test-drb March 2006

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TU80 on govliquidation.com (Norfolk, VA)

by legalize＠xmission.com

Erroneously labeled as an "FU-80" :-) <http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=816533&convertTo=USD> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>

18 years, 3 months

readtapes.com

by aek＠bitsavers.org

Speaking of data recovery, does anyone know what's up with readtapes.com? -- I haven't been able to contact John for over a month now by email or any of the phone numbers. I haven't checked to see if he's been posting anything on his RVHE support page. I assume he's buried on trying to keep his RVHE company going.

18 years, 3 months

a few micro-A references

by aek＠bitsavers.org

"micro A" performance unisys the first entry is doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.1989.10034 from 1989 which appears to be a product announcement (12 mips) The Unisys SCAMP package contains. the Micro A mainframe instruction ... Performance reputedly ranges from. 12 Whetstone MIPS for a system with a ... -- The Unisys SCAMP package conhttp://freepatentsonline.com/5113500.html appears to be a patent for it.

18 years, 3 months

$189,303.00 worth of VAX on govliquidation.com (Jacksonville, FL)

by legalize＠xmission.com

<http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=821551&convertTo=USD> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>

18 years, 3 months

Best book about 386 protected mode programming?

by vax9000＠gmail.com

People recommended some best 8088 books. How about 386 books?

18 years, 3 months

VAX Cabinet Parts Available

by technobug＠comcast.net

A local scrapper auctioned a VAX3500 system this last week and the winner asked only for the boards. They were about to junk the cabinet, so I asked them to hold off over the weekend so that I could inquire if there was any interest in parts. The card cage, power supplies, the disk interface cabling, and plastic are available. If there is any interest please let me know this weekend. CRC

18 years, 3 months

Can you identify this EPROM programmer? Looks like an HP...

by legalize＠xmission.com

Yes, I'm scouring through random stuff on govliquidation.com this afternoon... I spotted this item <http://www.govliquidation.com/aucimg/photos/1936/1935500.jpg> in this lot: <http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=804692&convertTo=USD> where it is listed as "LOGIC DEV STA PRTBL" with no additional information. Located in Tobyhanna, PA. Does anyone recognize it? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>

18 years, 3 months

manually installing MSDOS...

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

Ok, first, the "MS-DOS" that you want to use is "MS-DOS 7", "extracted" from Windows 98SE. This is easy, just find a 98SE system and format a bootable floppy. The utilities are in C:\Windows\Command of the 98SE system. [additional MS-DOS utilities are on the Windows 98SE CD]. This version of MS-DOS ***WILL*** recognize FAT32 partitions. Also, there was an update to FDISK in May of 2000, you want to get that, it's available from the Microsoft web site. It will recognize drives up to 137 gigabytes. There is no easy way to manually install, but you can boot from a DOS bootable CD and run SYS from that. After you make the "MS-DOS 7" floppy (above), use that floppy as an "image" in making a bootable CD. That should get you where you want to go. [Note, the full set of DOS utilities won't fit on a 1.44MB floppy, so be sure to put them on the CD so that you have a place to copy them from.]

18 years, 3 months

Best/Cheapest source for FPM memory (4mb/8mb)

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn at mind-to-mind.com> wrote: > Apart from EPay, are there any good sources for smaller-sizes of > <80ns FPM memory out there? Assuming you're referring to the standard 72 pin SIMM, my best source is the roughly 6 gallon bucket out in the shop that is almost full of nothing but 4mb/8mb sticks. No doubt that some of it is EDO and there is parity as well as non-parity. I got tired of sorting anything less than 16 mb and the bucket does the trick. Mike

18 years, 3 months

"party line" for terminals?

by James＠jdfogg.com

> I purchased an odd terminal display (no keyboard) from ebay > recently and it arrived today. Its manufactured by > Westinghouse Canada and has > 3 ports that look like DB25 female style and 1 DB9 style > female port that says "party line". I'll post more detail > later, but oddly enough this terminal monitor doesn't appear > to have a keyboard port, unless it connects to one of the > data ports on the back. > > What is the "party line" port and what's it used for? A > search of the cctalk archives didn't yield anything. There are some terminal protocols that use a daisy-chained RS232. The Burroughs/Unisys Poll Select protocol is one. It relies on the handshake lines in standard RS232.

18 years, 3 months

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test-drb March 2006