test-drb October 2004

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by tponsford＠theriver.com

Some more good auction finds: Well, the IBM s/390 in good working condition (it was a generation 3, not 4) went for $125.00. The whole row of IBM stuff went for around $800. I thought the s/390 cabinet might be useful as a walk-in closet though :-) I consoled myself with a LS ADM3A beehive terminal with the lower-case rom (works great, no burn-in, excellent condition ) for $5.00 and a couple more alpha's..spent arount $15.00 Yesterday, I picked up another alphaserver 2100, mainly for parts, although it works pefectly, it only has 1 275mhz proc and 1 128MB ram board, a coupla fddi controllers and 4-5 disks; 26z,28z,29z. and a single power supply I got three of these beasts now..I'm sorry, it's a bad habit. A big pallet of miscellaneous stuff for around $7.50 that include quite a few dec cables, a decserver 90M, two cartons of new Exatape 170m AME 8mm tapes, (unfortunatley I only have a sun EL820 7/14GB tape drive) whole bunch of office stuff and a couple more dec fddi cards and cables and a 56k pci modem, along with a huge amount of 4-pin <--> rj45 serial cables. The real find though was an complete, (monitor,keyboard,cable) apparently non-working, Digital Professional 350. On inspection, it has a 000042 CTI-bus card, which is a CTI DECNA ethernet card...woohoo. Spent around 30 dollars for everything. Cheers Tom -- --- Please do not read this sig. If you have read this far, please unread back to the beginning.

20 years, 1 month

new find: an Intel MDS 800

by melamy＠earthlink.net

the 8085/32K thing could be a memory issue (mine...). I have three different cpu cards and will take a "better" look at them tonight. I probably got my processors crossed... -----Original Message----- From: Dave Mabry <dmabry(a)mich.com> Steve, I never heard of an 8085-based cpu card for the Series II with only 32K of ram. Are you sure about that version? I'd bet that was not an option. I have several of both 8080- and 8085-based cpu cards.

20 years, 1 month

anyone have INS8154 ICs?

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Don't suppose anyone has a couple of INS8154 chips lying around in their junk box do they? I've been talking to a chap trying to restore a pair of Acorn System 1's, both of which are missing the INS8154 chips... Didn't occur to me at the time to ask here just in case :-) cheers Jules

20 years, 1 month

VUPS measuring utility

by pat＠computer-refuge.org

I seem to remeber there being a VUPS-measuring DCL script which I was able to find a few years ago, which was probably mentioned on this list. Does anyone have a copy they could send me, or point me to where I could find it? My attempts at using google and looking through past email have been fruitless so far. Thanks much, Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org

20 years, 1 month

YAAYD (Yet another "Ten (0A) year" discussion) (was: GOPHER

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com> wrote: > Maybe it should be based of if a person in their right > mind might actually use that machine for day to day business, > it should be excluded. Some people do use Classic computers for day to day business! I use my VAXen running 4.3BSD-Quasijarus for that. So I guess you would want to exclude me. Fine, feel free to ignore my posts. Fortunately there are others on this list I can ask if I have a technical question about some DEC or other quite on-topic stuff. > Of course this might very from person > to person. Anyone silly enough to use an old Altair for day > to day work shouldn't post questions to the list. OK, feel free to consider me too silly/stupid/crazy/whatever, you are entitled to your opinion. Unfortunately for you, you won't stop me >from posting on-topic technical questions to the list from my very on-topic VAX hosts. MS

20 years, 1 month

YAAYD (Yet another "Ten (0A) year" discussion) (was: GOPHER

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk > >> If we are going to re-adjust the number of years to include/exclude, >> then let's just scrap the entire concept of a fixed number of years, >> and declare that classic computers ran until August 10, 1981 (the >> day before the IBM PC announcement). > >And thus exclude some true classics, like the HP Integral and PERQ 2T4 > >Much as I hate to exclude a particalar type of machine, maybe we should >just say that a machine is not classic if a substantially similar machine >is still mainstream, and thus has support available elsewhere. That >would, I think, cut out most Pentium-based machines (but would arguably >still include PC/XTs, etc). > >-tony > Hi Maybe it should be based of if a person in their right mind might actually use that machine for day to day business, it should be excluded. Of course this might very from person to person. Anyone silly enough to use an old Altair for day to day work shouldn't post questions to the list. Simple. Dwight

20 years, 1 month

CDP 1861 Video Processor

by JMeyer101＠aol.com

I am trying to get a RCA Cosmac VIP up and running, but I have two problems. I'm not familiar with the connector that this computer uses for the display and don't know how to connect it to a monitor (or whatever type of display it uses). The second problem is I need to find the 1861 chip. Does anyone know of a source where I can get one of these chips? My last issue/question is verifying what type of computer I really have. The box the computer came in is for a 18S711, but then there is a hand written note saying it's actually a 18S022. How can I verify that it is indeed a 18S022? Thanks, Jeff

20 years, 1 month

rack-mount Norsk Data ND100 available

by toresbe＠ifi.uio.no

Don't throw it away! :) Don't let that thing hit the dumpster! :) The ND-100 was a brilliant machine, and had an OS far from its time. I'm actually going to see one *today* and I'll get to bring some docs home, and I'll probably get a site up that will fix the scarcity of info on this machine. It has coolness, blinkenlights, and all the bells and whistles. Please, don't let that thing die! :\ Someone pick it up, I'll probably bring software to the table soon. -- Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>

20 years, 1 month

TRS-80 model II keyboard(s)

by dave04a＠dunfield.com

At 18:57 26/10/2004 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >I have a couple TRS-80 model II keyboards, as seen at >http://oldcomputers.net/trs80ii.html > >They work, but are not in new condition (they have >wear marks and dirt). > >Does anyone have a use for one? They are not for >re-sale! > >Steve. Hi Steve, I know another local collector here in Ottawa canada that has a TRS-80 model II and does not have a keyboard - obviously a keyboard in any condition would be highly desirable. What are your terms for obtaining one? Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Vintage computing equipment collector. http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html

20 years, 1 month

wirewrap tool

by lists＠microvax.org

Does anyone in the UK know of somewhere that rents out wirewrap tools... or has one I could borrow for a week or so? cheers guys alex/melt

20 years, 1 month

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test-drb October 2004