Hi Dave,
Saw your article about the keyboard. I'm interested in purchasing it for $5
plus shipping. I'm in Indiana, zip code 46601.
Can you tell me how much shipping would be, and if you still have the
keyboard?
Thanks
Mark
mherro(a)attglobal.net
>Did any of these ever sell?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4133134046
They must have.
The ebay seller just aquired the unit from someone on the LEM Swap list.
The original dealer on the swap list said be bought it from an estate
auction in Texas, and that there were a bunch of them. He reported 2
complete working units, plus enough broken ones to make 12-15 more. He
said the broken ones all had the typical PB 5300 failures (like broken
power connectors).
His feeling was, the items may have been from a repair facility
originally. (He put a friend onto them that will use them for education
where the touch screens will come in handy, so as a result, he was left
with just the one unit which he traded for some other parts to the person
that is now selling it on ebay).
Its a shame to see it end up on ebay. I'd have been much happier to see
it go directly to a collector that would have valued it and not hocked it
off to the highest bidder. Now who knows where it will wind up. (I myself
was interested in it, but since I could only offer $100, I didn't have
much of a shot at getting it when others reportedly offered $500 for it)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Does anyone know what this is?
<http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/epc-7/hitachi.jpg> It's marked "Hitachi
model H40PC01". It has an alpha-numeric keyboard so I'm guessing that it
may be some kind of hand held terminal. There's a paper label on the
display that's marked "Page | Addr | A B X Y spx spy s/c". It appears to
have a green VF display but it gets it's power via the ribbon cable so I
haven't been able to power it up. It has a 26 conductor ribbon cable about
3 foot logn attached to it with an IDC socket on the other end.
Joe
On May 24, 12:15, Brad Parker wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> >On Monday 24 May 2004 06:15, Brad Parker wrote:
> >>
> >> I think you'll need the annex software to talk to it and configure
it
> >> over ethernet. I'd think that would be reasonably easy to fine
> >> (heh).
> >
> >I've given up looking for mine. The software seems to be basically
> >impossible to find. I think I found a guy via Google who claimed to
> >have software for an Annex 1, but he never got back to me about it.
>
> I think I have some around here somewhere on 1/4" tape. I gave away
> my microannex but I know who has it. I'll check.
If you can't find it, give me a heads-up and I'll put my copy on a web
page somewhere, temporarily. I can't find the original tar files (I
have at least two versions) just at the moment, but if all else fails
I'll do a "make clean" on the top-level directory and tar the rest up
for you.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Dont know if people are already familiar with this, but I just found it:
http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
Looks like someone built an apple card for compact flash that looks like a
hard drive? Oh, also has an IDE interface.
Works with ][, ][+, //e and later. Prodos 8 and GS/OS supported. Apparently
not DOS3.3
Jay West
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On May 24, 7:15, Brad Parker wrote:
>
> Nickolas Falkner wrote:
> >
> >I've tried powering on with the switch in diag and normal and
terminal
> >connected at 9600,4800,2400 and 1200 (all N-8-1) but, so far, no
joy.
>
> As I recall, dimly, it probably wants to boot over the network using
a
> xylogics proprietary protocol. I don't remember if that one would
tftp,
> but I don't think so.
If it's like the other Annexes, like the two I have here, there's
nothing proprietary about it at all. You can do the basic setup (IP
address etc) either using BOOTP or by using the serial console, and the
rest in admin mode either via telnet or the serial console, or you can
tell it to use TFTP to download a config file when it boots.
If you're trying to talk to it using the serial console, it should
default to 9600 baud, 8N1, unless someone has changed it. However, the
pinout of the RJ45 console port is unique. There's no standard for
such things: Cisco, Sun, Xylogics (Annex), Newbridge, and several
others, all used different pinouts. In particular, a Cisco or Sun
cable will not work on an Annex. See the second link below for pinout
and other info.
> I think you'll need the annex software to talk to it and configure it
> over ethernet. I'd think that would be reasonably easy to fine
(heh).
You can download a tar file of the Annex software. There is a
proprietary utility called 'na' which is worth compiling; it allows you
to set the config fairly easily (you can read the existing config to a
file, modify the file, and write it back). The other often-quoted
proprietart thing is 'erpcd', which can be used for booting,
downloading config at boot, etc, but you only really need it if you
want to use Xylogics' extended authentication methods. Otherwise
standard Unix things work fine (don't waste your time with Windows).
Do be aware that different versions of the Annex terminal servers need
different boot code, so don't try to load the wrong one!
http://www25.nortelnetworks.com/library/rannex/relnotes/R10.1A-Release_Note…http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/annex/http://lost-contact.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/project/afs32/andrew/netdev/sun…
Google might find you more.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hi All,
Free to a good home: DEC VR150 monochrome monitor with single
composite video input. Used with VS3100's and works fine.
Contact me off-list if interested!
Fred
--
Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
Visit the VAXlab Project at http://VAXlab.pdp11.nl/
Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/
Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Mountain View, CA, USA
Hi,
I've saved two annexes from going into the 'dead machine' skip but
haven't managed to talk to either of them yet. I'm planning to use them
to give me console access to the two DEC workstation clusters that I'm
building as a student research distributed systems test bed.
I saw some mail on an Annex 3 but there is no 'Test' button on an Annex
2 - just a Normal/Diag switch and a reset button.
I've tried powering on with the switch in diag and normal and terminal
connected at 9600,4800,2400 and 1200 (all N-8-1) but, so far, no joy.
Does anyone have any information on this model?
Thanks,
Nick.
--
-- Nick Falkner
-- PhD Student
-- Distributed and High Performance Computing Group
-- The University of Adelaide
I have a Diablo 620 daisy-wheel impact printer available to anyone
who would like it.
This printer was carefully restored by the folks at Printerworks in
Hayward, California in 1988 and was lightly used for about a year
before being put in storage. It looks to be in excellent shape.
It has its matching cable which can be configured as a serial RS-232
or parallel Centronics interface. It is capable of proportional
spacing and uses a film ribbon for a nice letter quality impression.
Unfortunately, I do not have software drivers for it, so you'd need
to do some research. (Many word processing programs of the era
included appropriate Diablo drivers.)
I have a number of different font daisy wheels around here somewhere
and should be able to find them to go with the printer.
I am located close to Boston and would much prefer having it picked
up than trying to properly pack it for shipping. However, I do have
plenty of bubble wrap and might be able to find a big enough box
to send it via UPS if someone wants to pay for the shipping.
Please email me if your are interested.
Regards,
Will
