test-drb October 2006

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OT: GONE! Items looking for new home - DEC PCs, MV3100, BA350, misc SCSI drives and cables (MA, USA)

by jpeterson＠chinalake.com

All gone! Wow, I thought it would take days, not seconds. If I ever need an organ transplant, I am posting here first. Cheers, -Jim

18 years, 2 months

Classic hardware at the bottom of the world (was Re: Anyone have a datasheet for a Datel MX-1606?)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 10/25/06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > I am green with envy, Ethan. Yes I'd freeze my butt off (hey I'm a > Florida boy) but man it'd be worth it to see that place. Our low is typically around -100F to -110F (the record is somewhere around -117F, IIRC) This time of year, -60F to -75F is common. > What cool (non-work-related) hardware do you have down there? I brought plenty of cool non-work-related hardware... my SBC-6120 w/FP-6120 and IOB-6120, a Spare Time GIzmos Embedded Elf w/disk interface, an Elf-2000 w/STG1861, a STG mp3 player, an RB5X robot (INS8073-based), an MC-1N microcontroller (also INS8073-based), several LCD and VFD displays for LCDproc (http://www.lcdproc.org), a "Real Console" 6809 board, a MicroElf, a couple of binary clocks, some Atmel microcontrollers, and a modernish (2002) 6502 SBC. I think that's most of the toys I brought to get through the night. I also have Amiga Forever, simh and klh10 for emulation of various boxes (I used to bring an Amiga down, but now it's just too large to justify). Plenty of toys here. Now I just have to pack them up and take them home. -ethan

18 years, 2 months

11/34 rails sought

by jwest＠ezwind.net

My last PDP11 restoration to do yet is a 11/34 in an H960 cabinet (I'm skipping the /45 for now, jumping over it to maintain sanity and until help strikes me upside the head). I believe the only thing I'm missing to start the /34 project is a set of the "tip up and lock" rails for the /34 cpu itself. Anyone have a set they'd like to trade or sell? I have to get back to classic computing restoration or the basement will continue to decrease in space instead of increase ;) Jay

18 years, 2 months

OT: Items looking for new home - DEC PCs, MV3100, BA350, misc SCSI drives and cables (MA, USA)

by jpeterson＠chinalake.com

OT: not actually classic systems but interesting and/or useful as DEC hardware I am working my way through storage. Several DEC PCs need a new home as well as an MV3100-80, several DEC SCSI drives and cables, etc. The PCs are not 'classic' but are part of the DEC story. All free with the caveat that you will not turn around and sell off the systems or memory--people with sharp pointy oscilloscope probes will visit you in the night if you do. I will, however, never turn away donations of cash or Guinness, to support body and soul. The units have been in climate managed storage for what that's worth. I am in metro-west Boston, MA and will deliver within a reasonable distance. I will also ship anything if you cover costs. Photos of systems avail at: http://chinalake.home.comcast.net/decstuff/index.html . Queries to whatpdp at chinalake com. Cheers, -jim ------------------------------ DEC PCs: No keyboards or external cables unless noted. If there is some special cable needed, I can dig around in the boxes. Digital PCP12 386/25 laptop (~1992/93?) Also seen w/ Panasonic label in RS stores Interesting note is the integrated mouse Have docs, power, spare battery, and util disk DEC Celebris Pentium 166/133 Slim case design w/ 16 bit ISA (AT) and PCI Removable cache card and processor power factor card Have the green/blue "Celebris" label - Removed when evaling and never got back on. Have docs and disks. DEC Workstation 200i2 Dual PPro/180 or 200 Could come configured either as intel or Alpha by swapping a good chunk of the system board. Not as neat a design as the 486/ST intel/Alpha. Friction latch for front is broken off--mostly a cosmetic issue. Docs and disks. Orig shipped with the two RZ28D scsis below, but now had IDE on built in controller. Collector has first dibs on the drives. Controller when I can locate it (apaptec 2940W). This system's last job was running some flavour of S/370 via Hercules on Linux. DEC DECpc 486 Workstation "Clam Shell" PCW10-A2 Slim design. Connected via a short SCSI cable to its SCSI storage unit. Together it had a clam-like appearance. Support for LK keyboard and had a large Appina video board DEC DECpc Storage box for the DECpc PCWXE-A2 Two HH 5.25 openings and one hidden (holding RZ24-LE) Have the connecting cable for this unit. The unit is generic SCSI, but I will only dispose of it with the PC. There is also a VAXMate if I can find it. In a month or two, two SOLs and Helios drives will be up on ebay. --------------------------- MV 3100-80 RAM: 72 megs Storage: Two RZ25 Ext SCSI (AMP 50 connector) w/ term DWS41 Usual three MMJ ports, etc. AUI-10-baseT adapter (not the term shown, I still need him) White DEC T + 2 50-ohm thinnet terms NON-DEC SCSI CR-ROM in external box if you want it ---------------------------- Misc: -New DEC 15 foot thinnet + 2 T and 4 terms (this is the white molded cable and connectors) -Grey 5' BNC RGB cable - maybe off the GIGIs and/or from BARCOs -DEC BC09J-03 MV 3100 SCSI cable - This the funky HD68 Female to AMP50 -DEC BCO6P-06 - six foot M-M AMP50 Right Angle SCSI -4-32 MEG (128 megs) SIMMS from an old Jensen box Alpha. 72-PIN 70NS Two are DEC and two are DATARAM -3-button workstation mouse VSXXX-GA (7-pin critter, rectalgular body, not the mickey version) -BA350 storage cab, with term, dual power supplies, two fans + spare, 4 covers--I have the rest someplace -TZ87 in cartridge for BA350 (will test) -Locating my box of internal SCSI CR-ROM drives-any takers when I do? -Gigatrend SL Turbo DAT (DDS1 me thinks) external scsi box --------------------------- 3.5 SCSI drives: (2) RZ28D (wide) (1) RZ28 (1) RZ28B Numerous of 50 pin SCSI ribbon cables 2,3,5 connectors Some Wide also ---------------------------EOF---------------------------

