test-drb December 2004

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by jfoust＠threedee.com

I received a request for computer rescue at Kalamazoo College www.kzoo.edu in Michigan. Below is a mostly-complete list. They'd like someone to pick it up in early January. - John Epson MX 80 F/T printer Epson ? the big picture - monitor Gateway 2000 486/25C - computer HP ? computer 45945C OKI DATA microline 182 ? printer Compaq ? computer & keyboard Panasonic ? monitor Osborne ? computer + software discs Seagate ? harddrive? ? 2 of them ST225 Northgate ? computer HP D class 9000 ? computer Sun-UltraSCSI Sun?- monitor Gateway 2000 ? keybord HP 700/96 ? monitor computer shell Apple ? computer port HP ? keyboard ?computer ?computer AT&T Unix PC-computer+screen Sun Ultra I ? computer +screen IBM-PCAT ? computer IBM-PC? Apple IIe Digital VT100

20 years, 6 months

Ethernet Cables?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 29 2004, 10:29, John Allain wrote: > RJ45 type cables also factored in with IBM's Token Ring > connectivity. There were adaptors, probably Baluns to go > from the largish connectors to these. This _could_ be one. Not very likely, though. I think Jim is more likely correct, that it's a console cable or at least some sort of serial cable. The colours Marvin mentioned are often used for flat cable; baluns are for twisted pairs. Also, serial cables commonly use a scheme where the innermost two wires (4,5) are ground, either side are receive and transmit (3,6), and handshake lines DTR/DSR (or DCD) (2,7) and CTS/RTS (1,8) are at the edges. By that scheme, Marvin's cable would short DTR to DSR and RTS to CTS, which makes sense. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 6 months

Lisa 1 for Sale

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

NOT MINE and I do not know the seller, buy price is $4000 http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/88693646

20 years, 6 months

Kontron LA 32A

by ampartes＠megsinet.net

I just saw your request for software. I can make copies of the software.

20 years, 6 months

Couple of pdp-11 items wanted...

by mross666＠hotmail.com

Does anyone by any chance have a good 11/70 backplane that's surplus to requirements? I've a couple of QED-95 boardsets(1), but no 11/70 this side of the Atlantic to put them in... :-( (I plan to build a tabletop 'ultimate 11/70' with the QED-95, modern switcher power supply, Emulex SCSI, and internal SCSI disk... got all the bits except the backplane!) Alternatively, and even less likely, does anyone have a spare CIM-60 card? This is the QED front panel interface card that's required to use the QED-95 with an 11/35 chassis... Replies via email please, the list digests I receive are patchy at present - they arrive all in a lump every ten days or so, with nothing in between! (1) purchased on epay - latest one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5149783592 Discussion point: this seller has had quite a few QED-95s recently, and also quite a few Setasi PEP70/Hypercache sets. The PEP70/Hypercache consistently goes for much more money than the QED-95 - up to $300-400 for a set, I've seen. Anyone care to speculate why? Thanks Mike http://www.corestore.org

20 years, 6 months

Ethernet Cables?

by marvin＠rain.org

I found a couple of cables with the cable checker and have not been able to find out what these things are. Both ends are terminated with RJ-45 connectors, and the cable checker has pins 1 & 8 (blue/black) and 2 & 7 (yellow/orange) shorted together. They have a tag labled "IBM P/N 58X9806". One of them has a date of March 1990; anyone know what these things are used for? Thanks!

