Hi Folks,
I have two Sage MainLAN ISA adapters dating back to
1988. MainLAN was an early local area network system
based, it appears, on some form of serial daisy chain.
I seem to remember having stored away the manuals, and
possibly the disks/drivers for these boards (for DOS,
of course) and would like to know if anybody is
interested in these boards.
If not ... they'll probably become landfill - but I'd
just like to check before I bin a bit of history :-)
Roger
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>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kevin Handy wrote:
>
>> Do you believe future people will be that much stupider than people
>> are today, and that all information about computers will have been
>> totally lost?
>
>I think this assumption needs to be made. It's safer.
>
>> Make the archive useful to us, now. Let people 500 years from now
>> figure it out for themselves.
>
>That's not the definition of an "archive". You're thinking of a library.
>
Hi Sellam
I've been trying to explain the difference between an archive
and distribution of data. So far, they just don't get it.
Dwight
I checked the 1977 IC Master, and the uA3656 is not listed. It does say
that the uA prefix is the Fairchild linear series. In going through the
Fairchild catalogs, I too have been unable to find any references, and
am now curious if the number is correct.
> I have a catalog from 1969 which lists their MOS parts in the 3xxx
> range.
> They didn't make RAM in 1969, will try to dig out an
> early 70s catalog to try to find 3656's (I'm guessing they will be in
> the '72 or '73 ones).
RE: PDP 11/45 light chaser
>>>>> "Gooijen" == Gooijen H <Gooijen> writes:
Gooijen> The drawback of the light chaser program that uses the RESET
Gooijen> instruction is that the heads load and unload of the RX02
Gooijen> drive in my PDP-11/40. That clunck-clunck sound is not
Gooijen> pretty for a longer while ...
> So start up the KW11L clock, point its vector to an RTI, and use a
> WAIT instead of a RESET...
>
> paul
Hmm, I thought that the RESET instruction provides the ~100 ms delay
so that the lights are visible (on the 11/35 they are LEDs anyway)
but this instruction also asserts the RESET/ (BUS INIT-L ?) signal.
That is what makes the RX drive clunk - at least that's what I thought.
- Henk, PA8PDP.
Another rescue from the works scrap pile....
I have an OEM 11/23 PLUS, which is based on a quad height chassis (H9875A?),
with an 11/23+ cpu, two memory cards, and an RLV12 disk controller (there
were a number of other cards, two DEQNA (dual ethernet installation), an OEM
video interface, DLV11, and an OEM system ID card (this places a 4 bit octal
value in a register that can be read via the bus). These cards have all been
removed and replaced with grant cards). The system originally booted via
ethernet, and the RLV12 was only installed for standalone diagnostics, hence
the cut down version.
When the unit is powered up, there is no output to the terminal, and the
processor fault LED's give a code of 14, which is listed as "Scope Loop" -
does anyone know what this signifies?
I have set the boot switches to the factory test settings, with RL02 boot,
and the SLU's are set to 9600. The other jumpers all appear to be correct.
Thanks
Jim.
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>From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>
>
>I have a pair of EAI TR-48 analog computers that I really need to part
>with. These are circa 1960 machines. From Mr. Cowards site:
>
>Operating range: +/- 10 volts DC
>Computing Elements: Up to 58 DC amplifiers
> Up to 115 Coefficient setting potentimeters
>Options: Up to 24 integrators
>
>These are large machines, so if you are located far away from Carmel, NY,
>you would need to call a mover (I could deliver withing a few hundred
>miles with some arm twisting). One machine has the original operating
>desk, plus there are a few extra patchpanels, lotsa cords, modules, and
>other good stuff.
>
>Any interest on this list? If so, I should start digging these out of
>storage.
>
>These are for sale, but I would consider trades of old mainframe or
>minicomputer stuff.
>
>William Donzelli
>aw288 at osfn.org
>
Hi William
It is on the wrong side of the US for me :(
Dwight
> The guy probably went broke in a spectacular way
> (I can't imagine what kind of debt he might have
> gotten into buying such a huge supply of Atari
> carts, and then renting a salt mine to store and
> sell them). Now he doesn't exist, and no one links
> to him or ever really linked to him (maybe if they
> had, he would have gone broke in a less spectacular
> way).
Bzzt. Thank you for playing.
Salt mine with lots of Atari games:
http://www.oshealtd.com/
--
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA
>>> remaindered Atari 2600/5200 cartridges
>> Is that the guy that was housing them in an old salt mine?
>
>Bingo, yes, that triggers my memory. But isn't enough to find
>any references in Google. What does that mean? Is there some
>universe that exists in your and my memory but not in Google's? :-).
The guy probably went broke in a spectacular way (I can't imagine what
kind of debt he might have gotten into buying such a huge supply of Atari
carts, and then renting a salt mine to store and sell them). Now he
doesn't exist, and no one links to him or ever really linked to him
(maybe if they had, he would have gone broke in a less spectacular way).
Since google works on how many people link to a page, he might be the
last link on some odd search combination of 'Atari Salt "Insane sales
ideas"'.
I don't know about your mind, but mine doesn't work based on how many
times something is linked to from something else. Mine works on some
strange as yet to be fully determined system of storing totally useless
tidbits of information while disposing of the important things like what
my wife told me this morning to pick up on the way home (still don't
remember, and she won't tell me, and the fact that I remembered a guy
sold Atari carts out of a salt mine has made her stop telling me anything
for the night... which I have yet to decide if that is really a bad thing
or not).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I could use the collective wisdom of the list.
I have an 11/84 (M8190) with what appears to be a bad configuration
EEPROM. [The symptoms are that at boot the system attempts to boot
and immediately drops into ODT rather than testing memory and the
setup menu. Replacing the EEPROM with a known good one from another
board cures the problem.] I'm trying to learn more about the EEPROM
but haven't had a lot of luck yet. It appears to be a Xicor X2816AP,
24-pin, DIP. This seems to be a 2k x 8bit EEPROM, but I haven't
found out much else yet. I would like to find a replacement for the
EEPROM.
Two questions:
1) Any recommended sources for such parts out there?
2) Any suggestions on how to initialize it? Perhaps just leave it
zeroed? Or copy a known good one?
Thanks,
John
