I recently came into possession of a relatively large pile of on-topic
stuff, and have some of my own that I want to get rid of. I haven't
completed inventorying it all yet - there are a half-dozen boxes I've
yet to look through - but it's slow enough going that I'm sending
around a list of what I have inventoried in case anyone is interested.
When I get the rest gone through I'll post another list.
This stuff is all "cover shipping from Montreal and it's yours". That
includes free if picked up - drop me a line to arrange such.
Feel free to ask questions if you want more information about anything.
Except as noted, everything is untested; some items I can test if
desired - again, drop me a line.
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The list, mostly in no particular order:
TI Programmable 57 pocket calculator, including wall-wart, carrying
case, and "Making Tracks Into Programming" manual. Battery pack
included but will not charge enough to power the calculator even for
seconds. Red filter over display has come loose but is present.
Worked as of a month or two ago, when powered with wall-wart. Some
keys occasionally act a little flaky. I bought this new on 1981-01-26
and still have the receipt.
Numerous (ca. 20-30) cables, 25-pair POTS-quality wire. One end has
Centronics-50 connector; the other is loose wire ends. Length is some
small numbers of metres - about right for cross-connect within a wiring
closet.
A rackmount panel with 64 eight-conductor RJ45-style jacks on the
front; on the back, each four jacks are wired to a Centronics-50
connector. A C-50 gender-bender is attached to each. Note these are
NOT Cat-V, probably not even Cat-III - they look intended for POTS use,
or perhaps serial lines, to my eye.
A rackmount power switch/filter of some kind. It has a mains cable
(which is cut off near the box), a space where a switch has been
removed, and five outlets (two "filtered" and three "unfiltered") of
the sort you find on some computers to feed switched power to another
box - the same connector you find on the computer end of most computer
mains cords. The metal box has a corner twisted and torn; it either
suffered a peculiar accident or was attacked by someone who wanted to
get into it but couldn't be bothered to remove the screws.
Inkjet cartridge refilling equipment (syringe, hole-maker, small bottle
of black ink).
Old Sun-2-era external disk enclosure, ca. 1'x1'x4". Two DD50F SCSI
connectors and mains power connector. Contains power supply,
Micropolis 1325 drive, adapter board between SCSI and the drive, and
internal cabling to hook it all together.
EMP "Manual Mini Modem MM-102". Not acoustic-coupler, but almost that
old; has answer/off/originate switch, power-on and carrier-detect
lights. Includes wall-wart thought, but not tested, to go with it.
Captive telco cable ending in RJ11 plug; also has RJ11 "TELE JACK"
connector and DB25F connector for host.
Ten Cabletron TPT-2 AUI-to-UTP transceivers. These predate the current
10baseT standard for link test; they do not reliably detect link when
connected to (some) modern equipment, but at least two of them work
fine when connected to one another with a crossed cable. There
presumably exists 10baseT equipment they work with; as far as I know I
have none.
Hayes Smartmodem 2400. In original package, including styrofoam
packing, box, manuals, business-reply cards, wall-wart. Box has some
cosmetic damage - scuffs, small rips - but is basically intact; the
styrofoam has basically no damage and the modem's cosmetic condition
verges on pristine.
Packard Bell PB2400PLUS modem. Includes wall-wart, manuals, 5?" floppy
still in sealed envelope, styrofoam packing, but not surrounding box.
S-100 (I think) board from Cromemco, labeled "8K BYTESAVER" with eight
24-pin DIP sockets. It includes a switch labeled "PROGRAM POWER" and a
7812, so I assume it is a PROM reader/burner.
S-100 (I think) board. It looks like a memory board; it is marked
"S100" and "10032-B" and includes a 4x16 array of 18-pin DIP sockets,
all empty. It has 32 ceramic disc capacitors, presumably for
power-supply decoupling; two are physically damaged to the point where
I would not trust them to remain unshorted without testing.
SPARCstation 2 mainboard. The CPU has been replaced with a Weitek
POWER?P. No RAM. This board does not work; my best guess is that the
fault is in the CPU.
An ISA card from "ARCHIVE CORPORATION". Back-panel interface is a
DB25F, with a 50-pin header just behind this. Marked "ASSY 80530-151"
and "REV A"; the "151" and "REV A" are stamped, the "ASSY" and "80530-"
are silkscreened.
