Hello Friend
I have one of those old qube boxes. It is complete, but since the Qube system is not available any longer, it does not look. Please let me know if you would be interested in it. I collect goofy things like that.
Chris
Sorry... I see your pictures of your Multispin4Xc cdr-c302 and is like one I got, please: how can I use in Win98 or XP systems?, I can´t get the drivers...
...at first thanks for your help and for if you send me those drivers
alfa2mil2000
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Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it goes into terminal mode
because I don't have a keyboard attached. It has a 20 Gb hard drive and all
four SIMM sockets are filled. It has the biggest, strangest SIMMS that I've
ever seen. They're shaped kind of like a T and the top is longer than the
bottom and are crammed full of ICs. No idea of the amount of memory or CPU
speed since I can't get to the OS. It's a model 380-0111-01. Does anyone
know where I can get the specs for that specific model?
Joe
Hi.
I need a manual set for the SGI Iris 1000. Anyone got some for sale or
trade?
Please contact me directly.
Thanks!
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I picked up a couple today, mostly because they were there. On has
no stylus, and neither has an AC adapter, so I'm not likely to do a
whole lot with them. They don't look beat up, and there's one carry
case.
So, choice one would be to find an AC adapter, and whatever other
accessories, Real Cheap.
Choice two is does anybody need one or both for parts spares?
Choice most likely is they go into the "Cute Things I Have Part Of"
drawer instead of the refiner. :)
Doc
I'm getting close to off-topic, but it (1) is > 10 yrs old and (2)
contains a computer... :-)
Does anyone have any idea what the diskette format is? It's not DSDD 512
byte sectors, eg. dd won't read it on a linux box.
Luckily the analyzer's OS has a disk-dup feature, so I can make copies,
but it would be nice to archive a copy.
(On a related note, if anyone has a PDF of the users manual I'd
appreciate it... I bought this used for the University, I figured out
most of the big chunks but a manual would sure be handy. I have the
Maintenance manual, which tells you how to unpack it and shows all the
various interesting flavors of power cord.)
I was sorting through all the bulk-erased DEC media last night
listing the OS's and software "I coulda had", and found one item I'm
pretty sure hasn't been degaussed - the "LXY11 and LXY21 DIAGS", P/N
YM-Z049D-AA on paper tape. It looks like it's never been run.
Slick. It's a darn shame I don't have a reader.
Doc
On Jan 26, 9:14, dvcorbin(a)optonline.net wrote:
> >Bwahahaha, I've written 10 replies, but canceled them all, because I
can't
> >teach a house
> >plant calculus. You Win.
Yeah, I thought about explaining why the paragraph around the idea that
.5mA kills is drivel, and gave up.
> Seriously the TOTAL lack of regulation on "WallWarts" is quite
common. I am currently (preofessionally) developing a product which
normally operates off of AC power (via a wallwart), but needs to remort
low AC conditions and fall back to battery.
>
> The load on this device is VERY dynamic ranging from under 10mA to
over 850mA depending on what it is doing. The voltage fluctuations out
of the wall wart (which is rated as 11.8V @ 1A) will rise as high as
17V when under a minimal load.
>
> Since the device is intended to have a very low production cost, they
really cut some regulation requirements on the board as well, since the
components WILL tolerate this range of voltages.
>
> Unfortunately, the side effect is that the voltage variation based on
load is significantly greater than the voltage variation based on
fluctuations in the AC (eg during a brown out). This has required the
development of software that is constantly monitoriing the "active"
state of many of the devices to "calculate" the current load, and then
going through a transform to estimate the RAW AC that is providing
power to the wart.
Well, there might be a way to deal with the problem. Most of the poor
regulation is down to the following. Most small DC wall warts consist
of a transformer feeding a bridge rectifier with a moderate
electrolytic capacitor across it. Under low or zero load, the
capacitor charges to the peak voltage. As you apply more and more
load, you get more and more ripple, and the average voltage goes down
(in fact, because there is resistance between the transformer and
capacitor, so does the peak). However, you could analyse the ripple
and work out what the input was doing. At moderate loads, the
capacitor will charge rapidly to something near the peak voltage on
each half-cycle, and discharge relatively slowly; at high loads, you'll
get a more symmetric ripple. If you want to know in detail, you could
sample it, but my guess is if you're just looking for brownouts all
you'd need to do is compare the amount of ripple to the average voltage
and apply some rule of thumb. Or compare the slope of the rise to the
slope of the fall. Of course when the ripple goes away completely
you've got no mains input at all :-)
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University of York
Curt vendel <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> wrote:
> Ah! Sorry, I didn't get into Dec Vax stuff until 94' and didn't start
> working with Ultrix till 95'
I started my VAX life at an even later date! 1997. So yes, I am a late comer
to the club. I saw a VAX for the first time in my life in 1997. But I wanted
to run 4.3BSD and I was determined to do whatever it takes to do it. So I
learned the VAX terminology and genealogy, learned how to make my way around
the VAX world, and learned that original 4.3BSD ran only on VAXen so huge and
so rare (an 11/7xx wasn't exactly a readily obtainable item even in 1997, much
less today) that I would never be able to run one. I learned that to make
4.3BSD run on a VAX of the kind I could lay my hands on and run in an apartment
I would have to actually do major work on the code first. Now imagine me back
then in 1997-98 thinking about the prospect of making major changes to a VAX
UNIX kernel while having virtually no knowledge of VAX architecture and system
programming. But I was determined. A good ClassicCmp friend provided me with
literature (VAX Architecture Reference Manual, VAX Architecture Handbook, and
VAX Hardware Handbook), and I learned the VAX architecture and instruction set.
I read and studied everything I could about VAXen. And it has paid off: I know
VAX really well now, people consult with me on deep VAX hardware questions, I
successfully maintain a VAX operating system, and I'm even working in the
background (though not too many cycles dedicated to it right now) on the design
of a new VAX CPU chip.
> I remember we got into the lab I think it
> was a Dec Infoserver, their first webserver and it was running Ultrix as I
> recall, [...]
> Actually, I think the infoserver was running OSF Unix???
Maybe we are talking about different things, but InfoServer runs a special
proprietary embedded OS and it is not a web server, it talks a special
proprietary protocol. Unless I'm totally mistaken on that one. (InfoServer
was a fairly unusual beast.)
MS
