Curt-
Yes, this has a built in CD-ROM drive with a caddy!
All I need is a copy of the CD.
I will see if the backdoors are open though...
-Ken V.
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From: Curt Vendel [mailto:curt@atarimuseum.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:38 AM
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Subject: Re: Got a DEC 2000 Alpha server, need help
The older VMS 3.x used to have some holes in it.
Try logging in:
field
field
test
test
system
system
See if the backdoors are still open, otherwise you'll have to
reinstall. You 2K have a CD-rom? I will burn copies of the OpenVMS 7.3
Curt
Van Mersbergen, Ken wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I got a DEC 2000 Alpha server and it is working great!
>
>It has VMS 5.2 installed on it and that's where I'm stuck.
>
>Since I don't have a login user name or password I can't really do anything
>with it.
>
>Is there a way to "hack" VMS so I can get in?
>
>Or do I just need to reinstall VMS and start from scratch?
>
>
>
>-Ken V.
>
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>If I understand you correctly, you are saying that major subsystems were
>added to the CPU and wired into the backplane by a former user, who removed
>these components without regard to its effect on the operability of the
>machine before you came into possession of it. That wouldn't surprise me at
>all. Many academic and lab shops did extensive custom modifications, like
>the famous BBN paging box on the Tenex KA-10s.
No, the Oregon PDP is also barely recognizeable. The PDP-7 was originally
meant to be scrapped (was laying around) but it was salvaged by Professor
Nordhagen, and ccmaniac librarian Knut Hegna (who has some other minis
next to the PDP-7) when the new library building was built in 1987.
The last trace of usage I have is 1976.
>These machines went through multiple
>revisions and field ECOs during their lifetime. There was a set of field
>maintenance prints issued for the specific revision that a customer had,
>which was then kept up to date with the machine. (At least this is true of
>the Straight-8 of similar vintage.)
I have three sets of wrap lists. My intention (bad idea?) was to wrap
an original PDP-7/A, instead of one with ECOs - and later apply
any crucial ECOs I came across. (Al, do you have any?)
I could probably cook up some program that would give me schedules
based on wire lists (if I am understanding the concept of 'schedule' correctly
as something describing the order in which the wires are to be wrapped)
The PDP-7 ended up with several ADC's, apparently it had a plotter,
an IPB, a 'poor man's API', and so on. Some EE students aparently
kept it alive during its last days, but gave up, and returned it to the
Good Professor which originally bought it, and let me work on it.
He put it in storage, and it's now an exhibit.
Funny how PDP-7's tend to turn up vacantly sitting in corners, isn't it...? :)
>I can't read a word of Norwegian, but from the pictures, it appears that
>Norsk Data
>made quite a number of interesting machines from 1967 into recent years.
Yes, it was a fairly successful machine. I've heard that the first WWW server at
CERN actually was an ND machine, which wouldn't surprise me, given
the close cooperation the two institutions enjoyed. (I've heard.)
I was yesterday at the Norwegian museum of technology, (I may be working
with them on another restoration project - IBM 360/370-ish - but that is
entirely in the future and no deals have been made yet - if this is happening,
I will of course post immediately to cctech ;)) and amongst some neat exhibits
(Jaquard loom, IBM 650 (You should have seen me - crawling down, looking
at interiors and drum)) I saw a NORD-1. I don't know much about the machine,
but I do know that the one 7 was hooked up to had three 9-tracks, 16k core, but
not a very good display - the PDP-7 was later used as something of an intelligent
terminal and data-gatherer, hooked up to some (apparently brilliant) Italian ADCs,
and letting the NORD-1 do the numbercrunching.
The NORD-1 used IC's, and came with a line printer, that's about all I know. I do
seem to remember a 16-bit word length, though. The NORD-1 was a commercially
successful machine, and earned ND quite a lot of money. I believe it was the
NORD-100 which really got ND off to a start - but that's from doubleplusvague
memory. I'll get around to translating that page :)
Back to the wire-wrapping thing: Is it really that bad? There are admittedly a lot
of wires on it, but it doesn't seem all too hard (especially with an electric wrapper!)
Am I wrong, and am I not weighing the effort correctly? Is it harder than soldering?
The pins are not small, they are about 2mm x 1mm from memory measurement.
I thank everyone offering me wrappers!
Whew!
Thanks for all your help, people :)
-tsb
On Feb 9, 23:19, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Some of you guys probably have piles of databooks lying around :-)
>
> Can anyone tell me anything about a Philips MAB8031AH-12P CPU? Is it
a
> clone of anything more common? (given the 12MHz clock speed, 40 pin
DIP
> and a mid-80's build date, I doubt it)
I don't need a data book for that one :-) It's the base member of the
Intel 8051 family, also known as the MCS-51 family, which is an
enhanced version of the 8048 family of microcontrollers. IIRC it has
some extra instructions and addressing modes.
The 8031 is the version without on-board ROM. Philips was one of
several second-sources for it.
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I need $40 badly. I am considering selling my KDA50
boards with those internal cables, and a pair of iron
covers. Do they worth $40? If not I would like to keep
them because without these power consumers my VAX3900
won't boot. Without them the VAX3900 looks less and
less like a 3900 though it consists of a bare cage
without rack and front door anyway.