20 years, 6 months

12th edition of the Secret Weapons of Commodore

by spectre＠floodgap.com

After an unacceptably long hiatus and several days of round the clock work, the 12th edition of Secret Weapons of Commodore has been released. Secret Weapons of Commodore is a repository site for rare, unusual, prototype or vapourware Commodore computers and peripherals, focusing primarily on 8-bit systems, with photographs and contemporary literature references where possible. The URL is http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/ New entries: * the Drean Argentine remixes (thanks Pablo Trincavelli), with pictures; * the Norwegian 3032 and 128DCR (thanks Asbjorn Djupdal), with pictures; * the Swedish PET 200 (thanks Anders Gronberg), with pictures; * the Commodore "MIDI Keyboard" (thanks Holger Karlson); * the 1582 (thanks James Crook); New pictures: * complete pictures of the Ultimax (from my own unit), as well as additional pictures from Dan Benson; * additional pictures of the V364 (thanks Dan Benson); * additional pictures of the 232 (Dan again); * additional pictures and commercial blurbs of the VIC-1001 (Dan encore); * complete (and real this time!) pictures of the Lorraine boards, taken at VCF (in Dale Luck's possession); * complete pictures of the Swedish 3032 (thanks Peter Karlsson); * keyboard pictures of the Swedish 128DCR (Peter again); * the awful Swedish localization stickers (Peter encore); * internals of the Sound Sampler (thanks John Selck); * a screenshot of the 65 Burn-In board at work and an updated screenshot of the 65 intro screen (thanks Moise Sunda); * better picture of the 65 RAM expansion (thanks Riccardo Rubini); * picture of the C116 box (yours truly); * press clipping on the Music Maker (thanks Todd Elliott); Updates: * significant rewrites for clarity/accuracy of the Amiga early days; * updated current history of the Amiga and Commodore brand names, along with the C-One and DTV (thanks Jeri Ellsworth); * the TV Game series' technical data as evidenced by the Coleco Telstar; * notes on the C65 board, firmware and chip revisions (thanks Anders Carlsson, Riccardo); * another possible HHC-4 sighting in the Toshiba IHC-8000 (thanks Scott Jones); * information on the disk version of the SFX software; * the Music Maker seems to be an Incredible Music Keyboard clone (thanks Todd); * a little more history on the SX-500 (thanks Dale); * early specifications of the Lorraine; * the 364 does not have the same vocabulary as the Magic Voice (thanks Bo Zimmerman); * notes on the Ultimax's expansion port and rewrites for clarity; * Michael Tomczyk seems to call the 364 the "MAX"; * where the Sound Sampler's creator is now; * custodial updates to the 900, Golden 64, and Colour PET/TOI pages Please continue to submit any updates, sightings and corrections. The URL, as above, is http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/ -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here? -- Harold Urey, Nobel laureate -----------

20 years, 6 months

Lisa 1 for Sale

by wayne.smith＠charter.net

> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:09:29 +0000 > From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: RE: Lisa 1 for Sale > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Message-ID: <1104239369.4987.4.camel(a)weka.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 21:21 -0500, chris wrote: > > >I'm not usually the paranoid type, but the seller has been > a member > > >for all of eight hours, has a baker's dozen high-priced items with > > >"reasonable" starting and buy bids all ending within > minutes of each > > >other. . . > > > > > >As much as I'd like a Lisa 1, this doesn't feel right. > > > > Uh, yeah, and none of his stuff has photos. You would think, if you > > plan > > to get 4 grand for a computer that clearly condition makes > a difference > > in the price, you would post some photos. Ditto for some of > his other > > items. > > > > My immediate thought too. Plus they write like a 5 year old. > Interesting how they say about the Twiggy drives being a bit > flakey, as though there is a real machine behind all of this > - it seems like an out of character comment with the rest of the post. > > I suppose it's the sort of thing I'd want to see personally > before bidding (if I were the type to use ebay, which I'm > not) and if that wasn't possible then just walk away. > > cheers > > J. The description appears to be copied from the Lisa 1 currently up on Ebay with a bid of $10K - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80075&item=514999 8223&rd=1 - suggesting that it's probably fraudulent.

20 years, 6 months

Problems with my PDP 11/24 (was:Question about memory boards used on VAX 11/7xx)

by cheri-post＠web.de

> > That's the info I found on the net from a 11/750 FAQ: > > > > "National Semiconductor Memory Systems: 1Mb memory boards. These > > boards have PWB 551109464-002 B > > PWA 980109464-001 D > > etched on them. They have a push-button switch for disabling the > > board, and a spare memory chip in a socket on the board. Board has > > green and yellow LEDS, which should normally both be on. Disabling > > the board causes the yellow LED to go out, and the red LED on the > > L0016 to come on, indicating bad memory configuration." > > Those almost certainly aren't UNIBUS memory boards, but are > 11/750-specific boards. Thanks for this information, Patrick. I guess, I'll have to wait for such a VAX, I haven't one yet ;-) Currently, I'm setting up my 11/24. It comes with an RL02. Yesterday, I worked on it a bit, checking grant and bus continuity, everything's fine now. I found out the bootstrap adress for the RL02 (BOOT Proms are located on the Unibus Map Module (KT24)) and gave it a try, with the RL02 disconnected. No problems with typing in digits with the VT420 terminal. This morning, the 11/24 apparently don't accepts commands from the terminal, why ? On the CPU-Board, the CLK-LED is always illuminated, even when I press the Boot-button. Then, the RUN - und the PROC-LED turns on for a moment, that's all. Yesterday, when I typed in the bootstrap adress of the diagnostics-PROM, the 1 - LED turned on. The 0 - LED always remained off. Today, no typing in is possible. When I press the boot-button, I obtain something like @000002 I need to know the meanings of the LEDs on the CPU-Board. Can anyone give me some help ? In the Maintenance-Card, the functions of the LEDs are described but it doesn't appear to be on the net somewhere... Thanks alot in advance ! Pierre __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201

20 years, 6 months

Help: Looking for IBM timing belt replacement.

by h.j.stegeman＠hccnet.nl

Hi all, Who can help me with a source for a timing belt for my IBM 5203 line printer ? The old belt has given up after 13 years... See: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.j.stegeman/IBMbelt.jpg. It is a US sized belt: Tooth pitch: 0.125" (1/8)" (this pitch size makes it hard to find) Witdh belt: 0.500" (1/2)" Outer length: 13 inch (98 tooths) Thickness belt: +/- 0.080" Finding this belt in Europe is hopeless, all metrical sizes. Thanks for any reaction / tips that will make printer work again ! Regards Henk Stegeman IBM System/3 owner.