A MITEL SMART-1, whatever that is. It's marked "PAV Chaining" and
"Positive Account Code Verification With Chaining". The interfaces
are: a peculiar 3-pin power connector; a jack which is physically
RJ45-compatible; and a DB25F. I suspect the jack is actually for POTS,
since the device is marked with Canadian telco regulatory foo. The
matching power supply is included.
Two cables from Centronics-50 to DA15, with handwritten tags saying
things like "PBX<->NAV" "PRI #1".
An octopus cable from a DE9F to three DB25Ms. The DB25Ms have only
some pins present: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 20 on two connectors, the third the
same except lacking pin 6.
Six DE9M-to-DE9F video cables from the Sun-3 days, when they used
monochrome monitors with DE9 connectors.
Three co-ax cables with BNC connectors on the ends; one marked with
masking tape and marker G, one B, and the third (apparently identical
otherwise) unmarked.
Eight NeXT video cables - the 19-pin D-shell kind. Seven are about a
foot and a half long, the other more like nine or ten feet.
A PC case. Contains practically nothing - internal wiring for the
front-panel switches is about it. No power supply or mobo.
Two Sun-3/60 cases, with power supplies but no machines or plastic
cosmetic covers - just the metal boxes with the power supplies.
Various books:
Introduction to the AMIGA 2000
AMIGA BASIC
The AmigaDOS Manual (two copies)
AMIGA Hardware Reference Manual
AMIGA ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Exec
AMIGA ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries and Devices
AMIGA Intuition Referenec Manual
Inside AegisDRAW
Amiga Programmer's HANDBOOK
INSIDE AMIGA Graphics
COMPUTE!'s AMIGA PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE
A?TALK III
Inside the Amiga
Programmer's Guide to the Amiga
Advanced Amiga BASIC
Amiga 3D Graphic Programming in BASIC
Secrets of the COMMODORE 64
Commodore 64/128 Assembly Language Programming
35 AMAZING GAMES For Your Commodore 64
LEARN TO PROGRAM THE COMMODORE 64 ALL BY YOURSELF! (course notes)
COMMODORE 64 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE GUIDE
MAPPING THE Commodore 64
C64 user's manual
MASTERING SIGHT AND SOUND ON THE COMMODORE 64
COMMODORE 64 USER'S GUIDE
COMMODORE 64 GRAPHICS
Your Commodore 64
TROUBLESHOOTING & REPAIRING YOUR COMMODORE 64
A whole boxful of 3?" floppies, I think for an Amiga. (This is a
largeish box, maybe 1'x1?'x6", not just a floppy-storage box.)
Sun books and media:
Solaris 2.2 System Configuration and Installation Guide
Solaris 2.0 System Configuration and Installation Guide
Solaris 2.4 Introduction
Solaris 2.4 System AnswerBook CD (package still sealed)
WABI 2.0 for Solaris 2 CD (package still sealed)
Solaris Quick Start Guide (801-6612-10; Rev A, August 1994)
Solaris 2.4: Latest News (still sealed in shrinkwrap)
Software and AnswerBook Packages Administration Guide (Solaris 2.4)
SPARC: Installing Solaris Software (Solaris 2.4)
SPARCompiler C User's Guide (Version 3.0.1 for Solaris)
A few light-cardboard four-colour-glossies.
A three-ring binder marked "SunOS 4.1 Release & Install"; it appears to
contain exactly that. The plastic piece that tries to keep the pages
from ripping is split across, but both pieces are present.
A package marked "NetWorker for Solaris 4.0.2" and
"Online: DiskSuite 3.0". It contains a CD jewel case marked
"NetWorker for Solaris", still shrinkwrapped; stapled pages marked
"Networker for Solaris Single Server 4.0.2 Release Notes"; stapled
pages marked "Online: DiskSuite 3.0 Release Notes"; and an envelope
marked "NetWorker for Solaris Enabler Certificate Enclosed", seal
still intact.
"Binary Code License" - EULA for something from Sun. Doesn't say what
it applies to specifically, just "the accompanying software". It may
or may not have originally accompanied one or more of the CDs above.
Sun SPARCstation 1 doc box, containing
SPARCstation 1 Installation Guide
SPARCstation 1 Sun System User's Guide
Computers of the C=64/TI99 era (post-8008 pre-IBMPC), and related
stuff. When something is "supposedly" for use with a given machine,
this means that it was so marked by the person I got this stuff from,
but I haven't tried it myself.
