Hi,
I have this CD pack - MAYA 1.0 (1998?) that I dont' need/want.
This is from Alias/wavefront - a Silicon Graphics company.
It's yours for like $5 or so.
Includes these three CDs in a case:
--MAYA 1.0 (MAYA F/X, MAYA Artisan, MAYA Developers kit)
--Composer 4.5
--Discover MAYA
It may not run on your system! Some info here:
http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_1_0.html
I am moving stuff out of my warehouse to storage, and am finding all
sorts of nifty
toys.
One is a rom from a pretty old mini or mainframe, which is badged
Digital Systems
Corporation. It is "alterable" much like I understand the 360/20's were
with boards
that were used to program sense arrays, and could be altered in the
field to change
the firmware.
As I mention in the web page, I have little information on it, and
retrieved it as a
close friend was downsizeing his collection of stuff many years ago. I
don't know
that he obtained it from a working machine, but we both agreed that a
packrat
like me would be better suited for it than he was, as he wanted to just
have less
stuff.
I was very fortunate to know a few that were downsizeing to me rather
than the
land fill (and am working with one now).
Anyway, maybe someone will have some comment on the company name or
logo. I apologize for the current photos, I will try to scan or get
better resolution
photos of the label and post it, or follow up this on the list.
I get nothing on any site that is of any use, as the three words that
the company
chose for itself may as well be "smith" "jones" or any word with millions or
billions of hits, and nothing recent other than companies in Japan and Costa
Rica (both unlikely to be useful)
Jim
http://jwstephens.com/rom/page_01.htm
I've got a couple of old DEC machines which look like they could use new
filter capacitors in the power supplies: I tried reforming the originals,
and in some cases it worked, but there are also a few which look like
they'll never see full capacity again.
These are electrolytics, with 160,000mf/20v/24v surge and 57,000mf/50v/65v
surge being the original values.
Soooo here's my two questions:
-Where would you recommend buying new ones? Anyone have a capacitor vendor
they're particularly fond of (or particularly loathe)?
-Does it make better sense to replace these with electrolytics, and have
the same characteristics (and the same problems over time) as the
originals, or is there some more modern cap-technology which would give
the original's performance but with a better lifespan?
I'm not up on my capacitor technology. :) Any help or suggestions
would be welcome. Thanks!
-O.-
At 12:00 -0500 10/16/06, Roy Tellason wrote:
>That was my way to do dialup for a while here until it got weird after a
>storm.
This seems to be a recurring theme in posts here. At least here in
the central US, thunderstorms are pretty predictable. I have made it
SOP for over a decade now to just disconnect classic gear from the
wall when one is known to be approaching. (I even have the family
trained to do it if I'm not around; it helps that we and our
relatives have lost several TV's, stereos, modems, etc. to lightning
strikes, so it's not just a theoretical possibility.)
I recommend:
1) Plug all of the classic gear into power strips or surge
suppressors. Plug the surge suppressors into the wall for normal use,
and shut down/unplug the surge suppressor from the wall for storms.
2) Leave commodity stuff connected, if it's convenient. DSL hubs can
be disconnected from the wall (and cable or phone line!) or can be
left connected, with the ethernet coming out of them disconnected for
duration of the storm. Cheapo modern ink-jet printers can be left
connected to the wall, but disconnected from the classic computer or
classic network. Nice Laserjet 4MP printers, etc. should be
disconnected from the wall.
3) Wireless, where practical, makes disconnecting the network easy. A
single wireless/ethernet hub, using radio to get to the
wall-connected DSL/cablemodem hub, might be a *great* way to air-gap
the whole classic network. That would reduce the storm-proofing
operation down to a single wall plug (for the power strip).
4) Exercise the same precautions for winter storms - power line
outages/restoration of power can do unpredictable things to line
voltage and frequency.
5) Do not trust surge suppressors to do the job, either on power
lines or on modem/cable lines. They help, but they have limitations.
Some a lot more than others.
6) For stuff that is really hard to re-boot, UPS's can help if they
are big enough. Disconnect the UPS from the wall and live with the
alarm until the thunder dies down (but this assumes a big battery on
the UPS, which might not be realistic).