20 years, 6 months

Available: old Vectra / MS-DOS 3.1 / QuietJet / misc manuals

by ss＠allegro.com

Hi, I received the following from a friend in France. If anyone is interested in it, email me and I'll send you his email address. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- ... While browsing my dad's attic a few days back, I stumbled on old Vectra and MS-DOS manuals, ca. '86. There is the complete documentation set that was sent with 286-powered machines, complete with MS-DOS 3.1 documentation, plus a QuietJet user manual, and a few other items. If you are interested, I can e-mail you a complete list. The stuff is yours for the price of shipping. If you are willing to pass this on to another possibly interested person, that's OK. Otherwise, it will all go to my dad's trash can. I've asked my dad to wait a few days [before trasking the stuff]. ... 91240 SAINT-MICHEL-SUR-ORGE FRANCE ------- End of forwarded message ------- thanks, Stan

20 years, 6 months

Paging Roger Merchberger

by rcini＠optonline.net

I hate to use the CCList for this and I appologize in advance, but I can't reach Roger at any of his 30below.com addresses. Every message I send regarding the CCArchive List bounces. At this point I can only lurk on that list because I can't post to it from my subscribed email address. Thanks. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

20 years, 6 months

IBM 51XX floppy drives available

by anheier＠owt.com

Clean out again. I have some floppy drives from early IBM 5150/60s. These are tested good. I would like $15 each + shipping. Thanks Norm

20 years, 6 months

Intel MDS Series-4 Help

by river＠zip.com.au

Hi, I've got a RAM march error upon power up. Does anyone have a circuit diagram or information that can help me pin-point the bad DRAM chip so I can get this old baby working again? seeyuzz river

20 years, 6 months

Not ten years old, but...

by gordon＠gjcp.net

... has anyone had experience of repairing Belinea DH-1764 monitors? It's a rather nice 17" monitor, but it has started losing width - the image is *almost* right with the width set to full but then the pincushion correction goes a bit funny. Cleaned up and resoldered obvious dry joints which stopped the flickering. Dried up electrolytic somewhere? The original symptoms were a width-wise flickering *very* intermittently, then one day I turned it on and the picture was a couple of inches too narrow. Gordon.

20 years, 6 months

Celebrity Classics Sighting

by gsutton9503＠wavecable.com

After hearing about the big earthquake and tsunamis that pounded the Far East, I found myself wondering about one of my all-time favorite sci-fi authors, Arthur C. Clarke. He lives in Sri Lanka, one of the areas that was hit hardest, so I was snooping around the Web to see if I could find any info as to whether or not he is okay. During my search, I came across this real cool pic of him working hard on 2010: Odyssey 2. The copyright date on the picture is 1984, so it is no surprise that a couple cool classics would be involved. Check it out... http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Kaypro.gif

20 years, 6 months

Lisa 1 for Sale

by cb＠mythtech.net

>I'm not usually the paranoid type, but the seller has been a member for >all of eight hours, has a baker's dozen high-priced items with >"reasonable" starting and buy bids all ending within minutes of each >other. . . > >As much as I'd like a Lisa 1, this doesn't feel right. Uh, yeah, and none of his stuff has photos. You would think, if you plan to get 4 grand for a computer that clearly condition makes a difference in the price, you would post some photos. Ditto for some of his other items. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 6 months

COMPLETE Votrax PSS available on eBay

by jgevaryahu＠hotmail.com

A COMPLETE (including the manual, brochures, quick reference sheet, power supply, and parallel cable) Votrax Personal Sound System is available on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=162&item=5151487740&… (I *WISH* I had all the peripherals that one comes with, with mine... It even includes the custom parallel Y cable, which I still need to find the wire mapping for and build... Speaking of which, I should get off my lazy rear and finish building the power supply for mine first so I can see if it even WORKS...) Jonathan Gevaryahu lord_nightmare_(a)t_users.sf.net jgevaryahu_(a)t_hotmail.com P.S. sorry for the multi-send, comcast's mailserver seems to have some sort of a rate limit against it by whatever isp classiccmp runs behind, so the original message will probably arrive after the auction is over.

