Hi, gang,
For those working with Qbus or Unibus DEC systems: I've just posted a Vector dual-height prototyping board for auction on E-pay. If you're interested, a search for item #5133752396 should reveal it.
Thanks much.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
I just got some HP calculators!
Now I have some questions :^)
--Anyone have a spare manual for either?
--Have pointers on replacing the battery pack on the 55?
(it seems to be 3 AAA nicads)
--Anyone have any pointers on cleaning up leaked nicad crystals?
what is that stuff anyway?
I do have cases and power suplies.
-- I took apart the 25's battery pack and replaced the nicads with
nickel metal hydride cells (the same ones I use in my camera)
-- Is is ok to run the 55 on wall power supply without a battery
pack installed?
Will trade the 55+case+powersupply+leakybatteries(in a ziplock bag)
for complete set of docs for the 25 + 1 good application book,
preferably games :^)
Well, I finally have a true DEC bit of hardware in the form of a old DEC
Multia VX40. (166Mhz Alpha, 64MB RAM, 3.5" floppy, 1GB SCSI)
(Its almost properly on-topic from the dates I could find.)
I've cleaned out the dust/cigarette smoke, and bought myself a little
SCSI1->SCSI2 adapter so I can get the SCSI external. (As well as
another 32Mb of memory while I was at it. - it was cheap - and there
were empty SIMM slots)
The original 1GB IBM SCSI drive appears to have been the victim of true
sticktation. The drive started spinning after I whapped it a few times,
so I don't trust it.
I've got an 18G (Sun) external disk, and CD-ROM I can plug into it, and
the intention is to install OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-1 on the thing.
Anyone have an non-obvious words of wisdom before I start installing VMS
onto it?
(I gather getting VMS on a Multia isn't officially supported, and a bit
of a trick. )
Thanks,
David
On Oct 24 2004, 11:22, John Foust wrote:
>
> I recently inherited a stack of Fibre Channel gizmos made by Compaq:
> three x12 hubs, a tape controller, and a Storageworks modular
> data router.
>
> eBay prices are all over the map: some sellers trying to
> unload them for $1000+, but the real auctions are going for
> less than $50 for each box. Each slot in the hub needs an
> optical transceiver; these seem to sell for $10 each.
> Cables? Many offered, few bidders. FC hard drives? $20 each.
>
> This stuff cost a fortune not so long ago. Why is it
> rock-bottom now? Will it ever be attractive to hobbyists?
Because serious users have upgraded and the cast-offs aren't very
popular, I suspect. To users who think SCSI is odd, FC probably seems
wierd for words (look at the interface on the back of those drives).
They also tend to be small and relatively power hungry, compared to
cheap ATA drives, and how many cheap FC-AL PCI cards have you seen for
a PC?
I've got some FC-AL RAID stuff, but it's on an Origin 2000, and anyway
it's all 9GB drives. Hardly something buyers would fight over.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I just dug up a huge 9448 cartridge module drive from magnetic peripherals
here.
Anybody interested in this beast ? Takes about 2 persons to carry it.
I have no idea what the status is of this machine. The only thing I can say
is that when turned on no smoke comes out and no fault lights come on. I
just makes a nice humming sound ;-)
Cheers,
Stefan.
Probably a well-known fact for anyone with a TA Alphatronic PC, but I
didn't know this...
Seems that a company called Matmos bought up a large number of machines
>from a 'major European office equipment manufacturer', rebadged them,
and sold them on (no idea of date unfortunately).
The machine in the picture on the flyer I have is definitely a TA
Alphatronic PC though. The 'nice' thing is that all the systems were
shipped expanded with CP/M and twin 5.25" inch drives.
Just passing this info on because as I recall most Alphatronic PCs
shipped by TA were without the drives and necessary expansion unit (I've
got three of the darn things used as dumb terminals), so if anyone wants
to make a slightly more useful system, keep an eye out for a Matmos
PC :-)
cheers
Jules
While we're on the topic of 1/2" tape drives, anyone want an HP 7980A (HPIB
interface, not SCSI) that can either pick it up in the Seattle area or want
it enough to pay shipping?
