test-drb April 2004

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by brad＠heeltoe.com

I should probably search the archive, but has anyone experience with RA90's? I got one recently and when I powered it up (after a thorough cleaning) it faulted with E9. I have (thankfully) several manuals for this device and it seems to indicate the solenoid which "pulls the pin" on what looks like the voice coil head motion thing may be sticking. "head motion thing" - that's a techinical term. (ok, if you must know, I bought it on ebay, but for 2 orders of magnitude less than the truck full of pdp's :-) I've decided that I like RA90's better than RA81's :-) mostly because I can lift them :-) The drive spins up and I can run the diagnostics. The simple tests work. any thoughts? -brad

20 years, 8 months

Contact Ethan Dicks

by jhfinexgs2＠compsys.to

Hi Ethan, I have tried to send you a private e-mail, but it is rejected?

20 years, 8 months

FS/FT: MTI Stingray SCSI - HSC for CI VAX Cluster

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. I have a MTI Stingray SCSI HSC. I.e. a 3 U 19" rack mount box that has a VAX CI (4 x Coax) interface on one side and a (HVD) SCSI interface on the other side. It appears on the CI as single cluster node with several attached disks, like a real DEC HSC. Together with the HSC come four SCSI drive canisters. Each of it can hold at least two SCSI disks. The SCSI drive canisters also contain some electronic to convert the 8 bit single ended SCSI bus of the disks to the 8 bit HVD SCSI bus of the Stingray HSC. There is also rack mount stuff for the drive canisters. So you can get a complete CI HSC with 7 SCSI disks in 9 U 19" rack space. I have a MTI CIQBA Qbus to CI adapter also. Yes, a Qbus to CI adapter. It needs special (VMS) drivers that you can get from MTI. There are no disks in the canisters. I had to leave the disks at the company where I got this machinery. There where some Seagate and Micropolis disks in the range from 2 to 4 GB in the canisters. I suspect that 7 x 4 GB is sufficient for a small home VAX cluster. ;-) Unfortunately I don't have any cables, so I can't test this. All I did was to plug in a MMJ cable to the console of the Stingray SCSI HSC and play with its firmware. I would like to trade SCSI HSC + drive canisters + CIQBA for some other nifty equipment, preferably DEC, but I am interrested in any *ix stuff. (Even if it is younger then 10 years. Special Interrest: SGI Octane CPU mudule > 300 MHz R12k or Vpro GFX or HP9000 Cxxxx. ;-) ) -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

20 years, 8 months

Things to do in Detroit ~April 24-25?

by bill＠timeguy.com

Hey gang. My mate and I are going to be in Detroit over the weekend of April 24-25 and I was wondering if any of you know of any technological (or just interesting) events or locations we should visit while we're there. We have some flexibility in arriving a few days early and/or staying a few days late, so anywhere around that weekend would be fine.

20 years, 8 months

manuals for programmer

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Sorry folks I ment it for Al Kossow. Dwight >From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com> > >Hi Al > I'm going to need to dump some 2708's soon. Do >you think I can get the manuals back on Monday? >Dwight > > >

20 years, 8 months

manuals for programmer

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Al I'm going to need to dump some 2708's soon. Do you think I can get the manuals back on Monday? Dwight

20 years, 8 months

Tricord Powerframe 30 Parts Available

by martinm＠allwest.net

I have a couple of Tricord Powerframe 30 computers that are destined for scrap. These are huge i486 boxes with all proprietary components. If anyone wants any parts of these, let me know and I'll remove and ship the parts. Martin Marshall

20 years, 8 months

help needed with Fujitsu M244x reel tape drive

by cheri-post＠web.de

Hi all ! Yesterday, I got the hand on a Fujitsu drive model 2443 (rack version). The drive seems to be in a good shape. The only problem is, that the front door with the control panel is missing, I figured it out with the help of the manual on Al's site (thanks once again, Al !!). Unfortunately, the manual doesn't contain schematics of the drive, so that I could rebuild a control panel, as it just has several light indicators and some switches. Does anybody have schematics for the control panel of this beast or a panel he would like to sell or get rid off ? Any help is appreciated Pierre ____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE Virenschutz schuetzt Ihr Postfach vor dem Wurm Sober.A-F! Kostenfrei fuer FreeMail Nutzer. http://f.web.de/?mc=021158

20 years, 8 months

Proxim RangeLAN2/ISA card?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I found one of these today. Is anyone familar with them? This one is a 16 bit ISA card and I can't find anything about this model on the net. Does anyone know if it's compatible with the current wireless LAN cards? Joe

20 years, 8 months

SSMEC?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone know of any computer related meaning for the name/acronym SSMEC? I've found some Honeywell H316 parts that are marked 'for program SSMEC'. I've found one definition of SSMEC but the meanng seems to be a little too fantastic. Joe

20 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2004