Just got a call from a PDP-11/05 customer in Cleveland OH. They are in a
crisis situation due to a dead 11/05. They suspect memory problems but
there may be power supply issues as well.
If there is anyone local to them with 11/05 parts and or expertise, can
you please call me right away?
Best number to reach me right now is 314-494-7338
This company is willing to pay for help as the 11/05 being down takes
their milling machine down.
Jay West
>As near as I can tell it came with Virtual PC 7 and WinXP Pro SP2,
>and that is it.
>
>I don't think my old copy of VPC3 (where I got the Win98SE from) had
>anything for DOS either.
<http://www.techadvice.com/tech/M/MSCDEX.htm>
<http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/floppies.htm#generic>
Those two links should get you going. I've found the Oak CDROM driver
works with most IDE cd drives. I don't think it will work with SCSI
drives, so if your Mac CD drive is SCSI, it may fail to see it.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I was planning to rescue the above this coming weekend. However personal
circumstances will be delaying (any possibly preventing) me doing this.
Anyone interested, please contact me off list.....
David
631-244-8487
<happy dance>
we're getting a drum store!
</happy dance>
Just been offered a late 1960's BCL Susie accounting machine - delay
line accumulator and all the usual suspects (card reader, tape reader /
writer etc.). Best thing being that it has a 64 track drum - as you know
I've been after a machine with a drum for the museum for some time now.
Sounds like it's been in a shed for the last ten years though so the
owner's checking what kind of state it's in. Experience is that machines
of that era survive moisture remarkably well though, so fingers
crossed.
Moving it's going to be interesting. :-)
cheers
Jules
--
"We've had a lot of loonies around this place, but you're the first one
who thought the sunrise was made out of stale beer. Now are you going to
pick up your flute and leave, or shall I part your hair with this
crowbar?"
I've used a copy of Ontrack Disk Manager (~version 4?) from Seagate and it
works with any brand drive. If you still need it, I can dig it out when
I'm home in a couple of weeks and image it. I believe it will work with
any settings in the BIOS, although it does recommend certain ones.
T.H.x.
Devon
--------Original Message---------
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:52:29 +0200
From: Gooijen H <GOOI(a)oce.nl>
Subject: RE: access to BIOS of DECpc
I found the SET320P.EXE program on the COMPAQ site, and it allows
several items 'normally' found in a BIOS to be manipulated. Alas,
there is no field to change the hard drive parameters nor the type!
The disk manager was a good idea, I have one old 486 PC with a big
Western Digital drive, too big to be supported by the BIOS, and the
EZ-DRIVE disk manager works perfectly here.
However, EZ-DRIVE only accepts to work with Western Digital drives,
and the 2.5" hard disk that I have is from HP. The disk manager
also wants certain settings for the hard disk in the BIOS ...
Still not giving up / one more try: could somebody point me to a
site that has a non-commercial disk manager (for HP or not restricted
to specific HDDs) or even better e-mail a ZIP with such disk manager?
TIA,
- Henk, PA8PDP.
Of possible interest to UCSD Pascal fans...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>From Kelly Briggs (kbriggs(a)soe.ucsd.edu)
Subject: UCSD Pascal Reunion Symposium 10/22
Dozens of alumni will gather at UCSD on Friday, Oct. 22, to mark the 30th
anniversary of the computer language UCSD Pascal, one of the first
languages of the personal-computer era. The UCSD Pascal Reunion Symposium
will take place from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Price Center Ballroom, and
will be open to the public, free of charge. (To register, go to
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/Pascal/registration.sfe.)
The UCSD Pascal symposium is organized by UCSD?s Jacobs School of
Engineering and its Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, and
is co-sponsored by the California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology. The event will feature talks by several former
researchers on the project, including UCSD Pascal?s founding father,
professor emeritus Kenneth Bowles, who will speculate on "Pascal: What If?".
Other speakers include Richard Kaufmann, class of ?78, now a distinguished
technologist at Hewlett-Packard, who will reminisce on "What the Heck Was
UCSD Pascal?;" Roger Sumner, ?77, president of Beach Software Designs, who
will discuss Pascal?s far-reaching impact; and CSE professor Henrik Wann
Jensen, on ?Digital Illumination.?
Following those presentations, CSE professor Stefan Savage will moderate a
roundtable discussion among Kaufmann, Sumner and four other members of
Bowles? early research team: Mark Overgaard, '78, President, Pigeon Point
Systems; John Van Zandt, '76 '79 '86, President, CEO Consultancy, Inc.;
Keith Shillington, '78, Co-Owner, E Street Caf?, Encinitas, California; and
Lucia Yandell, '78 '80, JSF SW Process Lead, Northrop Grumman, ST Radio
Systems.
UCSD Pascal became both a programming language and an operating system for
some of the earliest personal computers. Its development not only put
computer science at UCSD on the map in a big way, but its innovations also
had a major impact on developers of other languages and operating systems at
Apple, Microsoft, and elsewhere.
