A good friend of mine, Jason, has been stripping DEC's in San Francisco
- he has the following stuff left for anyone who is interested - here is
his message below .
Please contact thorpej<put_the_at_thing_here>shagadelic.org
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Free DEC parts available for pick-up in San Francisco. This stuff is
small, so I will also ship it if you are willing to pay packing and
shipping costs.
No international shipping, please. Will also consider delivery to
locations in the South Bay or Peninsula (I work in Cupertino).
I need to get this stuff out of my attic, and will send it to a raw
materials recycler if no one wants it.
- LK201 keyboard
- LK201-AA keyboard
- LK401-AA keyboard
- PMAZC-AA TURBOchannel dual-scsi
=> This is quite a score! It would be nice for a DECstation owner to
snag it and verify that it works with NetBSD/pmax!
- PMAG-B TURBOchannel frame buffer
- DEFTA-FA TURBOchannel FDDI interface
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Kevin Parker
Web Services Consultant
WorkCover Corporation
p: 08 8233 2548
m: 0418 806 166
e: kparker at workcover.com
w: www.workcover.com
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At 12:00 -0500 6/8/05, Bill Dawson wrote (quoted from a website):
>"With the spacecraft now silent, we cannot expect future data,
>so we must look to the past. In fact, there are hundreds of
>tapes containing data taken before 1987, when the spacecraft
>were between 10 and 40 AU from the Sun. This data from the time
>the Pioneers were still in the midst of this planetary realm
>could be crucial to solving the anomaly.
We can expect future data. The New Horizons
mission should launch in January 2006 and zip by
pluto in July 2015 if all goes well. Of course,
it's not a JPL mission, but the data should be
equally relevant.
Nevertheless, considering the cost/bit of the
Pioneer data, if there is any chance of
recovering it, serious effort should be made to
do so.
FWIW, a paper describing the anomalous acceleration is at
PHYSICAL REVIEW D, VOLUME 65, 082004
Study of the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10
and 11 John D. Anderson,1,* Philip A. Laing,2,?
Eunice L. Lau,1,? Anthony S. Liu,3,? Michael
Martin Nieto,4,i
and Slava G. Turyshev1,?
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109
and I have a .pdf copy of that paper, if anyone
is interested (unless, of course, anyone from
Physical Review D asks me not to pass it on).
--
- Mark
210-522-6025, temporary cell 240-375-2995
Hi. I'm looking for a PROM image for a Sun 4/260. If you can help,
please email me directly, since I don't subscribe to the list. Thanks,
--
Matt Fredette
Hi all,
just to give the current state of affairs:
I decided to go after those cables I had missed anyway, and made a couple
phone calls and mails to the people responsible for recycling. Indicating
that "there has been a mistake at the computing center" brought me in
contact with the internal recycling department, where I got an appointment
for yesterday morning to come sort through the stuff, which was still there.
To get it short: I went, and finally got two HP PSI -> X.21 cables, 5 m
each. Issue solved. Now to learn something about X.21, and/or communications
standards in general... Any good sources Google won't turn up likely?
Additionally, I got four original HP standard serial cables (SubD-9f -
SubD25-m) and an Exabyte streamer in an external SCSI enclosure, which even
still had a cartridge inside. Even more to learn about...
Yours sincerely,
--
Arno Kletzander
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>
>Subject: Re: [SPAM] - Re: Simulated disk drive for RT-11? - Sending mail serverfound on relays.ordb.org
> From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinexgs2 at compsys.to>
> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:05:18 -0400
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
> >Allison wrote:
>
>>>Jerome Fine replies:
>>>That would explain the situation since no one else seems
>>>to have ever seen a pure Q22 backplane for a BA23.
>>>
>>It's possible, I've done it and it fits well. The Q22
>>18slot (M9275) is a nice backplane for non-PMI based
>>systems.
>>
>Jerome Fine replies:
>
>If you want to add one more backplane to your
>list, I used a 2 * 22 slot Qbus Q22 bit backplane
>when I did some Y2K bug fixes for some application
>programs. Specifically, this was a 22 slot backplane
>with ONLY dual slots, obviously all AB. The last slot
>had extra room to allow for a board of about 2" that
>held a small SCSI hard drive of about 100 MBytes.
>The 3rd last slot (and the 2nd last which it overlapped)
>help a 3 1/2" floppy or an RX23. There was a CQD 220/TM
>with special ROMs which supported the RX23 as a standard
>device with removable media. By the way, the power
>supply was not part of the box holding the backplane -
>they (power supply and backplane) were connected by a
>short 3 foot cable. I think that the ONLY DEC board
>was the M8192-YB CPU.
