test-drb September 2003

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by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Hi, I don't suppose anybody happens to know the right value of terminating resistors to use on a Research Machines network? I was thinking of doing a health check on my old 480Z fileserver, but can't remember what values I used last time. I'm almost certain they were 50 ohm, but it'd be nice to know for sure. cheers Jules ===== Backward conditioning: putting saliva in a dog's mouth in an attempt to make a bell ring. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

21 years

Old Computer Usage

by dzubint＠vcn.bc.ca

On Thu Sep 18 14:49:22 2003, Robert Little wrote: > Okay, just a quick show of hands... > How many of us out there actually use the systems we > have on a fairly regular basis? Personally, all of my ... (Sorry, I'm a bit late to this thread) This might be stretching the definition of "Old Computer", but... I use my 1978-era TI-57 programmable calculator daily and when I'm stressed out, I still pull out my circa-1989 GameBoy with Tetris or I head to my basement and plug in the Mattel Intellivision for a game or two. My 1989/1990 VAXen get regular use surfing the 'net (I use the Lynx text browser...I'm a die-hard text/command line guy) (although my VAX consoles are fairly new '386 laptops running MS-Kermit) Thomas Dzubin

21 years

Reviving and connecting an ASR33

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

For styrene, butyrate, and ABS (and the plastics in HP -- at least calculators and 95/200LX -- and grey Toshiba laptop cases), try Tenax 7R, available at well-supplied hobby shops or mailorder from Micro-Mark (www.micromark.com). It's a water-thin solvent. For wider cracks, you can disolve some plastic in a small amount of solvent and flow that into the crack. -----Original Message----- From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:14 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Reviving and connecting an ASR33 <snip> Plastic model cement is pretty much useless these days, as they have removed nearly all of the solvent type chemicals from the product. <snip>

21 years

VAX 11/780 is getting ready to run, UDA50 diagnostics, how?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, with great pleasure I can announce that I have my VAX 11/780 almost running. If you search the archives you will recall that I got an error in the microdiagnostics at test 54. If I had only paid attention to what someone had written on the label of the micro diagnostics floppy label: "remove ethernet card or test 54 will fail!". With that card removed, the test succeeded. The basic CPU diagnostics fails since last winter though (failing module: M8230) but other tests are still passing, so I expect I can replace that module later. >From my selfmade DUABOO file the machine does run for a moment but then hangs during the boot and the disk is never accessed. My UDA50 card actually does something: the LED cycling pattern stops and the other LED set signals that it's stuck in phase 3 of something. But hey, that is good news, since it means that the boot process actually talks to the UDA50 on the UNIBUS!!!! Tonight I'm going to check the UNIBUS wiring in section C, where that special bridge needs to be interrupted. This could explain why the UDA50 isn't functioning properly. Now some question to you veterans: I actually have a UDA50 diagnostics floppy and also a DIAG SUPERVISOR floppy. Yet I don't know how to run any of those. Don't even know how to look at the directory of those floppies, because @DIR is a command file that is only on the console floppy. So, how is this diagnostics started? I even have a second RX01 floppy drive installed, just don't know how to use it with the console program (I guess I would like to make myself some copies of the critical floppies before bitrot sets in.) Finally, since I now have the 11/785 board set and KA785 backplane complete, does anyone have the console and diagnostics floppies for the 11/785? thanks,, -Gunther

21 years

3Com EtherLink/MC

by cb＠mythtech.net

Was someone on this list looking for a 3Com EtherLink/MC card? Its an MCA bus Ethernet card with BNC and AUI connectors. I have one. I'm taking offers for it (all offers must be at least $1.00 plus shipping). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years

Reviving and connecting an ASR33

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Sep 22, 3:14, Tothwolf wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Ian Primus wrote: > > > The cover is cracked, but that isn't really a big deal. I should be able > > to glue it back together. What type of glue is recommended for teletype > > plastic? Just regular wacky glue, or some sort of epoxy? > > For ABS plastics, a Methylene Chloride based solvent works very very well. > (It does not work very well for ABS+PC blends, however. I seriously doubt > you have any ABS+PC in the ARS33 though, since it is a pretty modern > plastic.) I repaired mine with MEK. I believe Tenax 7R (which Robert Feldman mentioned) is based on acetone, so it should be fairly similar. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years

ISO: Cheap/Free rack cabinet

by cb＠mythtech.net

Anyone in the NJ area have a spare rack cabinet they want to part with for cheap or free? I have to consolidate three different groups of servers all into one closet, and I think a rack cabinet may make my life easiest. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years

