test-drb September 2004

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by brad＠heeltoe.com

Hi all I could use a short Unibus connector cable. I have one which is about 20' long and I have one which is about 2.5' long. I need one about 5' long. I think that's a BC11Y-05. Basically to go between two unibus boxes sitting next to each other on the floor :-) Anyone have one they don't need? (this is the wide "white" cable with a dual-height connector on each end) -brad

20 years, 3 months

Real PDP11 model question

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>Were there any PDP11's as small as the DECmate III? Not really. The smallest box (available from DEC) into which one could place a PDP-11 was the Shoebox (SB-11, or BA11-VA, if I remember correctly) which was about a foot wide and about 9 inches deep. It had a 4slot backplane (4x2, Q, AB side only) and a power supply. This was enough to put together a CPU (11/2, KDF11-A, KDJ11-A), memory, serial lines, bootstrap (MXV11-B), network card (DEQNA or DELQA) and a disk interface (RQDX3). It was not meant for housing the actual disk.. that would have to be another box. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL,ST| email: mbg at world.std.com | | Member of Technical Staff | megan at savaje.com | | SavaJe Technologies, Inc. | (s/ at /@/) | | 100 Apollo Drive | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Chelmsford, MA 01824 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (978) 256 6521 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

20 years, 3 months

Teledisk

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I very much doubt teledisk would work through USB. In order to work, it has to be very personal with the controller. Dwight >From: "jim stephens" <jwstephens(a)msm.umr.edu> > >teledisk is quite cranky about running on processors that are too fast >if you get the wrong version and the wrong system together. > >also have you run it on anything that is USB attached? I'd be interested >if any of the trick stuff to adjust track sizes, and other copy protect >override features work on the USB version. > >jim > > >

20 years, 3 months

Guess what the hurricane(s) left behind!

by aek＠spies.com

You dirty dog! I didn't know that you had a copy! Can I get a copy of it and the docs for it? -- the docs should be on bitsavers/intel I offered you DMK (or raw) images a year ago -- X-Sender: rigdonj(a)pop-server.cfl.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (16) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:24:55 To: Al Kossow <aek(a)spies.com> From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> Subject: Re: Good News, Bad news In-Reply-To: <200308021514.h72FEdx6005359(a)spies.com> References: <3.0.6.16.20030802082807.515f2da4(a)pop-server.cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SpamBouncer: 1.6 beta (7/05/02) X-SBClass: OK X-Folder: Bulk Status: RO At 08:14 AM 8/2/03 -0700, you wrote: >they should be on sourceforge. >http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmklib/ > Thanks. Have you tried to use Teledisk on the iRMX disks? If not can you try it on one of them. If it works can you send or post the disk images where I can get them?

20 years, 3 months

Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov> > >> Now if you were to say that the serial port is disappearing ... well >> then I would be concerned. > >The serial port _is_ disappearing. I am concerned. I have a number of Hi I'm starting to have what I call linkage machines. I have a lap top with a CDROM drive that I tranfer stuff to a desk top with CROM and floppies. From the floppy, I go to an older lap top to send serial to my older machines. I expect someday I'll have a DVD writer to talk to a machine that only uses DVD's. It is the weakest chain linking but what else to do? Dwight

20 years, 3 months

Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Gee, neither of the last two new computers that I purchased had >floppy drives (and one of those is about 5 years old now). I'd say >this is old news (and the PC world finally catching up with the rest >of us). I can't even remember the last time I used a floppy drive. Heck the last two PC's I bought not only didn't have floppy drives, but completely lacked floppy controllers, so I couldn't add one if I even wanted to. They also lacked on board Serial and Parallel. Everything was expected to be done via USB. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 3 months

kaypro 10 for sell!!!

by josh＠scarecrow.com

I know this post is pretty old - still have one (or a Kaypro 2)? Looking for it - doesn't matter if it runs or not . Working on a random nostalgia project. Cheers, Josh.

20 years, 3 months

Intellec power cord

by JMeyer101＠aol.com

I received both power cords on Friday. I ended up buying both cords Jack Rubin suggested (only about $6.00 each and I didn't want to waste time waiting if the first wasn't correct). I checked the polarity of both cords and the cord # 17952-B1-8 matches the polarity on the Intellec 4. Big thanks to Jack for pointing me to Newark to pick up the cord! And thanks to all others who gave guidance for how to verify the correct polarity. Thanks, Jeff

20 years, 3 months

C4P Floppy

by JMeyer101＠aol.com

Hello All, I am considering modifying an old 5 1/4 or even 3 1/2 drive to work with the 4P but have never done one before so I'm a bit weary (I've been given some coaching from a couple guys from CCTech on how to do the conversion and they say it's not a big deal. Thanks guys). However, I'd rather have an original to complete my system. I have the opportunity to pick one up from ebay at about $400, but that's a bit over my budget. Anyone know of a source where I can pick up a drive? Thanks, Jeff

20 years, 3 months

Please Help Identify Mystery ISA Card

by gsutton9503＠wavecable.com

I just recently purchased an old Toshiba T5200/100 Laptop at a thrift store. One of the cards installed in it was an old 8-bit device of some sort. First of all, here are pictures of the card in question. http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Geekworks/GW-Mystery-Card-0.JPG http://webpages.charter.net/scarletdown/Geekworks/GW-Mystery-Card-1.JPG Can anyone here help me identify what this card is, and more importantly, where I can download MS-DOS drivers for it? It is from Maynard Electronics, 1988. The large socketed chip says: WD33C93A-PL 00-08 9031 069660200102 PROTO Other markings state: Type II Controller, and Rev. -5 The FCC ID number is D8I6I2 60201. Just taking a wild guess, I suspect that this is some sort of SCSI Controller. However, I could not find it in the TH99 archives. The only match for Maynard on Driverguide is for a 16-Bit SCSI driver from Seagate. Also, I could not find any info on Seagate's site either. So, anyone here have any info on this card and possibly know where to get drivers for it?

20 years, 3 months

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test-drb September 2004