Interact
Integrated keyboard and cassette tape
Apparently designed for TV output; captive output co-ax cable
Captive power cable to wall-wart (North American plug)
Connectors: DB25F and two DE9Ms
Back has sticker saying
INTERACT ELECTRONICS, INC.
MODEL NO. ONE
FCC TYPE APPROVAL NUMBER, TV-579
MANUFACTURER, INTERACT ELECTRONICS, INC.
SERIAL NUMBER, 0 1 4 5 7 5
VALID ONLY WHEN OPERATED PURSUANT TO
F.C.C. RULES, PART 15
Fragments apparently constituting most of another Interact (keyboard,
cassette mechanism, wall-wart, main board with two empty IC sockets,
one probably the CPU).
Amiga 2000. Includes keyboard and mouse but no display. (See also
Amiga stuff above.) Includes some six to eight inches of paper which
appears to be printouts and doc photocopies for Atari stuff.
TI-99/4A ("TEXAS INSTRUMENTS HOME COMPUTER"). In what appears to be
the original packaging, with power supply and TV video modulator.
Commodore 64, in what appears to be the original box, with power
supply, TV video monulator, a couple of other cables, a spare
keyboard(!), and an antistatic bag which supposedly contains chips
pulled from another C64.
Laser 128, in the original box (which claims it's Apple IIe/IIc
compatible but has "everything" already built in).
A Commodore "Single Drive Floppy Disk", model 1541 - an external 5?"
floppy drive, supposedly for the C64.
Nine joysticks, supposedly for the C64.
A "64modem", presumably a modem for the C64. (Connectors and markings
are consistent with that theory.)
A "B.I. printer interface", supposedly for the C64.
A VOLKS 6480 modem (1200/300 BPS, autodial/autoanswer, for the C64 and
C128, if the box is to be believed).
An obviously homebrew (and rather carelessly built) reset button
attachment, supposedly for the C64.
A "Forth 64" cartridge, from "handic software ab", presumably (and
supposedly) for the C64.
A C64 three-in-one card. This has three card-edge connectors and a
three-position switch, and a single card edge to plug into a C64.
Presumably it's so you can leave three things physically connected all
the time and switch which one is logically connected with the switch,
instead of constantly swapping modules. Bears the name "NAVARONE".
A C64 four-in-one card. This has four card-edge connectors and a
single card edge to plug into a C64. There is also an enable switch
next to each socket, a reset button, and a fuse. Bears the name
APROTEK. Comes with a slip of paper which is akin to a user's manual
and a piece of ribbon cable with a card edge on one end and a card-edge
connector on the other. The conductor count and inter-connector
spacing are different from those on the gadget itself.
Two cables, about five feet long, with a peculiar DIN-shell
four-conductor connector on one end and bare wire ends on the other.
Pin placement on the connector is identical on both cables.
Something in a box which is hand-marked "Pow. Sup. C64 Repairable".
The device is marked "INPUT 117VAC 60HZ" "OUTPUT 5VDC-1.8A 9VAC9VA".
Included is a sheet with something that could reasonably be a schematic
for such a power supply, though I haven't opened the device to check
whether it matches the schematic. It has two cords, one to a North
American mains plug, the other to a 7-pin DIN-shell connector.
A "PROTECTO BIG BLUE PRINTER INTERFACE", in a box hand-marked with the
Commodore name.
A good deal of paper, including such things as documentation in French
for NetNorth/BITNET and a number of pages torn from magazines
containing computer-related articles, and documentation for a number of
games. It wouldn't surprise me to find a floppy or two amid them; I
didn't go through them in detail.
HP 2109E cpu (21MX/E), chassis, power supply, front panel
HP 2113E cpu (21MX/E), chassis, power supply, front panel
HP 2108M cpu (21MX/M), chassis, power supply, front panel
The 2109 and 2113 are available immediately. The 2108 I will get rid of
eventually, just not sure if I'll get rid of it now or in about 6 months.
All are untested and dirty. The 2109 and 2113 will clean up nicely. The 2108
is a hard luck case and a major restoration job. The 2109 and 2113 have cpu
keys, but someone glued them in or they are stuck. The key works fine, you
just can't take the key out. The 2108 has no key. I will test and clean them
first if I get a chance. No I/O or memory cards included. Some memory and/or
I/O cards will probably be available from me at a later date.
