Do you have any of these clock modules available for sell, P/N: ASM-951-1200?
Her-Tech Solutions, Inc
Donna Moore/ President
760-730-1499 ext: 111
donna at htsolutions.org
Hello,
I have one of those "washing machine" disk drive which uses media with 11
platters in nearly mint condition (heads are locked, test protocol from
the manufacturer is included). I think that this is a rebaged CDC or
Memorex drive. I'd like to use this drive and therefore need any kind of
manual for the BASF 6114. My idea is to check out the drive and disk packs
and then let some students build an interface that connects this drive to
a SCSI bus ;-))
Christian
> We have the chips produced from earlier eras, but what attempts have
> been made to preserve the design tools from those earlier eras?
This is the same problem I've run into with minicomputer/mainframe software.
No one thought it was important to save this, or if they did I've not been
able to find anyone willing to release it.
Some of the circuit design stuff (like ECAP) is around. I have some of the
early Berkeley CAD tools tapes, and a few versions of Spice.
Livermore/Stanford's SCALD system (which morphed into the SCALD product from
Valid) is public domain, but I can't find anyone who saved a copy.
I don't know of anyone who saved a complete Daisy Logician, or a Valid Logic
SCALDstation (w software), or the VTI CAD tools (written in MAINSAIL).
You'll also find this stuff was tightly licensed in the workstation world,
since the price per seat was (is) so high.
Hello there!
I remember Meshna's quite well. Right across from Flax Pond, near the
old Coke Plant. I grew up in Lynn near Union Hospital, and went to the old
Lynn Trade school in 1969 - 1972 for electronics. I actually walked the 3
miles from my house to Meshna's at least once per week in those years. Tons
of big transformers, vacuum tubes, power supplies, O-scopes, and a lot of
World War 2 Army stuff thrown in for good measure. I remember the big
plastic bags of capacitors, resistors or even radio crystals for 1 dollar.
Jeesh, now that I think of it, those are damn good memories!! When I walked
up those wooden stairs onto the back long porch and went inside, I remember
the place had a particular odor of old wood which I really liked for some
reason. Just one of those things I guess! Sorry to hear that time has won
the race again, but that will never stop, and some things I will never
forget!
Rick Caprarella
Hi again,
the Emulex SC02/C controller seems to be able to boot my DU device (as
docs tell, my MSCP SCSI thing is EMulex too). That would be cool.
Will try it out in the evening.
What about the Emulex original diagnostics and tools (pack formatter
etc) for the controller?
Does anyone have that? Would be very good to have the tools.
Don't know where to get them.
Regards,
Philipp :-)
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Following was spotted on the mn.general group; I figured that someone here
might have an answer!
cheers
J.
==fwd==
Subject: Looking for vintage keyboard
From: Paul Czywczynski <paul at cbico.com>
Newsgroups: mn.general
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:16:21 +0000 (UTC)
I am looking for a couple of vintage Apple I or II ASCII keyboards. Does
anyone know of any sources, local or Internet based?
thanks... -Paul
Hi folks,
I have found the Motorola 68764 EPROM to make new boot ROMs for my
PDP11/23+.
Everybody seems to discuss the use of KDF11-B3, KDF11-BG etc. and MSCP
devices.
But what avout RK06/07?
In my system I have an Emulex SMD controller which emulates RK06 (with
other disks also RK07) drives, an RX02 and a SCSI controller doing the
DU MSCP thing. Everything works fine.
Only booting is problematic. I have to choose what I want to do by
configuring my cards:
* For DU, I have to enable auto boot on controller and CPU, nasty thing.
Makes booting SCSI possible - but only that.
* For RK (DM), I have to use the controller's ROM and to disable the LTC
on the CPU. Don't know if there's a line clock on the controller or how
to enable it. In that configuration I can boot DM and DY - but no DU
* With original PROM I can only boot DY on my system.
I want an original PROM image which does all the three. Does that exist?
If yes, please let me know. It would be very nice to have a machine with
the possibility to choose between all available boot devices on start
up. With the nice BOOT> prompt etc.
Thank you very much,
Philipp :-)
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I have a Mouse Systems M4 model optical mouse that came with my Amiga 3000 but does not have the special mousepad needed for it, any way to fake one of those pads?
The only other available mouse I have is for the A1000 and has an angled connector that won't fit unless I jack the A3000 case up a few inches.
How well did the M4s work anyway? I did plug it in to my machine and the buttons seem to work but I could not find a printed patterrn that would make the cursor do anything but barely move (The red LED does light up). I tend to like optical mice so this would be cool to have functioning.
> Well, it took a few years, but I finally brought my PDP-11/70
> panel back to life:
> http://www.saccade.com/writing/projects/PDP11/PDP-11.html
> I'm afraid I don't have the space or power (or noise tolerance!)
> to have the real thing around. Has anybody else brought panels
> back to life? I'm aware of the Spare Time Gizmos / Ersatz-11
> work, and of course the incredible "Gallery of Old Iron". Any
> others?
Very nice! I have an 11/70 panel sitting around -- and that looks
like an intriguing project to try.
I own XDS (SDS) Sigma 9 Panel and brought it back to life. It was
quite an undertaking, as the panel consists of about 100 lamps -- and
hand wiring all of them took quite a bit of labor.
It now blinks -- in some sort of random "computing" fashion -- but is
essentially a useless piece of eye-candy when it comes to being a
useful computer (after all, I don't have anything else except the
programming console). But I must admit, it is a pretty sight watching
all those blinkenlights flicker on and off :-)
I wired it up basically in tribute to my father for a present -- who
was employee #9 (or maybe #10) at SDS way back in the early 1960s.
I also own an SDS 940 programming console -- but I've chosen to leave
that untouched (a dead soul, if you will).
-Eric
P.S. -- I'd post a video of it in action, but I don't own a video
camera (I'll have to borrow one). I did take a bunch of snapshots in
succession and piece them together -- kind of a kludge -- but you get
an idea of what it looks like after watching it. Not nearly as nice
if it were a smooth video though. If anyone is interested, and I can
get around to it, I'll post a picture or two, and the "piecemeal"
video on a website in the (maybe near) future.
OK, I'm in a situation that will sound all too familiar.
My collecting habits have started to fill my basement. I'm
considering building some sturdy shelving that will let me stack
terminals 3 high. Well, really "two high" at standard bench heigh,
leaving room underneath for things like workstations and other floor
units that are approximately desk height or less.
One of you has probably done something similar, or maybe you know of a
pre-fab shelving unit that is up to the task, giving me the option of
investing labor or cash.
Suggestions?
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