I know server stuff that wants to be up 24/7 is hard to do this with,
but for really classic equipment, or for anything that's used
on-demand (like Roy's modem), it really seems a shame to expose it to
ESD death for want of a minute's work walking around the house and
pulling plugs.
My worst loss so far (knock on wood) has been a Powerbook 3400
internal modem board (visible damage on the board, pictures available
on request). But I've been lucky a few times.
Comments or further suggestions welcome!
--
Mark Tapley, Dwarf Engineer
(I haven't cleared my neighborhood)
210-379-4635
> Has anyone ever found any GENIE tapes or backups?
There are two sets of backups from UCB and Shell Development that have been
found. The problem is there are no surviving copies of what was on the
swapping drum, so building a runnable system has proven to be very
difficult.
The contents of the tapes need to have the personal directories expunged
before they can be released.
Unfortunately, the SDS software library that CHM was just given doesn't
contain the system software for the 940. There is one diagnostic tape and a
user utility tape.
>From going through the documentation that came with the library, it looks
like there was very little for the 940 inside SDS as far back as 1971.
This video tests the myth that you can kill a man with a Model M keyboard
and still type on it afterward: http://m.etv.cx/
Cheers,
Bryan
P.S. I have no relationship with this site other then happening to find it
while searching for "RR-Net".
> >I am looking for a DOS program to turn my computer into an answering
> >machine.
There was a dedicated ISA-bus card for the PC called "Watson" that did
exactly that under DOS. It had a character-based user-interface. It
allowed remote access to the voicemail boxes. It could also serve as a
"demon dialer", intercepting touch tone signals to do speed dialing and
other functions. The device had two RJ-11 jacks, one for the phone line
coming into the house, and the other which fed all of the rest of the
phones in the house. It could also, with optional software, be set up
as a basic AVR system. It could also serve as a 1200-baud (IIRC) modem.
I don't recall any FAX capabilities.
I have one of these around somewhere, and even the "voicemail" software
(on 5 1/4" DOS floppies), along with the documentation. I used it for
quite some time on a clone "XT"-class machine utilizing a NEC-made
8088-compatible micrprocessor. It worked pretty well, though the
biggest problem was that there was no indication at the phone that
voicemail was waiting. You either had to check it, or go to the PC to
see if there were messages.
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Web Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
Hi All,
There's been some interest in the kit, so here's the answers to the
questions that I should really have included in the first email... ;)
I would prefer not to have to post anything, so yes, collection is
preferred. I'm in all day most Sundays, and after 18:30 during the week.
Email me for my address and contact details.
The kit is destined for the dump and then landfill if it's not gone my
the end of the month. If you can't get to me before the end of the month
I will keep stuff, but only if you promise to pick it up ASAP. :)
I have also found the following kit to add to the freebie list...
* Wangtek 5150ES SCSI QIC internal tape drive.
* A.N.Other SCSI DDS2 or 3 SCSI internal tape drive (black).
* Grid ruggedised 286 laptop (fully working but no battery, comes with
psu) has hdd of indeterminate size and plasma screen, currently running
MSDOS.
* DEC Alpha 600au workstation (with Tru64 media).
* Sun 17" CRT (13W3 connector and converter to HD15, sony tube).
Re the two cisco 2500 routers, they are a 2501 and 2514. Each comes with
a blue cisco X.21 cable and an AUI to RJ45 converter.
Regards,
Jules.
Hi everybody,
does anybody have documentation for the RA9x drives, which goes beyond the user's guide ?
A friend of mine has several drives which are faulty and display the type of error with an error code in
the display. Unfortunately, the user's guide, which can be found online, doesn't reveal all these codes. Maybe there is a sort of maintenance guide somewhere ?
I don't even know, if DEC ever published schematics of these drives, as they appeared on the market in the very early '90s... can anybody confirm that or do schematics exist somewhere?
I'm personaly interested, too, as I'm running a SA800 and some additional stand-alone RA92 drives. So far, they have been fine, but this can change any time...
Kind regards,
Pierre
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