I will also have some as yet undetermined quantity of HSFCA memory boards
available (not usable as main memory, just ECC)
Also available - HP 21MX 12979A rackmount I/O expansion unit
Items I'm looking for...
HP 12920/12921/12922 three PCA Multiplexor set
HP 2102E high speed memory controller PCA qty 2
HP 13210A disc interface PCA for spare
HP 12597A 8 bit duplex register boards qty 2
HP 12531C or D HS terminal or Buffered TTY PCA (qty 1 or 2)
HP Blank PROMS for 21MX loader roms
HP Blank PROMS for 21MX microcode roms
DSI 2400 paper tape reader/punch OR...
... RS232 interface board for Facit 4070
Data General 6030/6031 8" floppy drive
Data General Paper Tape reader, don't know the model number, for Nova and
Eclipse
Any spare Data General Nova/Eclipse boards (Nova 3, Eclipse S/130 or S/200),
primarily cpu sets, disk, cassette, memory
Data General 6045 disc drive
DEC H212 8K core memory plane for 8E
DEC M7891-D 128KW for 11/45 (qty 2)
Microdata M1600, M2000, or Reality Royale system
Honeywell DPS-6 system
Jay West
PS - Bob, now that I've been using the 21MX front panel for a while, I gotta
tell ya, I prefer using the 2100 front panel. What's this "store" button
crap? *GRIN*
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Blah! OK, the Indigo doesn't like my old Apple SCSI CDROM drive, even
though the Indy and my Sun Ultra 1 do... luckily I had a spare
quad-speed drive which has a sector-size jumper on the back. (So it
wasn't a bad SCSI cable or a problem with the Indigo's external SCSI
connector as it turns out)
Anyway, I'm just trying to get IRIX 5.3 from CD onto a disk in the
Indigo (one which currently has a mangled copy of 5.3 on it). I've used
the same CD to install 5.3 on the Indy previously - just not tried it
with the Indigo...
If I go view the PROM monitor and select "Install System Software", then
use the CDROM as the source device, it copies the installation program
to disk, says complete, but then dies with:
"Unable to load dksc(0,1,1)unix.IP12: file not found"
I seem to recall the Indy doing the same thing, which I think was a disk
partition problem (as in that case I was installing onto a drive that
had previously been in a PC)
So, I restarted at this time went into the PROM monitor's command
monitor and did:
"boot -f dksc(0,6,8)sashARCS dksc(0,6,7)stand/fx.ARCS"
... which was what I used for the Indy to partition the drive. On the
Indigo it just blows up with:
72912
NESTED EXCEPTION at pc: bfc11d90, first exception at bfc11d90
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Given that the Indigo's an R3K and the
Indy is an R4K, do I need a different boot command to load the relevant
R3K software?
I know this Indigo works - but the release of 5.3 is a copied version
that came with the Indy... maybe it's missing something I need, or maybe
SGI did different 5.3 releases for R3K and R4K machines?
cheers
Jules
I'm aware of the following up for disposal (I think they're off to
landfill at the end of next week by the sounds of it) in Cambridge, if
anyone's interested:
17 HP Xterminals
5 HP 700RX (Xterminals)
3 Vaxstation 3100
4 Large SCSI boxes
4 Medium SCSI boxes
6 BBC Bs
16 BBC type monitors
4 NCD Xterms
1 HP Entria Xterm
8 Dot matrix printers
1 DEC 3000
1 Sparc 4
1 Extremely spiky thing
1 Olivetti drive of some description
1 huge monitor box of cables
Lots of random software
I should be meeting with the chap tomorrow as I'm picking up some other
stuff from him, so hopefully I can look over everything. I *may* grab
the software and cable boxes just so I can take a proper inventory,
although I have no desire to hang onto anything other than a SCSI cable
or two.
Note 1: this is the *UK* Cambridge (I always put that in the subject,
and people always miss it :-)
Note 2: various people know about this stuff, so it's a case of first
come, first served. I can put you in touch with the chap if there is
anything you want from the list.
ps. I too am curious to know what the spiky thing is!
cheers
Jules
On Jul 4, 12:35, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> I need to create a CD with files on for access by an SGI system. Of
> course, the SGI uses a CDROM drive that uses 512 byte blocks. My
desktop
> PC's the only thing with a CD burner in it, which is naturally set to
a
> block size of 2048.