I've seen one of them, third party nonDEC. The 12 slot is fine
as a 11/23 board set and a meg of ram with RQDX3 it can hold
everything needed except power.
>As for one more backplane, I presume that you have the
>4 * 4 slot (4 quad slots) for the VT103 which were sold
>with 18 bits, but could be upgraded in the field to 22
>bits. At one point, I heard that someone made the first
>2 slots AB / CD and installed a uVAX-II. That was beyond
>my ability, I only used an M8190-BB and a 4 MByte memory
>board with a CDQ 220/TM and a DHQ11.
I have two. One modded for Q22 and the other Q22/ 2slotsCD.
That was a had discussed internally at DEC. There were a
few made.
>Those days fooling with the hardware were fun, but now
>that there are emulators that can run about 100 times
>the speed of a PDP-11/73, for an RT-11 software addict
>like myself, the hardware has become much less important.
Doesn't work for me. Sims are useful but the fastest PC I have
is a 1g celeron. They aren't that fast and often a lot less
reliable as the OS supporting them can be cranky.
I still have two xerox paper boxes full of Qbus cards, hardware
is easy.
Allison
Hi if you 5.25 or 3.5's try this man,
Computer News 80
PO Box 50127
Casper, Wyoming 82605-0127 (compnews at trib.com)
he should have some.
Al DePermentier
Ah yes, good memories!
At the Technical High School in Heerlen (very southern part of Holland)
our computer class program tasks were written in BEATHE.
I can't remember what the B and E stand for, but the "ATHE" stand for
Algol(60) Technical High school Eindhoven.
The school in Heerlen used at that time (1975 era) IBM 027's (?) to
enter the program on punch *card*. We always had a fight for the few
desks that had a punch that also *printed* the line of Algol on the
top of the punch card. You learned to want to enter your work on such
a desk after your deck of cards had once slipped out of your hands and
fell on the ground ...
You turned in the deck of cards, and one or two days later you got
the print out on green bar paper. In the beginning your program hadn't
even run because the compiler found a missing ";" Get the correct card,
remove it from the deck and put in the corrected one. Submit the deck
again, and before you knew a week had passed. Turning in the deck more
than 5 times would seldom produce a good score, so I guess I learned at
that time to be precise.
- Henk, PA8PDP.
>>>>> "woodelf" == woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
woodelf> But remember too you really had only two sized variables,
woodelf> ints and floating point. I think the big problem with algol
woodelf> you never were ment to compile it, just write programns in
woodelf> it.
> Nonsense. It certainly wasn't designed as a paper language, and it
> wasn't used as a paper language. The first compiler (MC Amsterdam, by
> Dijkstra) was a real compiler, and at the T.U. Eindhove the "THE"
> operating system used Algol exclusively, so all the programming for
> many years at that major university was done in Algol 60.
>
> paul
At 11:21 -0500 6/8/05, bv wrote:
>With the "security" they have implemented in the US these days, I would
>strongly advise against taking any unique device on a flight there.
>There are too many stories of devices being tampered with, dismantled
>and ruined by trained monkeys.
For all of our critical space-flight hardware (power supplies, plasma
instruments, etc.), we put them in well-padded containers and carry
them onboard. We draft letters to airport security (and carry
duplicates thereof) quoting the NASA contract number and giving
contact phone numbers at the SwRI office. In many cases, neither
X-rays nor opening the contamination bag is a good idea. With the
appropriate groundwork, we have not had any problems (knock on wood)
so far.
So it is *possible* to carry electronics on planes, under some circumstances.
The clever instrument teams make sure their containers don't fit in
coach seats, so they have no choice but to go First Class. :-)
--
- Mark
210-522-6025, temporary cell 240-375-2995
>Ah... no. You don't want her cookin'... believe me. ;^>
>I'm the cook of the family; altho I have no formal training. I am, however,
>waiting for my midlife crisis which I feel is coming on very soon, when I
>quit computers altogether (well, the Wintel crap anyway) and go to culinary
>school... ;-)
Ahh... I have been pondering the exact same scenario for a few months
now. I've grown to hate computers, and prefer to be cooking, and have
been considering quitting and finding a new career (although I don't
think I could cook for a living... I think I enjoy it because its an
escape activity.... I think I'd rather return to what I went to school
for and try to get back into theater or television... maybe start doing
voice overs professionally or something).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>> I'm looking for a copy of Compaq DOS 3.31 rev. G
>> (circa 1990) Anybody has this at hand ??
> Just curious: Why do you need this specific
revision?
Because I think it's the latest one, and probably they
fixed lot of errors :-)
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