Pascal was originally created by Swiss scientist Niklaus Wirth in 1969 for
use on mainframe computers. But starting in 1974, Bowles ? who at the time
directed UCSD?s computing center ? began to adapt Pascal for use on
so-called "microcomputers," precursors of today?s PCs. At one point or
another, more than 70 students were involved in the UCSD Pascal project, and
by 1983, UCSD Pascal had become an ISO standard language. The University of
California then sold the technology to SofTech Systems, which tried but
failed to convince IBM to adopt UCSD Pascal as the core operating system of
its first personal computers. (Microsoft's MS-DOS won the IBM contract.)
For a history of the UCSD Pascal program, including recollections from many
of the speakers who will attend the symposium, read ?UCSD Pascal and the PC
Revolution,? by Christine Foster, in the September 2004 issue of @UCSD. It
is available online at
http://www.alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol1no3/features/pascal.htm . For the
complete program, go to
http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/Pascal/ .
We hope to see you there!
------- End of forwarded message -------
I ran across your email inquiry regarding Otrona Advanced Systems. I
worked there in quality assurance from 1982 until its untimely demise in
the fall (I believe October) of 1984. The company did not pursue Chapter
11, instead heading immediately into a liquidation. Kodak was a prominent
investor.
Let me know if you'd like any additional information.
Brian R. Balow
Dickinson Wright PLLC
38525 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
248 433-7536
248 433-7274 (fax)
248 943-6953 (cell)
>> As for the 40-pin chip, unless it's something like a 6500/1 (a micro-
>> controller-like relative of the 6502, as found in the 1520 plotter),
>
>Unless there's some EPROM/ROM in there, it's unlikely to be a
>microprocessor. It might even be a gate array.
There is no ROM that I could see... Also, this chip is completely
unmarked - flat plack plastic DIP with no lettering.
>> > Other apparent power sources from the connector head off into a maze
>> > of op-amps and other analog circuitry, even with schematics it would
>> > take a bit of work to figure out what supplies it was designed for...
>>
>> Hmm... that makes it hard.
>
>Hard, but not impossible. It should be possible to trace the 5 pins of
>that DIN socket. I'll bet one of them is ground (which you must be able
>to find). You mention a regulator. Where does the output of that go
>(+5V line to the lgoic). And does the input come from a pin on the DIN
>socket (that should give you a good guess as to what goes in there). Now
>look at the power pins to the op-amps. Maybe they go straing to the DIN
>socket (in which case I'll go for +/-12V there). Maybe more regulators
>(if so, do the inputs come from the DIN sockets). And so on. I suspect it
>would be possible to come up with a supply that works.
Agreed that it's possible, and when I get the time I will go through it,
I was just explaining why it would be nice to have someone measure the
power supply pins so that I would have a starting place. I can basically
identify all of the pins on the power socket - but I heasitate to
assume +/-12 for the analog - It would be nice to at least have a no-load
measurement... If I can't find any information, it may come down to
doing what you suggest.
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
it looks more like a silver topped potty...
you must have to "dump" the tape in...
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Kelleher <Pres(a)macro-inc.com>
Sent: Oct 21, 2004 7:17 AM
To: cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: "Compact" tape drive?
And for the grand prize -- name the style of this tape drive!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5132851939&ssPageNa…
My guess is, "Compact".
:-)
Ed K.
>That's unfortunate but not surprising... it's not a common thing. If
>I had one, I'm not even sure I could find a use for it.
I have to admit - I do not have a burning desire to connect to anything
at 300 bps --- But I do have a burning desire to see it work.
These are a questions that seems to have different answers from different
collectors:
- To use or not to use
- To fix or not to fix
- To power-up or not to power-up
I spend plenty of hours fixing things that I know I'll never really
use --- I like to know that the items in my collection actually work,
and will continue to work as long as I can maintain them. I guess my
idea of preserving this material means preserving it in working
condition. I also LIKE fixing this stuff... I like the challenge of
tracing a problem, and the insight that comes from figuring out how
a particular design works.
I know collectors who rake all the stuff up into a big pile and never
even try it - just "having" is enough.
I know collectors who check that it works, and then never turn it on
again, because "it might stop working".
I know collectors who focus on a very small area, and actually use the
equipment on a daily basis.
Personally, I cycle through the things in my collection frequently - I
try and run everything at least once or twice a year (usually several
times a year). I enjoy fooling with the different machines. I also
demonstrate them working at every opportunity - I've taken vintage machines
to local schools to let kids experience some of "how we got here", I
take them out to local clubs and meets, and I show them to anyone who
wants to drop by and see them. I often loan them out, although I do want
to satisfy myself that they will be reasonably well taken care of first.
Whats the point of storing all this stuff unless people can actually
experience it - otherwise, why not just keep a pile of pictures.
If a machine breaks - I fix it. IMHO, a machine that you can't use because
"it might break" is no more useful than a machine that doesn't work in the
first place.
So - most anything that comes in here I try and get working.
In this case, I think it would be "cool" to be able to demonstrate a PET
connected through the 8010 IEEE modem to my Hayes S-100 modem (also a 103 type)
in an Altair running a BBS system - This would show how it really worked!
- but I don't expect anyone to actually want to use such a setup for any
other purpose.
Curious to know what others do with the vintage equipment you have stashed
away in basement/garage etc.
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