I always wanted to do this, but now it is too late!
Looks like a nice calendar featuring home computers
>from the 70's and 80's (No PDPs) - $12.99.
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Hey guys...
I have a line on a Convex machine. The current owner is a guy
who attends Govt. auctions and buys bulk, then scraps out stuff for
gold/parts/etc... He calls me when he finds anything interesting, so...
He says this is a Convex SPP3. (it's _heavy_... around 400 Lbs.) I
haven't seen it yet, so I don't know anything more right now.
Unfortunately,
I have no knowledge of Convex stuff, and a web search turned up some
Convex SPP stuff, but not much, and _nothing_ on an "SPP3". Can anyone
enlighten me further? (Yep, I know it's an SMP architecture of some sort,
but
little more than that).
A couple of questions...
Is this machine historically significant? (I.e. worth saving?)
Does anyone know of a source for documentation? (I've done a prelim.
web/newsgroup
search, but haven't turned anything up)
Does anyone have (or know where I can find) a copy of an OS for it
(apparently
it's a unix variant. He told me that the disks were missing... not unusual
for an auction item)
400 lbs is a bit large for me, but if there is a remote chance I can bring
this
critter back to life (and it's worth saving) it's probably worth the effort.
I'll going to
try to take a look at it and try to get some sort of model#/ident. Anything
I should
be looking out for or wary of?
-al-
-acorda(a)1bigred.com
>from Fred van Kempen
Al,
Can you ask the list, or anyone, if anyone has an old Seagate ST01
and/or ST02 controller available? I cant post to the list from
my biz address..
--
I think these were PC scsi cards.
Well Hurricane Jeanne has come and gone. This is the fourth hurricane in
6 weeks and the third that's gone through my area. The DEC and intel stuff
sitting outside STILL hasn't blown away! Not too much damage this time, for
the most part everything that could be torn up was destroyed in the
previous storms. However my roof shingles are finally starting to go. The
power companies are getting GOOD at this. This time they had the power back
on the same day! I think there's going to be lots of houses (or vacant
lots!) for sale in Florida real soon. I went to Home Depot this morning
and it was packed with people buying roofing materials and other repair
items. A lot of them also had "Home for Sale" signs in their carts!
I haven't heard from Glen. I know he was without power for five then
seven days from the two previous storms and I think he's about ready to
leave the state.
Joe
Has anyone played with the LVD SCSI to IDE bridges that Acard is selling
now? I'm trying to figure out if they'll sync down to the speed of the SCSI
bus that they're plugged into. I'm thinking about getting a SCSI-to-IDE
bridge for my VMS system which currently uses UW-SCSI. If it will work, I'd
just as soon buy a LVD bridge, as they're cheaper and will be better when I
finally upgrade my VMS system.
I'm tending to suspect they don't sync down, as they sell U-SCSI, UW-SCSI
and U160 LVD SCSI models.
Zane
anyone have the DOS version of Empire, Nethack (an older version that
does not need dpmi),
I had a DOS version of tetris too (using regular characters in 40 char
mode) so I am looking
for that too.
Any websites that provide old DOS programs for download?
Thanks!
On Nov 29 2004, 0:18, Tony Duell wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > Sounds like mine. The one I have is a replacement, but almost
> > identical to the one my Dad bought in the mid-60s. It's about
115mm
> > wide x 55mm thick x 200mm long; it has three DIN sockets on the
>
> > panel. It takes five C-size cells. It originally came with a
slightly
>
> Yes. You could also feed in 7.5V through one of the sockets -- it was
a
> '240 degree' DIN socket used for external power, remote control, and
> monitoring earphone. One thing I must do is make a little adapter
with a
> power connector and a remote control socket wired to a suitable plug.
That's the one. I use that for power and remote from the Beeb.
> Ah, I was wondering if it would work with a Beeb... Mine alsoe needs
new
> drive belts, but otherwise is still operational. I have the schematic
> from the appropriate year of 'Radio and Television Servicing',
although
> sometimes oen was folded up inside the machine anyway.
I had to replace the drive belt in mine a few years back. I got a belt
>from CPC for a few pence.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I'm trying to do the same thing with some (downloaded) Teledisk images for an Altos 580 server which has a similar 96tpi floppy with no luck (a plea for help here).
My limited understanding is that these drives use double density media and that a standard 1.2 mb drives don't work too well with that (the manuals all say that writing out 360k AKA 40 track disks on a 1.2mb is a bad thing). Did you take the drive in the SB180 and put it in the Compaq, still calling it a 1.2, 360k or even a 720k 3.5? I tried that with a different (SA-465) 96tpi drive jumpered as drive 1 and it seemed to write disks with no reported problems on the Teledisk write. The Altos still didn't like the disk though but that might be a function of the original files (or something else I forgot to do).
Gary F.
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:48:18 -0500
From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini(a)optonline.net>
Subject: RE: Making CP/M disk images
To: "'Dwight K. Elvey'" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com>, "'General Discussion:
On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
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Dwight:
Interestingly, Teledisk did skip every other track. These are DSDD disks
formatted on the SB180 machine using the "40 track" option. The drive in the
SB180 is a 96TPI drive (HD) and the disk on the PC side is a standard 1.2mb.
I'll have to see if Teledisk has any options that may address this. As I
recall, the number of configurable options was sparse, though.
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Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote:
> You can boot bsd43 in 2mb of ram on a 730.
Thanks for checking this, it's good to hear that this is still the case
with current 4.3BSD-Quasijarus.
MS
