test-drb March 2006

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501 discussions

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Anyone have a set of pertec cables laying around they don't want? (or will sell/trade) I've decided to fire up my TS05 which has pcb edge connectors and I need two cables from the PCB edge connectors to the controller headers. I'm pretty sure these are standard pertec cables (comments welcome). I've got an TMSCP and TM11 controller, but no cables :-( -brad

18 years, 10 months

First drive letters?

by Billy.Pettit＠wdc.com

As long as we're on the business of firsts, what was the first operating system to refer to mass storage devices by single letters, starting with "A"? Does CP/M have this distinction? ISIS, IIRC used F0: and F1: for the floppies. Think of all of the keystrokes saved! Cheers, Chuck The first one I encountered was the MSOS (Mass Storage Operating System) software on early Control Data 3200 systems. MSOS and MASTER were both in the field in the late 60's. I was trained on MSOS in 1966. A lot of ideas in CP/M and similar progenitors came from systems already in the field for years at the time of the early micros. Billy

18 years, 10 months

Help for Tektronix 4041 GPIB controller tape, manuals and utility ROM pack

by Josef.Deuschinger＠web.de

Hello Monty, I read your message, dated 01/2002. For my TEK 4041 I would highly appreciate, if you can help me getting: a copy of the 4041 system verification tape, a copy of the manuals including the ROM pack manuals. I am also looking for an Utility ROM pack. Can you help, if yes, what would it cost including sending to Germany, German ZIP 80687? Thanks for your help in advance. Best regards, Josef

18 years, 10 months

Adds model 10

by CCTalk＠catcorner.org

Anyone know a site with info on the Adds model 10? I'm trying google, and not having much luck. I know they made quite a few machines in the day, but adds is such a generic word that I can't seem to find what I want. What other Adds equipment was there? Anyone out there collect Adds stuff? Thanks, Kelly

18 years, 10 months

QNX, Useful applications

by williams.dan＠gmail.com

> > I would *love* to see a VMS/VAX client, and to my knowledge > there are several VAXen on the net now doing not so much at any given > moment. Do any of you VMS gurus have time and inclination to combine > the VMS/Alpha and the NetBSD/VAX clients and let us put VMS/VAX on > the charts? I don't know if it's for the same reason but seti never had a Vax client because of a lack of iee floating point (from the faq). Dan

18 years, 10 months

Mac SE, SE/30, etc.

by marvin＠rain.org

A friend of mine passed away last month and he had a lot of Mac stuff in his garage. His widow asked me to take a look at it, and I didn't see anything worth much money. There are probably about two dozen machines; SE, SE/30, Classic?, Plus?, SI, LC, etc. and maybe a 512K along with a number of monitors. She doesn't want to throw them away, but does want them gone. If anyone is interested in these machines, let me know and I'll pass along the information. There were also some Imagewriters, and other stuff that I haven't had the time to check out yet. BTW, he did have a MAC 128K that I have now, but it was stuck in a non-128K case.

18 years, 10 months

Big Board - MicroCornucopia

by gkaufman＠the-planet.org

I'm in the process of restoring a Digital Research / Ferguson "Big Board". I built a bunch of them back in the 80's, and it will be nice to have one up and running again. I was wondering if anyone had copies of the support magazine - Micro Cornucopia, or any of the Big Board User Group disks? I have the first four issues of MicroCornucopia here and will scan them to PDF's when I get a chance. I'd like to eventually scan the full set if possible. Many thanks! - Gary

18 years, 10 months

DECnet for IRIX

by aijones2＠bsu.edu

So, I've been looking, fruitlessly, for a copy of SGI 4DDN or 4DLT for IRIX 5.3 or 6.2. 4DDN was SGI's DECnet Phase IV; 4DLT was their LAT implementation that required 4DDN. Resellers don't seem to feel it's a good idea to sell unsupported SGI software from fifteen years ago. Does anyone have a copy at hand? I did get ahold of a copy of 4DDN 3.0, but it turned out to be IRIX 4.x-only, and I lack any hardware that's IRIX 4-capable. (Nevermind that IRIX 4 is kind of scary) I know this is a bit of a weird request. For reasons I cannot explain, I've felt compelled to get my SGI onto the hobbyist DECnet ever since a filename with a typo in it led me to believe that I had 4DDN on-hand.

18 years, 10 months

Honeywell DDP-516 available (was: Anybody has an IMP? or a TIP?)

by erikb＠cyberspace.org

You wrote: > Anybody in this list has either an IMP or a TIP? > Or even an unmodified H516? I have two unmodified Honeywell DDP-516 computers available for trade in the Netherlands. Both were still performing their original job (in the USA) back in 2000 and are in excellent condition. For years I've tried to locate other DDP-516 owners, but it seems I'm the only person left on this planet with Honeywell DDP-516s. They are pretty interesting minicomputers with a nice story... Contact me directly if you are interested in working something out. Sincerely, Erik.

18 years, 10 months

Mercury use (WAS RE: hospital surplus)

by lee＠geekdot.com

> I don't believe that anyone's mentioned mercury arc rectifiers yet as > one application of mercury (and of course fascinating to watch!). There was a 12 phase 800KVA MAR at Droitwich but that was just a big, black, steel tank with porcelain insulated terminals. The last 'visible' MARs I saw were at Daventry, 6 phase 500KVA with three rectifiers per phase. Daventry has closed and most of the original building at Droitwich has been demolished. I know of one site where the remaining mercury, some 10s of gallons all in glass demijohns, was 'lost' during building work. Of course the metal you can detect in the new building base is all steel reinforcement bars, honest. Lee.

18 years, 10 months

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test-drb March 2006