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FA: DEC A8000 Data Acquisition Module

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Ebay Item number: 5877617570 Ends in 2 hours!

18 years, 10 months

Nicolet manuals and software

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

As some of you may remember I've been playing with some old Nicolet Digital Storage Scopes. I just bought a set of manuals and some of the optional software for them from a guy on E-bay. In addition to the original manuals and disks, the previous owner scanned the manuals and sent me copies of everything in PDF and EXE files. I was impressed with the scopes before I got the manuals but after reading the manuals I'M REALLY IMPRESSED with them. I'm posting the copies of everything on my website at <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Nicolet%20Digital%20Storage%20Scope%20Manuals% 20and%20Software/>. The files that I have are for the model 4094 DSOs but I think most of them will also work with the other Nicolet models. Just to keep this on topic the model 4094 DSO uses a 68000 CPU! Joe

18 years, 10 months

Looking for Sun-2 Multibus Memory

by psand＠mac.com

Does anyone have, or know where I could possibly get, a 4MB Multibus memory card for a Sun-2/120 workstation? I'm specifically looking for Sun p/n 501-1232, but would also consider any third-party upgrades (like Helios Systems 2MB, 3MB or 4MB cards). Per

18 years, 10 months

MPF-1 Manuals

by f2hj.p.theunis＠hetnet.nl

Can you send me the (copy) schematics of the mpf-1 ? I will be thankfull for it. the adress is : J. P. Theunis Blokmaalder 27 1531 Pe Wormer The netherlands E-mail : j.p.theunis at freeler.nl Greetings. Hans

18 years, 10 months

John Savard's comparitive architecture page

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Also a nice compare of the instruction set formats of early machines > can be found here. should be: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cpint.htm much of this derived from the manuals on bitsavers. I was hoping someone would do something like this.

18 years, 10 months

manually installing MSDOS...

by marvin＠rain.org

I don't recall when it changed, but the first several versions of MS-DOS did require io.sys and msdos.sys to be the first two files on the disk. I would guess that changed at DOS 4.x or 5.x so that IIRC only io.sys had to be the first file on the disk. Being lazy, I would most likely go to machine running the version of DOS you want to install, and make a system floppy and add any other files you want/need. Then use "attrib -h -s -r" to make everything visable, and just copy them (in the same order as on the boot floppy) to the partition in question from whatever has access to that partition. I'm assuming here that you have a way of getting files to some other OS on that computer so they can be transferred to the DOS partition. ISTR that copying them to a formatted floppy would not work as something needed to be done to the boot sector, but I don't think that limitation applied to HDs. To boot from the HD, that partition needed to be made active using fdisk. I've never dealt with systems that can boot multiple OSs or the boot software that can handle that part, so I don't know the tricks of doing that part. IIRC, the maximum partition size is a function of the version of DOS you are using (33 MB or so for 3.3 and earlier.) > I want to put MSDOS on the FAT partition and triple-boot the machine - but the > laptop has no floppy drive on it, so I can't just boot from a DOS floppy and > run SYS that way. > > So is there a way of putting the necessary files on there from either Windows > or Linux such that DOS will boot? Can't remember how MSDOS does it's boot > process now, but I assume that certain files (io.sys for one) need to be in > certain locations on the FAT partition or something? > > At one point I would have known how to do this, but the info's long since > fallen out of my brain... > > (Currently I'm booting Debian / Win2k from Grub - it should handle booting > MSDOS too though). > > Before I shoot myself in the foot, are there any other gotchas (like MSDOS > needing to be the first partition on the drive or anything nuts like that)? > The FAT partition is about 2GB into the disk - I seem to recall that a FAT > partition can't be more than 2GB in size, but presumably providing the BIOS > can see the whole disk DOS won't care about the offset to the start of the > partition? > > > (All I actually want to do is put Slackware Linux on the machine there in > place of Debian, but the CDROM drive's too flakey to boot from. If I can get > MSDOS on there by copying from a remote machine then I can boot the Slackware > installer from MSDOS and then install the rest of Slackware across the network > - talk about complicated!!) > > > Ok, long email - will shut up now! :-) > > cheers > > Jules > > > >

18 years, 10 months

Looking for a VAX in and around Iowa, anyone with a full basement?

by jplist＠kiwigeek.com

Hey there; So over the weekend I reread Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg and after reading various mentions of VAXes running VMS it occurred to me that while I've worked with RSX-11M, RT11 and even various UNIXes on DECs, I've never actually touched a VMS machine. And while it would be reasonably acceptable to run OpenVMS on a SIMH simulated VAX, it would also be quite nice to have a real VAX to do it on. Anyone around Iowa (or even up in Minnesota) have a over-full garage or basement and want to get rid of a VAX? I'm fairly open to what model, I'm not snobby. Big or small, it should run VMS fine. I do actually own one VAX, a MicroVAX 2000 - charming little thing. Unfortunately it is sitting in New Zealand, a little out of reach right now. Not expecting much - but I thought I'd ask, you never know... ;) Thanks all; JP

18 years, 10 months

manually installing MSDOS...

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Another DOS question! :) I've got a laptop that currently has Win2k and Debian Linux on it, along with a small FAT partition (it's actually FAT32 currently, but I can change that easily enough) I want to put MSDOS on the FAT partition and triple-boot the machine - but the laptop has no floppy drive on it, so I can't just boot from a DOS floppy and run SYS that way. So is there a way of putting the necessary files on there from either Windows or Linux such that DOS will boot? Can't remember how MSDOS does it's boot process now, but I assume that certain files (io.sys for one) need to be in certain locations on the FAT partition or something? At one point I would have known how to do this, but the info's long since fallen out of my brain... (Currently I'm booting Debian / Win2k from Grub - it should handle booting MSDOS too though). Before I shoot myself in the foot, are there any other gotchas (like MSDOS needing to be the first partition on the drive or anything nuts like that)? The FAT partition is about 2GB into the disk - I seem to recall that a FAT partition can't be more than 2GB in size, but presumably providing the BIOS can see the whole disk DOS won't care about the offset to the start of the partition? (All I actually want to do is put Slackware Linux on the machine there in place of Debian, but the CDROM drive's too flakey to boot from. If I can get MSDOS on there by copying from a remote machine then I can boot the Slackware installer from MSDOS and then install the rest of Slackware across the network - talk about complicated!!) Ok, long email - will shut up now! :-) cheers Jules

18 years, 10 months

ISO Bill Yakowenko

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I'm trying to contact Bill to see if I can find out what Univac 9200 documentation he has, but didn't get a reply at the posted email adr. http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/classiccmp/univac/news.html

18 years, 10 months

Randy Mclaughlin

by CCTalk＠catcorner.org

Anyone know where Randy is? Kelly

18 years, 10 months

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