Hi again Guys,
Had a VT-180 show up on my doorstep last week, and knowing another
local collector who had one in "unknown condition", I decided to
spend some time working on the two machines.
Good news is that I have both of them working and booting up.
But there are assorted bits and pieces missing, if anyone happens
to have any of these VT-180 parts kicking around, please let me know:
- One machine is missing the drive cable (the data cable from the VT-180
to the RX-180 disk unit)
- One machine is missing the metal back cover/shield for the card cage
- Both machines are missing the plastic shroud which covers the above
mentioned cover/shield and connectors.
- Both machines have "VT-100" nameplates - would like to find the VT-180
nameplates.
- One machine is missing the ESC and '3' keys from the keyboard - this
is a standard VT-100 keyboard, so keys from a VT-100 would also be a
perfect match.
Regards,
Dave
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dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
com Vintage computing equipment collector.
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:11:26 -0600
> From: "Keys" <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
> Subject: Who Made/Makes the World Smallest Harddrive
> To: "cctalk@classiccmp" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>
> IS it IBM? I need one for a museum display we are putting together.
Thanks
>
Toshiba has one less than an inch across that holds 2.5-GB. They also
had another one that was 1.8-inches and held 40-GB.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3381997.stm
On Dec 17 2004, 13:43, Ashley Carder wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the oldest documented functional computer is
that is
> > connected to the internet?
> ..... and is accessible by others via telnet, etc?
I'd suppose David Gesswein's PDP-8 would be a candidate. I have a
PDP-11/83 called titus running BSD2.11 which is internet-accessible,
and my PDP-8/E has a serial line on a terminal server which is also
internet-accessible, but neither is powered up 24/7.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I know this is a bad subject, but I was reading an article about
windows nt and the influence dec had on it. In the article it said
that compaq kept development of windows 2000 up to 1999 on Alphas.
Has anyone here seen it running on an Alpha and do you know if many
people developed software to run on it. I knew they had NT on a lot of
architectures but 2000 is a new one.
Thanks
Dan
I got this email today.
Does anyone in Italy or Europe want a SWTPC 6800 system?
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paolo Meyer" <paolo(a)igc.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 8:49 AM
Subject: request of info about SWTPC
> Dear friend,
> I was one of the first italian SWTPC users. Now I need more room in my
> apartment so I need to give away some original BOXES and Boards.
>
> Do you know if exist in Europe or at least in Italy someone who can
> be interested in this kind of olds stuff?
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> Paolo Meyer
I second the spare parts threat... no need.
As for the cable pinout, I may have it with me (I just flew into Seattle from Virginia for the holidays). If I don't then I can email the connection scheme when I get back after the 2nd of January. I detailed not only the external cable, but the internal cable to make the internal drive a double density.
I can send iPDS disks after I get back on the 2nd also.
I'm with Dave, no need to replace the internal drive. Leave all the hardware as-is for now. The double density is the controller - not the drive.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
I saw an ebay auction about a vaxbrick 4000-50. What is a vaxbrick
4000-50? I googled and didn't find much information. I'd guess that it
uses NVAX cpu. But, what is the the clock frequency, and how big is
the cache? What memory options does it support?
vax, 9000
> Does anyone know what the oldest documented functional computer is that is
> connected to the internet?
..... and is accessible by others via telnet, etc?
Ashley
