test-drb February 2004

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by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

Several weeks ago the subject of MSCP docs came up. I think there may be a scanned copy of AA-L619A-TK (MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual) out there somewhere, though I can't find it, but not, AFAIK, AA-L620A-TK (Storage Systems Diagnostics and Utility Protocol) and AA-L621A-TK (Storage System Unibus Port Description). These are the three components of the UDA50 Progammer's Kit, QP-905-GZ (which, despite the name, isn't really UDA50-specific) I have all three. Anyone in the UK or Netherlands want to scan them? The three documents are respectively 170pp, 46pp, and 58pp. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 4 months

Where is the Comprehensive Computer Catalogue?

by citem＠citem.org

Paul, Thanks for your interest in the CCC I am just coming out of a period of personal crisis - no salary for over 18 months! Hopefully I will be in a position to put the CCC back on-line in the near future. As to the ClassiCcmp, I was kicked off and am unable to resubscribe. My messages just don't get through. I suspect a spam filter somewhere is munching my messages. I am forced to read the archived messages :-( Once again thanks for you interest, I'll try and send a message to cccmp when the list goes unline. -- Hans

20 years, 4 months

Aargh...It never ends..

by allain＠panix.com

> Ducking and running as I post this.... > http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=10&threadID=147374&mess ageID=1579357 Problem, agreed. <play> Wasn't it concluded that it took something like 50mA to kill? Soooo... If we convert our houses and appliances to 30KV/50mA, we can get them to run, without danger of _death_. I guess the house would then approximate a plasma dome... And it wouldn't it be difficult to hold a cup of coffee? </play> John A. prior message misfired, note, Not by stray voltage.

20 years, 4 months

Anyone in contact with Al Jacobs?

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Hi Folks, Has anyone been in contact with a guy in Wisconsin named Al Jacobs? If you have, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Brian Knittel

20 years, 4 months

Unknown QBUS board

by technobug＠comcast.net

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:04:03 +0100, Sebastian Br?ckner <sebastian.brueckner(a)epost.de> schreibt: > A few month ago I acquired a VAXstation 3200. It runs runs very nicely > with a Emulex UC08 SCSI-Controller off a 1GB full-height SCSI-Disk. > > There is one QBUS card in the system that I can't identify. > As far as I know the VAX has been used for measurement data aquisition > in a physics laboratory. > The only connector to the outside is for a 40-pin ribbon cable. I got a > very long (10m I guess) cable with the box so I suppose it is using > some > kind of differential data transmission. > Unfortunately I don't know what was connected to the other end of the > cable. Probably the card is useless without that second part (maybe a > A/D-Converter?). > > The board occupies all 4 slots and is populated mostly with small ICs > of > the 74xxx series and some PALs. > > The Label says: > > KINETICSYSTEMS > MODEL D1571 > MODEL 2922-Z1B > > I did not find any usable information on he net. Does anyone of you > know > what this board does? > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastian You have the Qbus part (KSC2922) of a KSC2922/3922, Qbus CAMAC interface. CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) is an instrumentation system extensively used in the nuclear/high energy area. The other end of the cable that you have connected to a rack in which various and sundry instrumentation modules could be placed. IIRC the CAMAC bus was 24 bits and the hardware that you have either packed the data 24->32 or various other packings. The basic standard is IEEE 583. There are a number of standards covering a serial interface as well as software APIs. What you need now is to find a CAMAC bin and the other end of that interface and you can become a nuclear terrorist ;)) Claude

20 years, 4 months

FCC IDs for Xerox DandeTigers ...?

by bob＠copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca

Oh great Gurus of Obscure Facts: Does anyone happen to have at their fingertips any FCC ID information about the Xerox 8000 or 1108 series hardware and the monitors that go with it? I am about to ship a couple of these babies to Tony Eros (member of this list) and I may need this info to get the customs people to let them through. Many thanks in advance, Bob. Bob Bramwell 60 Baker Cr. NW | What would happen if they cloned ProntoLogical Calgary, AB | Schrodinger's Cat? +1 403/861-8827 T2L 1R4, Canada | - Andrew Spiers, Oxford U.

20 years, 4 months

PING Peter Wallace

by jpl15＠panix.com

Email me off-list please - somehow I have deleted your email addr.. Cheers John

20 years, 4 months

Seeking TED chips, 8501R1 (for C plus/4 and C 16's)

by buzzer1＠poczta.onet.pl

hello I've got 8501R1. I'don't need that. Have you needed that yet? Paul from Poland.

20 years, 4 months

FCC IDs for Xerox DandeTigers ...?

by bob＠copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca

They were probably built around 1983 or so. As for why the customs care... I dunno: they just do. Every time I have to ship stuff to the U.S. I have to provide copies of form FCC 740 (Statement regarding the Importation of Radio Frequency Devices Capable of causing Harmful Interference) for monitors and computers. Sometimes (and I'll have to figure out exactly what the circumstances are) I also need a form FD 2877 (Food & Drug Administration: Declaraion for Products Subject to Radiation Control Standards). And you thought Canadian bureaucracy was bad! Anyway, thanks for the info. I'll fill out the forms accordingly and hope for the best. >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:21:22 -0500 >From: Paul Koning <pkoning(a)equallogic.com> >To: bob(a)copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca, cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >Cc: cctech(a)classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: FCC IDs for Xerox DandeTigers ...? > >>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Bramwell <bob(a)copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca> writes: > > Bob> Oh great Gurus of Obscure Facts: Does anyone happen to have at > Bob> their fingertips any FCC ID information about the Xerox 8000 or > Bob> 1108 series hardware and the monitors that go with it? I am > Bob> about to ship a couple of these babies to Tony Eros (member of > Bob> this list) and I may need this info to get the customs people to > Bob> let them through. > >When were those built? If it was before the early 1980s, there wasn't >any such thing as an FCC ID. If one was assigned it should be on one >of the stickers on the box, near the model and serial numbers. > >If it's newer than that, you might be able to extract it from an FCC >database that supposedly exists on-line with this stuff in it, but I >know no details about that. > >Why would customs care? > > paul > Bob Bramwell 60 Baker Cr. NW | What would happen if they cloned ProntoLogical Calgary, AB | Schrodinger's Cat? +1 403/861-8827 T2L 1R4, Canada | - Andrew Spiers, Oxford U.

20 years, 4 months

Flash mob computing

by vcf＠siconic.com

Interesting concept: get a bunch of people together who all have at least a 1.3Ghz P-III (or AMD equivalent) laptop with at least 256MB RAM and a 100baseT network connection and hook them all together to try to get onto the list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers: http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/ Maybe I'm behind the times, but I don't think that many people can afford such a laptop right around now. 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, 4 months

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test-drb February 2004