test-drb January 2004

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by rdd＠rddavis.org

The following is a list of some boards that are taking up a lot of space. I still have most of the following. Let me know what you're interested in, what you think they're worth (cash or trade), etc. I've reached the point where I'm tired of them taking up a lot of space and am becoming tempted to just start pulling out all socketed chips and removing the non-socketed chips with a blowtorch. Who wants to save them from such a fate? Pickup preferred. 501-1153 - Sun-2 Ethernet Controller 501-8010 - Sun-3 CPU - which one? 501-1164 - 4MB Sun-3, Carrera (4/75, etc.) 501-1206 - 0MB Sun-3/2xx 501-1206 501-1206 501-1208 - 4MB Sun-3, Carrera (4/75, etc.) 501-1208 501-1208 501-1268 - Graphics accellerator, "Graphics Processor Two" (GP2) 501-1268 501-1268 501-1089 - Sun-3 color double-buffered frame buffer C03 501-1089 501-1116 - Sun-3 color frame buffer CG3 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1116 501-1267 - Sun-3 color frame buffer CG5 501-1267 501-8520 - some sort of color frame buffer w/ "Special products" tag attached 501-1054 - Ungermann Bass CATV network transceiver 501-1139 - Graphics Processor Plus 501-1139 501-8001 - appears similar to the above 501-8001 501-1132 - Carrera memory - 4MB 501-8006 - same as above 501-8006 501-1105 - Floating point accelerator 501-8004 - same as above, I think 501-1166 - Xylogics 451 VMEbus SMD disk controller 501-1249 - Ciprico Tapemaster 1/2" controller 501-1249 501-8011 - looks like one of the above 501-1221 - Sunlink multi-prococol comms processor (MCP) 501-1157 - 16-port board 501-1162 - Sun 3/50 with a Sunflower Computer SFXMX memory board 501-1162 - same as above 501-1158 - Dual 1/2" tape (listing says SunLink serial comm. processor, SCP) 501-1155 - Dual 1/2" tape, Xylogics 472 1/2" tape ctrlr. 9U VMEbus 501-1149 - Sun-2 SCSI host adapter assembly, internal SCSI 501-1149 501-1149 501-1203 - 16-channel asynch. line multiplexer-2 (ALM-2) ???-???? - same as above, no ID tag, no handles 501-1217 - Sun-3 SCSI host adapter assembly, external SCSI 501-1217 501-1217 501-1217 501-1217 501-1217 part number? - Color printer board GPIB-1014-15 - National Instruments GPIB board Systech VPC-2200 on a AVIV VMEbus adapter card 027-100G6 FiberCom WLAN/VME 027-100G2 FiberCom VME Card WhisperNet board with VMSbus interface circuitry only empty VMS-bus "frame"-only boards -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

20 years, 12 months

211BSD install

by chrisc＠addpower.com

I'm doing some research on what it'll take to get 211BSD installed on my PDP after I get all the hardware installed and working correctly. It looks like I'm going to need to make a boot tape to install it. Is there any other method that I could use? I'm also assuming that I will need to get a TK50, a TK70 or the like. I'm going to be installing this system with a SCSI controller that speaks MSCP and (hopefully) TMSCP, and I was really hoping that I could get away with creating the installation tape with the SCSI DAT drive I have... Thanks in advance! Back to reading about the KDJ11-B, Chris

20 years, 12 months

TU80 and F880 magtapes, cleaning and usage?

by felten＠vaxnet.de

Hello, I've connected a Cipher F880 to a qbus pdp11 using a Emulex TC02. Althrough I've got the complete doc for the TC02, I can't get the drive to work correctly. The OS is 2.11BSD, and the error message is: ts0: hard error bn0 xs0=350<MOT,ONL,IES,PED> xs1=2<UNC> xs2=100000<OPM> and somtimes a bn280 I get this message when writing or reading the tape, using tar or dd. I've configured the TC02 to factory defaults, except 22bit addressing is enabled. But should I select Streaming or Formatted mode ? The speed select is currently set to > 50 ips, should I set it to 0-50 ips? Of course it could be the F880, so I tried to use the TU80, but it does not make a big change. The TU80-test (test 01) uses a write-enabled tape to test the drive, sometimes it stops with error code 04 or 06 (the manual is not very specific: error codes 0-9 are read/write errors) and sometimes a 12 (hub not latched). Could it be that my tapemeadia is bad? I've got a Burroughs tape, labeled 23Mar79, and a couple of old tapes form 'eastern germany' without any date. How should I clean the heads of the tapedrives? (used some cleaner for tapedecks) And for the TU80, should I clean the small holes for the air-bearing? I'm not really used to use this kind of gear, so I don't know the common problems using tapes. Regards, Lothar