>
> >From the point of view of creating a CD, does this matter? Or is the
> block size issue only to do with transferring data from the CD unit
to
> the host, and iso9660 is the same on both platforms?
No, it doesn't matter. The block size is just a matter of how the data
is transferred between host and drive, and cdrecord or whatever will
write 2048-byte physical blocks no matter what. The drive that
eventually reads the CD back will de-block them as required. It's a
bit like CP/M, if you've come across CP/M's idea of 128-byte logical
sectors mapped onto whatever physical sector size (commonly 256 or 512
bytes for 5.25" floppies) the sytem uses.
But you should be making EFS CDs for IRIX ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I just acquired a number of Arcnet Boot ROMs. I have no idea if these are of any value and/or interest to anyone here, but thought I'd post this information. Please let me know if you have any interest in any or all of these. Specifics are:
"Arcnet, 120A, Netware, Boot ROM, S/N: EG 0021xx - 0029xx, V3.00", I have 9 of these chips.
"Arcnet, 190ST/SBT, Netware, Boot ROM, S/N: EL 0033xx, V3.00", I have 4 of these chips.
"Netware, Arcnet, 120A, Boot PROM, V2.1x", I have only one of these chips.
If you like additional information, like the numbers on the bottom, just let me know.
Thanks for your information and interest.
Bill Machacek
Silly question, I know...
I need to create a CD with files on for access by an SGI system. Of
course, the SGI uses a CDROM drive that uses 512 byte blocks. My desktop
PC's the only thing with a CD burner in it, which is naturally set to a
block size of 2048.
>From the point of view of creating a CD, does this matter? Or is the
block size issue only to do with transferring data from the CD unit to
the host, and iso9660 is the same on both platforms?
It's one of those stupid questions that I really don't know the answer
to - I'm used to either just dealing with CDs on a PC, or using original
vendor media on systems which use 512 blocks (such as Sun and SGI)
I've only got a couple of decent branded blank CDs left in the house, or
I'd just risk trashing one and find out for myself :-)
cheers,
Jules
These are the last of my stock of DEC boards. These boards are in
reasonable shape, but perhaps some capacitors, etc will have to be
replaced to get working. I want $15 each + shipping
4 each: M3105 DHU11-A ASYNC MUX DMA CNTL
1 each: M8750-CB MEMORY
1 each: M8750-CP MEMORY
1 each: M7485-YA M7485 W/ BLSTD RMS 4 LYR UDA50
1 each: M7903 BOARD DATA RK06
1 each + 1 damaged: M7819 8 LN DBL BUF ASYNC EIA DZ1
Thanks Norm
I have some firmware chips in a 21MX/E that I can't seem to identify from my
docs, and some I think I know what they are but not sure.
13307-80036, 13307-80037, 13307-80038 I think these are DMI
5090-0589, 5090-0590, 5090-0591 I think these are FPP
92067-80001, 92067-80002, 92067-80003 I think these are EMA (used by RTE?)
93585-80006, 93585-80007, 93585-80008 No clue, may be proprietary ProVOX?
92084-80004, 92084-80005, 92084-80006 No clue, may be proprietary ProVOX?
92084-80007, 92084-80008, 92084-80009 No clue, may be proprietary ProVOX?
Can anyone help and confirm or deny any of this?
Jay West
I have a lot of manuals I want to scan and am trying to decide upon the
best format. I'd like some opinions on the following scans of a 128-page
Franklin AceWriter manual.
On the low end is a pdf of bitmap images. It's hideous, but only 3.5 MB.
The high end is a 40 MB pdf of jpeg images. This one's easy on the eyes,
but is an awfully large download and I'm wondering if it might not print
as nicely as the bitmap.
In the middle is a pdf of compressed jpegs at 15 MB. This looks good to
my eyes, I just wonder about using compressed jpegs for archiving...
<www.applefritter.com/temp/acewriter_lo.pdf> (3.5 MB)
<www.applefritter.com/temp/acewriter_med.pdf> (15 MB)
<www.applefritter.com/temp/acewriter_hi.pdf> (40 MB)
(Disregard the incorrect ordering of the pages.)
Thoughts? Which of the three would you most want to download?
Tom
Applefritter
www.applefritter.com
