I picked up an HP 41C calculator at the VCF 7.0 earlier this month. It
has damage from leaking batteries and is beyond my ability to repair
it. Would anyone like to take a try? It has the following modules
installed:
Memory Module
Financial 1
Math 1
Please let me know by private email if you are interested. I'm offering
it for free and I will pay shipping. Heck, it weighs next to nothing
and won't cost much to ship. If you want it, send me email.
David Betz
dbetz(a)xlisper.mv.com
Hi All,
Excitement in the lab last night! - I left the 2113B running on the bench
whilst I went to make a cup of tea (yep, British) only to return to a room
full of smoke.
Turned out that the 240 volt rated 0.22u surpressor capacitor (mounted
across the live and neutral pins on the mains socket) had decided to give up
the ghost. No real damage done - just a bit stinky and a bit of smoke
damage.
The machine had run just fine for about two hours before the cap decided to
break. This has happened to me before on another piece of ageing
electronics - it is probably worth checking all old electronics for this
type of surpressor capacitor and replacing them BEFORE turning the equipment
on.
Hope that this is of help to someone.
Peter Brown
Does anyone in or near Colorado want the following items Sanyo MBC550 and a
Sanyo monitor ? Email me and I will put you in contact with the person that
has them.
Jim Isbell, W5JAI <jim.isbell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> BUT...now she expects to have the system updated every two weeks. She
> used to be satisfied with my cast offs but now she wants the latest!!
You mean she can't use an ASR33? Why not? Teach her how to use one!
MS
Hello all,
OK ... So far all of the responses to part #1 have been "I look
forward to part #2", or "I'll take what's left"... Therefore, I'll
keep it all available, in case someone wants the entire kit. If not,
then I'll sort out what's left and let the vultures get it :-)
Please note that I am NOT willing to ship anything in this list. Too
big, too heavy, too much trouble. Please do not ask me to ship it...
You can pick it up in Westminster, MA 01473.
Here's the deal:
- A case the size/weight of a typical desktop PC, labeled on the front
"VAX 4000-100", and on the back "MicroVAX 3100". Nice and clean,
nothing in the 5.25" external bays, and only one hard drive in the
internal bays, RF31T-EA (Google says 381MB DSSI). Has what looks like
a standard set of ports on the back (I found one similar to this on a
Google search, and it had all the same ports: printer, DSSI, Q-Bus,
SCSI, Ethernet, Console, Printer). NOT powered on, untested, working
pull.
- DEC TS05 Tape drive, with two cables. HEAVY! Untested, working pull
- MTI StingRay DS and StingRay Disk Array. The DS unit looks to be
the controller, and the Disk Array has 7 1GB drives. DS unit weighs
about 40lbs., and the Disk Array is at least double that (about the
size of a FULL 486 PC Tower case). Untested, working pull
- R400X expansion unit. Again, some Googling reveals it is a BA440
cabinet, with 4 drives (DSSI I believe). Also has a M7493-PA card,
and H7874-00 power supply. Untested, working pull
- B400X expansion unit. Another BA440, NO hard drives, but does have
a TK70 tape drive. Has the same H7874-00 power supply. Cards are:
M9060-YA load module, M7530-PA TS05 controller, M9047-00 grant card,
M7559-00 TK70 controller, M9405-PA QBus Expansion card. Untested,
working pull.
I'll take emails for a couple of days OFF-LIST please. I'd like to
get this out of the house (or, rather, my wife would :-) ), so
priority will be given to those who can come sooner rather than
later.....
I'll try to answer any questions, but I am a DEC neophyte...
Thanks,
Rich B.
> This is Meltie's department, though whether he can get the means
> together to get to welshland is another thing entirely. I can't, plus
> I've got nowhere to put it :-\ The 4000 would be nice but I've already
> got a 4505a :)
Thanks for thinking of me, but Snowdon computers (i've seen it already by
a stroke of luck) get them in occasionally and I just can't afford the van
at the moment :(
Give me six months and i'll have given up on Uni and moved to
Cheltenham/Bristol to work with a mate in VMS admin.
Sod Uni... Job! Money! House! 3-Phase!
alex/melt
My inner voice kept urging me to stop by the local used-computer place today despite my currently low cash level. Now I know why.
Besides the SCSI connection adapter I needed, I also picked up a neat piece of computing test equipment history. It's a V-ATE POST and diagnostic test card, made by Vista Microsystems and vintage about 1991.
I remember seeing these things (and lusting after them, but I couldn't afford $2,300+ at the time) in the Specialized Products catalog of the time, right alongside the Lynx floppy-disk tester/exercisers, RS232 breakout boxes, and other such goodies. I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd ever own one.
This particular board will work in any AT-type system with an ISA slot. Besides doing the usual POST code readout and diagnostic functions, it will also function as an AT-bus specific logic analyzer.
God only knows what I'm going to use it for right now, but I just couldn't leave it there to be picked up by some brainless boob who has no idea of the history of the thing, much less how to use it!
<sigh> And I thought I was done collecting computer hardware some years ago. At least I'm not bringing home VAXstations now... ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
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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?"