20 years, 6 months

SCSI>DSSI (I owe someone a thank you)

by thompson＠new.rr.com

A few weeks ago someone (Sorry, I forgot who) pointed out a DSSI tape unit available on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5144248734 I bid on it, thinking that it would be phun to play with at a low price. I won, and the unit contains a couple of old DDS SCSI tapes but more importantly a CMD CDI-4000 SCSI/DSSI converter which appears from the SET HOST/DUP firmware to be identical to my other CDI-4000 which does either SCSI disks or tapes just fine. Woo hoo! Score. Thanks Paul

20 years, 6 months

PDP 11/34 available in CA

by classiccmp＠vintage-computer.com

I got this via email late yesterday: ? "Would you know of anyone that would be interested in a DEC PDP11-34? We just got one in stock and I can provide you with pix and a list of the boards inside if you need." ? So, if you might be interested in the 11/34 please let me know and I'll put you in touch with the seller. ? Email me webmasterNOSPAM(a)vintage-computer.com ? Happy Holidays! ? ?? Erik Klein ?? www.vintage-computer.com ?? www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum ?? The Vintage Computer Forum ? ? ?

20 years, 6 months

HP 5036a manuals

by mokuba＠gmail.com

If you still have the manuals for loan, I'd be more then happy to scan them in the mornings before school, I'd love to get copies of them and to do that I'd be more then willing to scan them up. Comp teacher has a scanner I can use in the mornings, so that's good! Heh, if you can, I'd love to, just laid hands on a trainer that seems fully functional, and I'm looking about for manuals, hard to come by on the 'net though ! :/

20 years, 6 months

pc-2 plotter pens

by joesag＠prodigy.net

Hi, I know you were looking for these over a year ago. I have a source. Do you have a source for the small gear thats on the motor piston of a pc-2 printer ? I need about a dozen...Joe

20 years, 6 months

Question about memory boards used on VAX 11/7xx

by cheri-post＠web.de

Hello guys, > > Can I use these boards in my PDP 11/24, too ? > Nope, not if they're 7xx boards. If these are standard UNIBUS boards, > you should be able to use them in both the 7xx and a PDP-11. > That's the info I found on the net from a 11/750 FAQ: "National Semiconductor Memory Systems: 1Mb memory boards. These boards have PWB 551109464-002 B PWA 980109464-001 D etched on them. They have a push-button switch for disabling the board, and a spare memory chip in a socket on the board. Board has green and yellow LEDS, which should normally both be on. Disabling the board causes the yellow LED to go out, and the red LED on the L0016 to come on, indicating bad memory configuration." Fred, what do you mean with "very wide boards" exactly ? These boards do have 6 fingers (hex wide) and fit into a usual UNIBUS slot. What are the differences between the VAX11 bus and the ordinary UNIBUS ? Can I find that out with a closer look to the pins ? Pierre __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201

20 years, 6 months

RF35/RZ35 HDD

by dennys_xor＠hotmail.com

Hi I am very interested in your 2 digital digital RF35/RZ35 HDD I live in Peru ,Latin America and I want to know some details about your disks, cause ii have a Micro Vax II ,and If you want to sell them I have the money and I have the Vax Please Answer this as soon as You can , I want the specifications and the approximate price Thanx Greetings form Peru _________________________________________________________________ Charla con tus amigos en l?nea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.latam.msn.com/

20 years, 6 months

S-100 Polymorphic Systems card questions

by Saquinn624＠aol.com

I have a S-100 based system that seems to mostly run, but I have some questions on the video card. It is a Polymorphic Systems card, but looks different from all the examples I could find on the internet Markings are: Polymorphic Systems (c) 1976 I.P.C VIDEO? rev 0.0, with most chips aligned vertically The keyboard? port is a 14 pin DIP socket in the upper R.H. corner, next to a 8212 I/O chip. Between this and the VIDEO marking, there are some pads with heat damage that have the symbol for Zener diode across one of them. I have no idea what the component specs are for these pads. Also, 2 questions: does anyone have the DIP switch settings table for this card? 7 switches, currently set at 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 and (2) the 8212 interface makes me think that the keyboard is some sort of parallel interface, but the computer came with a DIP header connected to 3 wires (bonus question: this card has some jumper wires and a resistor soldered on the trace side of the PCB, is this official, or is this a hack? the joints look sort of "hacky" the resistor goes between +Vcc and pin 20 of the 6571AL, the jumpers are between some of the 74XXX gates on the L.H. side of the card [where the 7805 V.R. is]) found it at my church garage sale several years ago, so I can't "ask the owner" Scott Quinn

20 years, 6 months

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test-drb December 2004