test-drb November 2004

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by RMeenaks＠OLF.COM

John, Do you have any software, etc. Would love to archive this on my website and future reference...... Thanks, Ram -----Original Message----- From: John Honniball [mailto:coredump@gifford.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 6:10 PM To: julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk; On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Surviving UK Transputer systems... Jules Richardson wrote: > Does anyone know of any complete Transputer systems (i.e. several > processors, cabinet, front-end control system etc.) from the '90's > that still survive within the UK? I have a bunch of INMOS and transputer kit that I need to find a new home for. In fact, tomorrow I'm meeting the curator of the Bristol Industrial Museum, to see what he'd like. Would BP have room for some of this stuff? I've asked before, but always been told that they weren't accepting any more computers. -- John Honniball coredump(a)gifford.co.uk (c) 2004 OpenLink Financial Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It is confidential and may be legally privileged. If this message is not intended for you it must not be read, copied or used by you or disclosed to anyone else. Please advise the sender immediately if you have received this message in error. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Open Link Financial, Inc. for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.

20 years, 1 month

OT: exchange of DNS secondary service?

by tomj＠wps.com

I do realize this is largely off-topic (though it's on my net machine that supports vintage computing activities), but I cannot think of a better bunch of people to ask. Please reply off-list. I have a long-lived, well-placed and reliable machine on the net, turing.wps.com, and I'm looking to exchange secondary DNS service with someone outside the U.S. or on the East Coast. My server is in a secure, A/B powered telecomm colo in Seattle Washington, 600+ Mb/s to three ASNs. I have a lot of heavy DNS experience so when I foul up I do a really good job of it. I've got a half-dozen zones, all small, and would set up axfr's for you in exchange for me. This of course does not require me to have access to your machines, and vice-versa, we just set up bind config. Swap for like service, no money involved.

20 years, 1 month

New finds: Some days you win, other days you WIN!

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I got a call yesterday from one of my steady sources. He finally got in the load of Intel Multibus manuals that I'd been waiting for. Went down there this morning and spend about 4 hours digging thru a pallet load of manuals. Found about 50 Multibus manuals. But only three different manuals. Yeah. About 15 copies of each one! While I was there, they were sorting out another load of OLD stuff that they'd just gotten. There was a lot of '40s, 50s and '60s electronics in it as well as a lot of typrewriters, checkwriters and mechanical adders. while I was there I went over and looked in the scrap basket where they were tossing out stuff and in the bottom I spotted something that said "Flexowriter". I really didn't want to have to pull out all the junk that had been thrown in on top of it but decided to find out more first. A quick call to Alex Knight (aren't cell phones great?) and he confirmed that I SHOULD dig it out. So into the basket I went. An hour later and I was the proud owner of not one but TWO Frieden Flexowriters! Anyone have a manual or more information about these? Also found some OLD modules that are marked Digital Logic Modules. They're made of black plastic and about 1 1/8 square and 1/4" thick and have ten pins on the bottom. The pins aren't round but are blade shaped like those used on Jones plugs. There's no name on them but they have a symbol of a capital R with the electrical symbol for a resistor superimposed on it. I think I remember seeing that symbol a long time ago but I can't remember who used it. Does anyone remember it. Joe

20 years, 1 month

1mbit dram chips?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 3 2004, 21:16, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: > My system came with one of the last NEAT-based mainboard, which > did support both the 1Mbit DRAM chips, as well as those funky > "SIPP" modules. It had 2 banks of those chips installed, and, > at the time, I also had two banks of SIPPs in it, for a total > of 4MB. For some reason, the SIPPs have been pulled, so I am > now looking for a bunch of either SIPP modules, and/or about > 18 of the 1Mbit chips to "fill the board." A 80286-12 copro > would be fun, too. I used to have one like that, and I may even still have some SIPPs -- but they would be 256K SIPPs, which you probably don't want. However, you do realise that SIPPs and SIMMs of the same size (capacity) have exactly the same pinout? You could either tack pins onto SIMMs (I've seen it done) or fit a SIMM socket to the board, if the spacing between the SIPPs is standard. I may also have some 1MB DRAM. What pinout and config does your board need? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 1 month

sony disk drive

by malihie＠yahoo.ca

Dear M Marder, I need your help… I have problem with my Floppy drive: Sony, Model MP-F52-00D, This floppy drive is connecting to our machine (not PC). What model it is possible to replace by? Is it possible to use the new floppy drive 1.44? How? Thanks for your advice Best Regards, Mostapha.. --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals

20 years, 1 month

"Old PC" emulation ?

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hi, While reading up on my old Minix stuff (I found a box full of my old Minix backup floppies a couple of weeks ago), I tried to install them onto a PC I, um, borrowed from my customer (I was in Oslo for the week, and was bored at nights ;-) but that would not install. Obviously, old system software does not necessarily have to run on the new, current (PC) systems. Which led me to consider the impact of this on being able to run the older PC software anytime in the future. Can one still install a QNX box, or a Minix box, or an OS/2 system? So.. what it boils down to is: is there any (serious) project on doing a "old pc systems" emulation a la SimH, which does, for example, a pure IBM PC, PC/XT or PC/AT ? Just some random thoughts... Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://VAXlab.pdp11.nl/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Mountain View, CA, USA

20 years, 1 month

IBM PC: JUMPER Settings for Tandon and CDC full-height floppy drives

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 3 2004, 5:40, Bill Pileggi wrote: > > Just went through the nightmare of setting the jumpers on the original CDC full-height drives for the IBM PC. As best as I can figure out, there are 3(!!) jumpers that have to be set on the top board. The Tandon drive is slightly better, there is only 1 jumper. Does anyone have the definative page(s) from the manual(s) or it's equivalent? Bill They're very similar. I should have manuals for both somewhere, and AFAIR both have pretty standard sets of jumpers. What do you want to know? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 1 month

Geek tattoos

by vcf＠siconic.com

http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/geek1.html There's even a guy that did the MITS logo! (see page 8) -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

20 years, 1 month

IBM PC: JUMPER Settings for Tandon and CDC full-height floppy drives

by wpileggi＠juno.com

Just went through the nightmare of setting the jumpers on the original CDC full-height drives for the IBM PC. As best as I can figure out, there are 3(!!) jumpers that have to be set on the top board. The Tandon drive is slightly better, there is only 1 jumper. Does anyone have the definative page(s) from the manual(s) or it's equivalent? Bill ________________________________________________________________ Speed up your surfing with Juno SpeedBand. Now includes pop-up blocker! Only $14.95/ month - visit http://www.juno.com/surf to sign up today!

20 years, 1 month

Up For Grabs: HP 13037 and HP 7925 disk drive

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I spotted these in a scrap place today. I brought the 13037 home but the 7925 was too big to fit in the car. The 13037 looks like it's in perfect condition and I have the cables for it. I think this stuff orginally came with the HP 1000 that I found last week. At any rate, I have 13037 interface cards in the 1000 and I'm willing to part with them too. The 7925 appears to be complete and in good condition. However it was dropped off of a truck and may be damaged internally. I don't know if the heads and spindle were locked or not. I have no way to haul or ship the 7925 so don't ask. It's located in central Florida so plan on coming and getting it if you want it. Anyone intersted in the 7925 needs to let me know ASAP so that I can make sure that it doesn't get torn apart for the gold scrap and aluminium. Best offer or trade me something that I can't live without :-) Joe PS it looks like these have the MAC interface.

20 years, 1 month

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test-drb November 2004