FS: NorthStar Software

by RMaxwell＠atlantissi.com

Chris and Joe: I would like to express my interest in the NorthStar software, with this added little problem: the Horizon I have (free from a ham fleamarket) came with very little: no drives, one bootable disk, original owner's binder and some ACCPAC documentation. The drives were no problem, since the hardware accepted PC-leftover drives without issue. The bootable 5-1/4" floppy I carefully stored in such a safe place I can't find it anymore. I presume it's NDOS - I know it's not CP/M. I'm running Word- and CalcStar on my Kaypro, and I'm presuming that the -Stars you folks have are also CP/M applications... So a bootable N*CP/M disk would be essential to let me get the olde beast back on its feet/wheels/whatever. I'm located in Southern Ontario, Canada (Toronto region), and I'm willing to finance travel arrangements for disks and books - they're probably lighter than the computer itself! Let me know if you can help me out. If not, anybody local interested in a used NorthStar Horizon? I'm already running: Osborne-1 (not doing much since it was the Vancouver TurboBBS 1984-86), Kaypro 2-84 (general purpose terminal, floppy format converter and Ladder game), OSI Superboard (6502 development base for homebrew box), Amstrad PPC512 (packet radio terminal), 6502 homebrew (house watcher, soon to learn X-10), Sharp PC-1211 (BASIC calculator), Macintosh (another free box, previous owner wiped everything, including Netscape) and two '486 PeeCees... (I don't have spare room for non-working boxen :-) Regards, Bob > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:23:03 -0400 > From: chris <cb(a)mythtech.net> > Subject: FS: NorthStar Software > > I found a black boxed set of NorthStar software. The box it marked > InfoStar System, with three binders in it, DataStar, ReportStar, and > ReportStar Reference Manual. > > It appears to be complete, manuals and software. I'm guessing > it is some > kind of database and reporting system. I don't know exactly > what it is as > it has been years since I've even had a NorthStar computer. > > Its available if anyone wants it. Just send me any offer over > the cost of > shipping (must be higher than shipping cost... basically, I've got no > spare time to do things for free). > > If it doesn't sell here, I'll try it on ebay, and then it goes to the > dumpster. > > -chris > <http://www.mythtech.net> > > > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:38:41 -0400 > From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> > Subject: Re: FS: NorthStar Software > >... > These are companion products to WordStar. They use wordstar > files and are > used for keeping databases and generating reports. There are > a couple of > othe related products; Mail-Merge and CalcStar (IIRC). > > Keep in mind that these are HARD SECTORED floppy disks! I > don't think > they're readable on any system except those that have a NS > disk system. > > I have a couple of NIB NS WordStar packages around here > somewhere. If no > one else wants them I'll add these to the collection. > > Joe > > >

21 years

Kennedy 9610 manual needed (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

Can anyone help this guy out? See below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:11:28 +0100 From: "Davis, Duane -Gil" <Duane.Davis(a)itt.com> To: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> Subject: RE: Kennedy 9610 manual Hi, Thank you for your quick response. I need the manual yesterday. Actually, I have a tape drive that I don't know if the drive is bad, or I have a BIG batch of bad tapes. There are buttons on the front of the drive that are for diagnostics, but I don't know how to run them. Again, thank you for the quick response. Duane Davis -----Original Message----- From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:03 AM To: Davis, Duane -Gil Subject: Re: Kennedy 9610 manual On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Davis, Duane -Gil wrote: > I am trying to locate a manual for a Kennedy 9610 tape drive, hopefully in > pdf format. Hi Duane. I'm sorry but I don't have anything handy. I'm pretty sure I have this manual but it's tucked away in one of hundreds of boxes (I'm still unpacking after a move). How urgently do you need it? -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

21 years

DEC Server

by dave＠mitton.com

On 9/19/2003 10:17 AM -0500, cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote: >From: "Antonio Carlini" <arcarlini(a)iee.org> >To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Subject: RE: DEC Server >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:15:40 +0100 > > > Also, they used RSX taskbuilder images. Guess they were > > using an 68K cross-assembler setup then.... > >IIRC the last stage of producing a downloadable image for >the various DEMSA images involved sticking a header on >the front which the code referred to as RSX-style or some such. ... old random neurons fired and spat... That may have been for the benefit of the host server's MOP process. It already knew how to download DEC binary files, and someone figured out how to put the new 68K image in the same file format. Dave (a former LKG digit, but not on terminal server team). (this is not what I came to this list to remember...)

21 years

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test-drb September 2003