18 years, 2 months

Anyone have a datasheet for a Datel MX-1606?

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

>From my googling, I can see that this is a 16-channel CMOS multiplexer. I have 3 here, harvested from a university-built bit of laboratory hardware and I'm wondering if I can put them to use in something. What I lack is a pinout or any detailed specs. Anyone have any in-depth info on the MX-1606? Thanks, -ethan

18 years, 2 months

just for fun: Strong Bad isn't a vintage computer collector

by spectre＠floodgap.com

Strong Bad blows up his Apple-esque first computer and his "COMPY 386" that uses a Commodore typeface to preserve the 486 laptop that they took hostage. http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail159.html -- --------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! ------------------------------------

18 years, 2 months

VCF 9 plans...

by evan＠snarc.net

I know this is a bit early, but I'm arriving for VCF 9 on Thursday, Nov. 2 if anyone's looking to hang out in the evening. Cell is 646-546-9999.

18 years, 2 months

VZ200 available

by shawn.t.rutledge＠gmail.com

Anybody interested in one of these? Was going to put it on ebay but thought I'd ask first. It seems to work, too, and comes with the BASIC manual.

18 years, 2 months

Odd 8-bit ISA CD-ROM interface?

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

I have this board here, marked "Reveal / Part No. 14-004-008" with an FCC ID if BEJGCD-R420B. It is an 8-bit ISA card with a few jumpers (1-4 and 1-9) and a single 40-pin IDC connector. >From a bit of googling, it seems to be an ancient CD-ROM interface. That would be interesting as it's 8-bit and AFAIK, ATAPI devices are 16-bit only. There's not much on the card - a couple of buffers ('244, '245), an address comparator ('688), and a wee bit of logic ('32 x 2, '08, '00)... nothing to, say, latch two 8-bit writes into a 16-bit register. Anyone recognize this beast? Is it useful in anything besides a DOS/Win3.1 box? -ethan

18 years, 2 months

PCW's 25 worst tech products of all time

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

>Has anyone ever compiled a list of IBM PC and PC/XT >compatibles for >historical purposes (outisde of the no-name Taiwanese >clones, that is)? There are sites that attempt to enumerate all of the things that used 8088s or 8086s. I purpose to start a website one of these days. Perhaps some space could be reserved to host submissions which would attempt to do that very thing. Ick who cares about compatibles though? ;) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 2 months

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