapes 1 and 2 > AEGIS 9.7, tapes 1 and 2 > TCP/IP 3.0 > DOMAIN/IX 9.5 > NFS 1.0 > NFS 2.0 > DPCC 3.1 > CC 4.8 > CC 4.89 > CC 6.6 M/6.5 MPX > FTN 9.38 > FTN 9.66 > FTN 10.6 M/10.5 MPX > Interleaf 4.0.66, tapes 1 and 2 > >Some of the (DC600?) tapes have bad drive belts, but that should be pretty >simple to correct. > >-Toth --- Jay R. Jaeger The Computer Collection cube1(a)charter.net

21 years, 1 month

Teletype: Problems again

by toresbe＠ifi.uio.no

I have recently bought colour tape for the 33. The printer has a black substance that pushes the printhead towards the paper. This has dissolved into an oily-like thing, and there is zero pressure for the head against the paper. I will try to put a licorice candy (L?kerol) in its place as a kludge, but it very likely won't last. Do you know what causes it? Where to get a new one? Is that SUPPOSED to happen?' Confused Regards -Tore

21 years, 1 month

Qbus Backplanes

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 5, 16:19, Tothwolf wrote: > Since we are on the subject of VAXen... > > What would be the most likely problem with a BA123 MicroVAX II that powers > up, but sometimes totally locks up during the diagnostics? (I'm not even > sure it can boot, as some of the RD53s sound a little sick.) I've pretty > much eliminated the boards as the cause, and the only things left are the > backplane and power supply. It does have those older power supply to > backplane wiring harness cables, which I guess I need to replace before I > put many boards in the card cage. Could be voltage drop between PSU and backplane, resulting in low voltage on the cards. Part of the problem with the harness (which was discussed here some months ago, in a different context) is that parts go high-resistance. Check the voltage (especially the +5V) on one of the cards. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 1 month

Web is just a fancy 3270 session

by dgari＠msn.com

(quote) I was just typing a message into a web forum, hit the post reply button, and while I am waiting I realize, SHEESH, this is just an graphical upgrade of the 3270 CICS I was running 20 years ago. Except not as fast. (end quote) There are other differences: No viri. No pop-ups. No spam. No anonymous morons. No evil cookies dropped onto your machine, 3rd party or otherwise. No audio, just peace and (beep) quiet. Oh yeah; no graphics, no mouse, no point-and-click. If the speed bothers you, get a faster connection. I just wonder if improving the user interface to the point where monkeys can use it is an evolutionary step forward or backward.... -David Gari _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

21 years, 1 month

Cool little modulator

by cb＠mythtech.net

>>Its an RGB -> NTSC modulator for the Apple IIc. It also came with a >>game/TV switch box, but I don't know if that was originally part of the >>package, or just a seperate item that was included in the auction. > > >COOL >I don't know anythng about them, but have been curious for some time. >Please report all you know, post picts, play with it, etc. > >OTOH maybe I am thinking about the thing for the IIc+ Sellam indicated that he thinks the modulator came with all IIc's, but I have to question... Why? The IIc already has a composite video out, so why also ship with the modulator. For that matter... why make the modulator at all?!? If the IIc has composite video, why bother with an RGB to composite? Does the IIc+ not have the composite? I would not be surprised if the Computer/TV slide switch shipped with all IIc's, much like they shipped with all Atari 2600's. Just a cheap item to toss in so people can connect it to their TV set. But including an apparently redundant function modulator, that just seems silly. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years, 1 month

Optimem 600 worm drives

by rjkulman＠optonline.net

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21 years, 1 month

Unknown Apple 2 cards

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> It's the only card of the bunch besides the ROM programmer (which I also > have) that I recognize. yep - someone's found the user manual for me (complete with details on how to hack the card to work with 27128 chips - ahhh, the good old days of computing!) luckily everything the card needs is in ROM so I'm not missing any software for it. Hope it still works, I could certainly make use of it! > This is truly one cool lot of Apple cards. I have a lot more too, but most of them are more common - disk interfaces, SSC cards, Epson printer interfaces etc. There's four different audio cards too I think, three of which are homebrewed and one which has four 40-pin ICs on it; I'm yet to identify that last one. Unfortunately no SCSI or network controllers (so far anyway!) - that would have been nice :-) I'm still to see what I've left in the machines themselves but they're way too buried to get at presently. I know both my ProFile interface boards are in the Apple /// but other than that I don't know. > really like to know what the IC Tester does (though I think it's pretty > obvious ;) Well I did a search via deja/google and someone managed to get hold of the software a couple of years back, so it might be floating around somewhere. That IC tester and the programmer could probably do useful work for me; I just need to hook one of the Apple systems up to the PC somehow so it can communicate with the outside world. Probably be via serial, but if I had a SCSI card in the Apple in theory it could share a SCSI bus with the PC would would be interesting :) (I've only ever seen that done between two identical modern SGI boxes - not between hardware with a 20 year time difference!) cheers Jules

21 years, 1 month

Slightly OT

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I couldn't help but pass this on: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3611062497&category=40129 later Dwight

21 years, 1 month

Systems Enhancement Corporation Power Administrator 800

by Paul.HILLS＠uk.landisgyr.com

Of course there is no "standard" 9-pin serial connector, except what has become standard just by virtue of mass usage on the PC. The original IBM PC had standard 25 pin connectors of course. Even that serial port was not a standard RS232, since the RS232 standard also has a second serial link on pins 14 and 16, along with all the control signals for the secondary link, which the PC didn't have (as far as I'm aware). I've never seen an RS232 comms link fully populated and used to the standard though! It is unlikely that any other equipment would conform to the PC world's 9-pin 'standard' unless it is quite new. Most recent test equipment tends to use the 25 pin connector if it has a serial port at all. The standard for test equipment (and probably UPSs as well) is GPIB (IEEE-488) which is parallel. paul -----Original Message----- From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net] Sent: 05 June 2003 21:22 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Systems Enhancement Corporation Power Administrator 800 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Feldman, Robert wrote: > It might be that the DE-9's don't have a standard PC serial pinout. At > work, we have a UPS that uses a DE-9 for programming, but the pinout on > the cable (a 940-0024C; Googling produces a number of hits) is > > Female Male > 1-4 > 2------------2 > 3------------1 > 5------------6 > 6 NC > 7-8 > 9 NC Let me guess...APC? :) Their ports are very fun, since if you plug in a standard serial cable, and open the port, it can turn off the UPS. The UPS' port supports both a dump-mode DTR/RTS/etc signaling as well as a smart-mode. The cable above is their "smart" cable. The 1-4 and 7-8 connections are also not needed if you are not using 3rd party software such as NUT, as they are just loop back connections. -Toth

21 years, 1 month

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test-drb June 2003