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Anybody have one they would be willing to copy for this nixie multimeter?
Thanks,
David Gesswein
http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights.
Got a call last week from a local vendor who remembered that I was looking
for a 7 track drive. He found two (!) as they were going through their inventory.
They are EXACTLY what I have been trying to find for a long, long time..
HP7970 tension arm drives with DUAL MODE 7/9 track head assemblies! They are
capable of reading anything from 7trk 200bpi to 9trk 1600 bpi tapes.
I won't say how much they were (they weren't cheap) but as part of the deal
he let me go through some of his head stack spares, and I found 14 dual mode
head stacks! (he let me have five of them with the drives)
--al (doing the Snoopy dance right now!)
Enjoy it while you can. It won't last long:
See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34035.html
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it with a personal account for about a month. I've gone from something
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>>>>> February 1, 2004, Sunday
Radio Days or High-Tech, It's All the Same
By NEIL GENZLINGER
THOSE of you who are still hoping that computers,
cellphones, digital cameras and other modern gadgetry
are passing fads and that we will soon return to the
simpler days of a half-century ago might have been
dismayed with what Phil Vourtsis had on display at the
David Sarnoff Library the other day.
The event was a combination exhibition and
radio-repair clinic, with members of the New Jersey
Antique Radio Club doing the honors. Mr. Vourtsis, the
club's president and the author of ''The Fabulous
Victrola 45,'' had a display related to the dear
departed 45-r.p.m. record that was fascinating and
hilarious, but also depressing.
The hilarity came from a 1949 promotional film in
which an impossibly earnest fellow was extolling the
virtues of this new way to listen to music.
''Distortion-free records!'' he exclaimed. And
indestructible. ''Bend 'em, bounce 'em; nothing
happens!''
The depressing part was Mr. Vourtsis' sampling of
newspaper articles from the period. It turns out the
innocent little 45 wasn't so innocent after all; it
was part of a war between RCA-Victor (which made many
of its breakthroughs at labs in New Jersey) and
Columbia for the ears of America. The new 45 from RCA
was competing with a seven-inch disc Columbia had just
introduced as well as Columbia's LP's, and all were
different from older-style records - different speeds,
different needles, different players.
''The record-playing public,'' read one account,
''which buys from 200,000,000 to 300,000,000 new disks
a year, is faced with three mutually exclusive methods
of reproducing music from records. Neither of the two
new records can be played on conventional phonographs
or radio-phonographs, nor can either be used on
competing record-playing machines.''
It sounded, in other words, dismayingly like the
technological warfare that bedevils us today: VCR's
vs. assorted types of DVD's, CD's vs. MP3's, Windows
vs. Macs, attachments that won't open, digital cameras
that won't download. Evidently there never really was
a simpler time; products have always tried to push one
another out of the marketplace, and frustrated
consumers have always been left to play catch-up.
''Only today the turnaround on a product is much
faster,'' Mr. Vourtsis said.
His club (www.njarc.org) has about 200 members, and
watching them have fun with antique radios and other
ancient technology makes you wonder what people will
be doing a few decades hence with old cellphones.
(Notice how primitive the ones from the 90's already
look?) Lately, for instance, they've been having a
contest to see who can pick up the most distant radio
signal on a vintage receiver. When conditions are
right, noise from Chicago or Canada or Mexico might
squawk through the classic sets.
At the Sarnoff event, in Princeton, the club's experts
ran a repair clinic where people could bring old
radios for free doctoring. Some who brought in sick
sets were fellow hobbyists, but others were hoping to
revive a personal keepsake.
A lot of old radios are being unearthed these days in
New Jersey and everywhere else as the radio-crazy
generation dies off and its offspring inherit attics
full of stuff. Mr. Vourtsis said that at first the
repair clinics were just for club members, but then it
seemed there might be laymen out there in need of
vacuum-tube and soldering-gun assistance.
''It's pretty rewarding when we're able to help them
out because they feel like they've reconnected with
something from their childhood,'' he said.
Certain radios can be worth thousands of dollars, he
said, though many more models were just as
mass-produced as anything today and are worth less
than a first-generation digital camera. Also, some
antique sets might prefer to remain idle. For
instance, someone once brought in an Emerson Catalin
that gave Mr. Vourtsis pause.
''It was the kind of thing where I really didn't want
to get the radio working again because heat from the
radio could damage the cabinet,'' he said, ''and with
the Catalin that's where the value is.''
One other booth from the Sarnoff event is worth
mentioning, what with Valentine's Day not far off. It
was a display of valentines, sheet music and such with
radio themes, from the days when radio was new.
''There's a Wireless Station Down in My Heart,'' was
one song title. A card read, ''Over the radio you can
hear me pine, I want you for my Valentine.''
Apparently, linking romantic sentiments to the
high-tech device of the moment gives them extra
credibility. So here's an assignment for the season:
Use the words iPod, memory stick, mini-DVD and MP3 in
a love poem. Give it to your sweetie. Then duck.