20 years, 12 months

Musings on 2003

by jrice54＠charter.net

The year 2003 was a pretty good year for me. My Sgi collection grew >from 1 to 15 units (8 are Iris Indigo's from 1992-93 and are now properly "on topic"), Sun's from 3 to 9, I've lost count of Mac's and Mac clones and I gave my Amiga's away to another collector, I finally got that Daystar Millennium that had proved so elusive, my NeXT (all NeXT's are now on-topic) collection grew from 3 to 5 with a ton of new documentation, software and accessories, and I still have not found my MaxxBoxx. I have also had to come to grips with the fact that my space is not infinite. I'm getting better organized, but stuff came in faster than it could be repaired, restored, cataloged or even stored properly. I've started considering purchases more carefully, not just grabbing every thing that crosses my path. Target has probably doubled the sale of Sterlite bins in the State of Texas because of my efforts to sort and organize. Most of all this year has taught me just how much I have to learn to be able to put all of my collection to productive use. I also need to thank my beautiful and patient wife, who didn't even flinch when a semi pulled up to our driveway and dumped three pallets of Sgi equipment behind her Volvo. She has also learned not to question why I need to make a no notice 800 mile round trip to rescue a homeless workstation. To all my fellow collectors, I wish you a Happy New Year. May you find what ever you are seaching for and at a cost much less than you were prepared to pay for it! James Director of The Texas State Home for Wayward and Homeless Computers -- http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html

20 years, 12 months

pdp11/34 restoration : question & items sought

by jos.mar＠bluewin.ch

My recently acquired 11/34 has a few missing parts : the boot proms of the M9301 and the M7850 parity board. It does have 16K mos memory and the full programmer panel. However, when I fire it up, I cannot halt the processor, the RUN light stays on. Could this be due to the missing parts ? And of course, to complement the system, I am looking for the following parts : - the missing items of course - an unibus RL11 controller. Are these rare ? - Some more memory. Jos Dreesen , Zurich Switzerland

20 years, 12 months

Transputer-based Floppies (Highs & Lows of a haul)

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Two years ago, I went down to Bath, England to pick up a major haul of transputer hardware, software, and documentation. The software was a packed box of 5-1/4 inch floppies of various stuff. The person I got this from didn't really care too much about the software and wanted to dump the whole thing in the dumpster. It was a good thing he asked me 1st before doing this! Here are the highs: 1) Found numberous drivers and programs for various transtech and inmos boards (yipee!). These are very hard to come by 2) Found schematics and source for A LOT of transputer boards that were manufactured including PAL equations, gerber files, etc 3) Found *original* disks of Microsoft Quick Basic 4.0, Turbo C, and MS Windows 1.0 Here is the lows: 1) Apparently, some clown overwrote several *ORIGINAL* disks from INMOS with his/her own applications and programs. This is a HUGE disappointment for me as some of the disks were drivers for boards that are almost impossible to get (e.g. B009, B006, Portakit, among other rare stuff) :-( I havent gone over ALL the disks as it is quite large, but I am currently in the process of creating images for several of the disks. Stay tuned.... Cheers, Ram PS: Happy New Year!!!!

20 years, 12 months

Cleaning house (FS/T: lots o' stuff)

