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> From: John R. Keys Jr.
> Reply To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:54 PM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re-finding more items as I open boxes
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> Found the following while unpacking in the warehouse:
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> Took some other goodies home to play with like the 20th Annv. MAC,...
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20th Anniversary Mac? You booger... I may have to grab it when
you're not looking.
;-)
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Well, the Univac III is back: UNIVAC III Computer (In Storage since 1975),
eBay auction Item # 2733726990. This time the starting price is $7,500 and the
buy-it-now is $11,000.
The URL is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2733726990&category=1247
OK, somebody, jump right on it! :-)
(Not me, I'm into LITTLE computers like PDP-11's and VAXen, with an occasional
side dish of 6502 or 8085)
Stuart Johnson
Certainly, there are a lot of logic analyzsers (or
analysers, if you are English) floating around. I was
told by a guy who specializes in "refurbished" (i.e.
dusted off) test equipment that this is because a lot
of it is gov't surplus where they just grab the unit.
He also mentioned that a lot of university surplus has
partially blown pods because of carelessness - due to
the nature of what they do, not much protection on the
inputs.
I have a Tek 1230 which I was lucky enough to get some
pods with. I had another one w/o pods and GOOD LUCK on
getting schematics, etc on this stuff - it's a "black
art" proprietary sort of thing.
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Just got back from Radio Shack. I bought a fast blowing 250v 2 amp fuse
and installed on in the laserdisc player. Unfortunetly, it blows just
as fast as the .75amp fuse. So.... that means I have a dead short
somewhere, right? How do I go about checking that?
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
>it's a museum!!! Emulate hardware for display?
I agree, I?m running two 2883s on Access under simulation. I run a single
7900 on the TSB E version, and a single 2883 on the F version.
The largest real Access system I ever owned/ran had 1 7920 and 3 7900s. What
is that, about 47MB. So two 2883s at about 25 MB each would just over the
largest real system I ever ran.
If you want real drives, the most rugged of them was the 7900, IMHO. The
7920 was fine, but not as tough as the 7900. The 7905 was the one that
seemed to me to crash for no reason at all. I always held my breath when I
spun up one of those. It seemed as though every time I got one for my
inventory I would have one fail on a customer?s site. So I cursed that drive
so much that I would never even try to run one on my systems.
BTW
Jay, Al,
I have a set of 2100 Access micro-code. My brother has offered to take a
shot at making copies of the ROMs. He did it once before for me in the early
to mid 80s. Perhaps if he can make 2 copy sets, we could send one set to Al
to be read and archived, and when he?s done have him forward them to Jay to
test the copies in real hardware.
Hey guys...
I have a line on a Convex machine. The current owner is a guy
who attends Govt. auctions and buys bulk, then scraps out stuff for
gold/parts/etc... He calls me when he finds anything interesting, so...
He says this is a Convex SPP3. (it's _heavy_... around 400 Lbs.) I
haven't seen it yet, so I don't know anything more right now.
Unfortunately,
I have no knowledge of Convex stuff, and a web search turned up some
Convex SPP stuff, but not much, and _nothing_ on an "SPP3". Can anyone
enlighten me further? (Yep, I know it's an SMP architecture of some sort,
but
little more than that).
A couple of questions...
Is this machine historically significant? (I.e. worth saving?)
Does anyone know of a source for documentation? (I've done a prelim.
web/newsgroup
search, but haven't turned anything up)
Does anyone have (or know where I can find) a copy of an OS for it
(apparently
it's a unix variant. He told me that the disks were missing... not unusual
for an auction item)
400 lbs is a bit large for me, but if there is a remote chance I can bring
this
critter back to life (and it's worth saving) it's probably worth the effort.
I'll going to
try to take a look at it and try to get some sort of model#/ident. Anything
I should
be looking out for or wary of?
-al-
-acorda(a)1bigred.com
I wonder how long it will be before some fool donates a PDP or some
other piece of kit we hold near and dear to our hearts, to these miscreants.
Sure, it's amusing when it's a 286 being pipe-bombed, but probably not
so much fun (for me, anyway) when they get their hands on an Amiga or a Sol.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...
http://www.letsblowitup.com/default.shtml
Hiya,
has anyone got a early copy of the SCSI spec which just covers SCSI 1
(i.e. 8bit bus, 5Mb/s transfers only)?
I want to see if I can get the parallel port on a modern PC hooked up to
one of the old SCSI/ST506 bridge boards that I have, but given that I
only have 12 data out lines to play with and 5 data in (13 in if I
assume a bidirectional port) things are pretty tight and I obviously
need to do some loading of stuff into external registers.
I've got some reasonable info on the SCSI protocol, but having a better
idea of which signals do what (and at what time) would be useful.
All the docs out on the web seem to be for the latest SCSI revision
though (and therefore contain a lot of info that I don't need).
Furthermore I only really need the low-level protocol now;
software-driven higher level command structure can wait for a few days!
cheers
Jules
Hi all,
My HP 1651B logic analyzer arrived this morning, sans probes. The seller
says he "thought they were in the pouch on top, where the bootdisk is" and
that he "didn't have any left in stock anyway".
Rather typically, all that was in there was a single 40-pin woven cable (HP
part number 01650-61607) and the bootdisk. Murphy's Law at work.
So... Does anyone have spares of any of the following Hewlett-Packard or
Agilent parts in their collection that they'd be willing to part with?
01650-61607 Woven cable, IDC40 to IDC40 (I need 1x of these)
01650-61608 Probe, IDC40 to flying-lead (I need 2x of these)
NOTE: the probe module should also include grabber probes.
There doesn't seem to be anything even remotely close to this on Ebay at the
moment, well, at least there's nothing that's available to the UK. Plenty of
probe kits available USA-only though...
Thanks.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Memory is a thing we forget with.
