On Nov 26 2004, 22:25, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >One of these days I will have to check out an old SGI to see what
the fuss
> >was about.
>
> I have two o2's, one of them is a lowly R5000 180Mhz system (the more
> pathetic of the two 180Mhz models) with 160MB RAM. This system can
> handle *HEAVY* loads more gracefully than any other system I've use,
> and X-Windows is unbelievably smooth, even under these heavy loads.
> The other is an R12000 270Mhz system, and even better :^)
I have three Indigos (left out of six), of which one is an R4K with the
full Elan graphics, and one has the "Song and Dance Machine" graphics
board; six Indys ranging from an early 100MHz R4000PC to a 150MHz
R5KSC; two O2s, one of which is a 180MHz R5K, the other being an R10K
with the audio/video unit; and a 16-processor x 180MHz R10K Origin2000.
The O2K is currently split into two units, one at home (with all the
extra bits'n'bobs) and one on loan to a research unit at the
University. It has no graphics of its own, but even running X over the
network, it's nice :-)
I've been using SGIs since 1994, and my R5K Indy is the one I
originally bought secondhand in 1995 for UKP2200. Then, it was a
133MHz R4600SC with 64MB RAM, a 1GB disk and 8-bit graphics. It's been
upgraded a few times and now has 24-bit graphics (see my friend's page
at http://www.jfc.org.uk/documents/indy_gfx.html and you'll understand
why two of my Indys have crippled graphics cards), 256MB RAM, a lot
more disk space, and a few extras. It still runs 24/7, acts as my main
desktop machine, and provides NFS and Samba file services, print
services, SMTP, IMAP and SpamAssassin, and a few minor things, for the
rest of the machines on my home net. It could do with being a bit
faster, but it's doing very well for a ten-year-old machine.
> What I really want one of these days is a nice Dual Processor Octane
> with R12000 CPU's.
Have you heard one? Have you got a pair of comfortable ear defenders?
Have you seen the articles on futuretech about modifying an R5K2 O2
for a (much) faster processor?
> What I'd really like is a nice new Quad Processor
> R16000A-based Tezro, but there is no way I can afford a brand new SGI
> Workstation.
Me neither, unfortunately :-( And work have stopped buying/suuporting
SGI :-(
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Anyone happen to know what error code 65 means on the display of a TU80?
According to the technical docs we have, it doesn't exist - they list as
far as 61, then skip to 70 - grrr!
cheers
Jules
Hello all,
I am looking for the following old PDP-11 unibus modules:
* M7237 - Stack limit register for PDP-11/35 and 11/40
* M7891 - MOS memory modules, preferably 64K or 128K
I have some items that I would be willing to trade.
Among these are some 16 sector RK05 packs and some
11/34 CPU boards and other odds and ends.
Thanks,
Ashley
Hello all,
I recently picked up a couple of Intel 8085-based Multibus processor
boards. These are branded Intel and are marked 8024A. They are NOT
the 80/24 board, which I have been able to find info for.
Judging from datecodes, they are aprox. 1990 in age. They have a
Microdesigins, Inc. mezzanine card plugged into them called uDS-221
Multifunction Multimodule which adds serial I/O, battery backed SRAM,
and a real time clock function.
I am looking for info to get these boards up and running. Seem like
nice Intel processor cards.
Here are some pix of the cards (taken and uploaded halfway through
composing this message):
The 8024a board alone:
http://sasteven.multics.org/8024a.jpg
The board with RTC mezzanine card plugged in:
http://sasteven.multics.org/8024a_both.jpg
The RTC mezzanine card alone:
http://sasteven.multics.org/8024a_RTC.jpg
Any info would be greatly appreciated. These three photos are hereby
granted to the public domain. (use them as you wish)
Scott
Hello, all:
I was browsing eBay and I came across this listing in my "S100"
search:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5142045885&
rd=1
A few months back, I bought a CD from Dynacomp Software because it
had a bunch of Altair manuals on it that I didn't have. This is, of course,
before I found Bitsavers and Harte Technologies, which has all that I could
want on the documentation side.
Anyway, when this guy was selling only Volume 1 and 2, he was also
selling the original manuals, so I thought that this guy was OK. As time
went on, he began to sell other compilation CDs but not the manuals, so I
concluded that he began clipping files from all over the Web and selling
them on CDs. A little unsavory, but, well, what can one do?
Tonight, I looked at Volume 5 and in the CD table of contents (link
above), I see "altair32 Project Altair Emulator.zip" and two other related
listings. As you all know, this is my baby and this person never had the
courtesy to ask my permission to distribute my albeit free software.
Am I crazy here? Should I contact this guy and ask him to remove it?
Should I ask him to place a link to the project page instead? How about
modifying the listing to include a "permission granted" message?
Any thoughts on this?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Bob, I could use these to fill in a few that are missing from
the archive. Spec, 753 759 and 761
If you have a prom programmer, I'd like to get the images of these from you.
>What problems are there with the "international postal money order"?
>Can't you still get those at the local USPS office?
>
The only International money orders the US Post office will cash are their
own and Canadian post. I know because I took a Japanese Postal International
Money order once and the US Post wouldn't have anything to do with it. It was
legitimate but I ended up having to deposit it to cash it. I do take Canadian
Postal Money Orders now.
I have used the interbank for international money transfer once and it worked
easily. I seem to remember that I had my credit union generate a transaction
number along with the interbank number that I sent to the person purchasing
the item. A couple of days later the money showed up in my Credit Union Account.
However it cost me $10 for the transaction on my side, which I had the
customer pay, after all he wanted to pay by wire transfer.
Nowadays I take Western Union Wire transfers, Western Union International
Money Orders, Bidpay, Paypal or US dollars (Cash) for international purchases.
I do not take Certified or Bank Checks, especially for amounts greater than
the purchase. And I do not ship until I am certain I have payment.
Lately, in posting a HP110 outfit on the HP Museum's for sale site I received
three fraudulent offers, and one serious one. Two of the offers were to
purchase it with a certified check for a set amount, much more than the item and
then have me forward the HP110 and the extra money on to them. The third
fraudulent offer was a blatant offer to let me pad the invoice with other goods, name
my own price, and get paid by a certified check.
I was very disappointed to see that amount of scamming on the bulletin board.
All were internationally based scams and easy to recognize, though.
Paxton
Astoria, Oregon
USA
On Nov 26 2004, 17:53, meltie lists wrote:
>
> I just went to my bank (HSBC) in the UK to pay about 39 euros to an
IBAN
> in Germany. Bank fees were 9 pounds sterling! OUCH!!
Ouch! That's a *lot*. Last time I paid using IBAN it cost a fraction
of that (but it was using the University's account; maybe they have
different terms). My experience in sending money to the States, for
what it's worth, is that bank transfers are most expensive, Western
Union wire transfers are slightly better, BidPay is much cheaper (well,
less expensive), credit cards (if the seller accepts them directly) are
pretty good, PayPal is cheapest, and sending cash is pretty cheap but
I'm wary of sending cash by mail, especially airmail.
I have accounts with more than one bank, for historical reasons, and
one of them offered to create me a Euro account when I complained that
their "inexpensive" charges for sending money to Europe were umpteen
times what a Eurocheque would have cost. It turned out that made
individual transfers cheap but the account maintenance charges more
than made up for that unless I had quite a high balance.
It seems that the UK is just not the place to be if you want to buy
stuff from abroad :-(
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