by pat＠computer-refuge.org

I'm trying to turn my apartment back into an apartment, instead of the warehouse of machines it currently is... so I'm trying to get rid of some of my machines that i've got multiple of, or no longer have any real interest in. Here's a list of what I'm offering. I'll be putting more stuff on eBay (userid: pfinnegan) but it's mostly going to be OT machines. Also, I purchased an MMJ crimper and a bag of MMJ ends... in order to help subsidize it, i'm offering length-to-spec MMJ cables. If anyone is interested, I'm asking $5 per cable for up to 20ft plus shipping ($3.85 for Priority Mail). If you want multiple cables, ask me and we can work out a deal. I can also do MMJ to RJ45 cables, but won't do RJ45 to RJ45's... network cables are cheap enough. Now, the list: + IBM RS/6000 410: 80MHz PPC601, 2GB HDD, 32MB RAM, CDROM, graphics card (13W3 connector), 2.88MB floppy drive $15 + shipping + IBM RS/6000 410: 80MHz PPC601, 2GB HDD, 64MB RAM, CDROM, graphics card (13W3 connector), 2.88MB floppy drive $20 + shipping On both of the above machines, I don't have the key, but I've removed the pins from the locks so they can be operated with "anything"... + Sun SparcStation 5, 70MHz, 96MB ram, CDROM, floppy, 2GB HDD, CG6 501-2981 narrow scsi/10BaseT ethernet card $10 + shipping + Sun SparcStation 5, 85MHz, 128MB ram, CDROM, floppy, 2GB HDD, CG6 501-2981 narrow scsi/10BaseT ethernet card $15 + shipping + Sun SparcStation 5, 85MHz, 128MB ram, floppy, 2GB HDD, CG6, 501-2981 narrow scsi/10BaseT ethernet card $20 + shipping + DEC DECstation 5000/200: R3000/25MHz, 40MB ram, PMAG-B framebuffer $10 + shipping + DEC DECstation 5000/240: R3400/40MHz, 64MB ram, PMAGB-B framebuffer $15 + shipping + DEC 3000/300LX: 125MHz 61064 Alpha, 32MB RAM, 4GB HDD $20 + shipping + DEC 3000/300: 150MHz 61064 Alpha, 64MB RAM, 4GB HDD $25 + shipping + DEC VAXstation 3100 m38: 2 memory boards (16-24MB ram), 500MB HDD, OpenVMS 7.2 installed (Hobbyist version from Montagar) $15 + shipping + 4x"MBR Systems, Inc" S-100 systems - various CPU, RAM, some A/D cards, a video/keyboard interface card, in a 4-5U rackmount case with the keyboard mounted on the front. Most have 40-48kB ram and some EPROMs shoved into a 64kB static ram card. $20 ea + shipping + SGI IRIS 4D/80 (030-0122 / IP4.5) CPU board with 16MB ram - I no longer had the room for the machine, so it went away and I kept the cpu and some VME cards from it. $5 + shipping + 24x"66 block" telephone connection blocks wired together as 100x2 connections... I picked these up pretty cheaply for no good reason : ) 3 for $5 + shipping I prefer shipping via FEDEX, is from zip 47906. I'll take payment via PayPal or Check... I'll give you the address when you ask me for the item (if you've won it). If you prefer to trade me something for the above, here's what I'm looking for: + Unibus (w/toggles) PDP-11 (this is worth multiple items, of course... I'd probably even be willing to pay something for this) + Parts for above PDP-11 + Seagate ST-251 and ST-225 hard drives (working) + DEC RL02 disk packs (non-red shock indicator) + KA-660 CPU board and cab kit for a vax 4k/200 (S-handles) Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/

20 years, 12 months

WTB: TU80 or other 9-track tape New Mexico, Arizona, West Texas

by ceo＠coherent-logic.com

Needs to be a TU80 or have a Unibus interface card to use with an 11/750 Contact off-list. Thanks!

20 years, 12 months

Happy New Years

by cmurray＠eagle.ca

To all classic/orphan and 'old' computer collectors and enthusiasts wishing you all the very best computing for 2004. Murray-- cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote: > Send cctalk mailing list submissions to > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > cctalk-owner(a)classiccmp.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of cctalk digest..." >

20 years, 12 months

Best wishes for 2004

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 1, 14:29, Rob O'Donnell wrote: > At 00:55 01/01/2004 +0000, you wrote: > > >50 minutes late 'cuz I was responsible for the pyro *and* the > >champagne (the bad weather may have cancelled the party in my home town > >of Edinburgh, but we don't give up in York)... > > > > LOL. We had pleny of 'pyro' here too (Salford) but saw and heard the > fireworks in York (maybe yours) courtesy of "Most Haunted Live" on LivingTV > which was coming from the Race Course. :-) Probably not mine, as I live on the other side of York, and I doubt if they'd be visible through the snow at that time -- but I did manage to get the first peonie burst on the stroke of midnight! -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 12 months

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test-drb January 2004