Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org wrote on Tue May 23 18:55:07 CDT 2006:
>> Al, this is tall Dave I'm talking about.
>
> I can take care of them for him.
Someone might consider putting a list up somewhere of people willing/able
to read old media, including info on fees, capabilities and location.
I can read and write 9-track 800/1600/6250 (multiple drives to verify on)
all soft-sectored floppies, 3480, CompacTapes (TK50 and TK70),
QIC 24/60/120/150/250/525/1.35/2000, DLT III/IIIxt/IV, Exabytes and DDS1/2/4.
I also have a 9-track tape cleaning machine, but I don't attempt the "baking"
tricks--if the tape sticks after cleaning, I don't attempt any further.
I do this for free for hobbyists and occasional few tapes from desperate
small businesses; not particularly interested in business-level conversions.
I'm located in Minneapolis; turnaround is pretty much immediate, but return
shipping and the cost of my surplus media (if used) should be prepaid (paypal
works for me too) if the media is wanted back. Otherwise I can make the
imaging available over the 'net.
I can provide CPTP/TAP, SIMH, E11, TPC imaged tapes; teledisk, imagedisk or
raw/dsk files for floppies; straight disk dumps for any kind of SCSI or
IDE drive. I also specialize in hard-disk Morrow Micro Decision and Kaypro
machines.
Please consider this an offering of my services moving forward. Hobbyists
needing help in media conversion to electronic form can contact me at
staylor at smedley DoT mrynet DoT com
Best regards,
-scott
I scanned all five years of "The Compass" newsletter. Each year has 4-6
issues; each issue had typically 40 pages. They are now online as
image-only PDFs, about 4-5 MB per year.
http://www.thebattles.net/oddments/oddments.html#northstar
The first few years were a snap to scan, as they were not bound. The
last three years, about 600 pages total, were a drag since I didn't want
to cut up the issues and had to scan the pages one at a time on my
flatbed scanner. I'm just glad they quit publishing after five years. :-)
I have data sheets on the generic 82C55, what I'm looking for is
specifically the speed rating for the Mitsubishi 82C55AP-2... the
reason it matters is that the SBC6120 needs a 5MHz part, and many
82C55s are 2MHz.
Thanks for any pointers.
-ethan
> It was an Apollo-designed processor.
Like the POWER, a multichip-setup. Known internally as the A88k (the DOMAIN distros were suffixed A88k, also, so you could tell.)
The "Great Microprocessors" website (http://www.sasktelwebsite.net/jbayko/cpu5.html#Sec5Part2) has a small writeup on PRISM.
The big problem with the 10ks were that they were big, power-hungry, didn't support much software (HP didn't even release some bugfixes reliably
for a88k), and the processor bus (X-bus) terminators tended to burn out.
No, I haven't used one, I thought about getting one a while ago and started getting info. Haven't found one, though.
>> No idea why they're so rare and forgotten about
Apollo stuff in general seems to be getting into the "rare and forgotten about" category now - strange considering their predominance during the '80s.
As the uncommon sibling of the forgotten family, with no major movie/book credits, the DN10k is slipping into obscurity. Apollo should have open-documented their stuff.
Pity that the Alpha is now in the same boat- the race to mediocrity continues.
Rumor has it that Steve Thatcher may have mentioned these words:
>looks good except for the $12.95 shipping charges...
They do that to avoid a huge hit from ePay's charges...
All in all, about $22. USD, not a bad deal as the last ones our store
ordered were nearly $40. USD, and didn't have the SATA dongle.
Not a bad price whatsoever.
I've used 'em, and they're pretty handy overall. I prefer firewire, but
I've not seen such a widely adapted dongle that can be used on firewire;
tho anything "permanent" external that I build for that purpose is FW, as
it goes one heckuva lot faster....
... and don't start quoting numbers without doing the benchmarks...
;-)
Laterz,
"Merch"
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Bugs of a feather flock together."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson
zmerch at 30below.com |
I was looking on eBay yesterday to see what is available in the way of SATA
Firewire or USB external enclosures when I ran across a very interesting
device:
http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-to-IDE-SATA-Serial-ATA-Hard-drive-Adapter-kit_W…
Does anyone have any experience with devices such as this? It looks like it
might be a good way to recover data from old (on-topic) IDE HD's.
My real interest would be using it as part of a backup device. Simply buy
250GB SATA HD's, plug one in, run a backup to it, and then put it someplace
safe. Not really as reliable as a good SDLT-220 drive and tapes, but
definitely cheaper.
Zane
looks good except for the $12.95 shipping charges...
www.geeks.com has external cases that do USB 2.0. They have a SATA/IDE version and just an IDE version. Their prices are too bad and they do not charge as much as this guy does for shipping.
WD has a 320gig IDE drive on sale at OfficeMax for $99.99 right now.
best regards, Steve
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
I'm 'refurbishing' a "nearly ontopic"[1] (yet still kewl) pre-Sun 1U Cobalt
Raq3i system[2] and as it's not going to have a rotating media system in
it, I was wondering:
Does anyone here have any idea if (and if so, how much) the minimum current
draw might be on the 12V line? The motherboard is drawing around .27 to .3
A, and I know most "normal" PC power supplies have a 1A minimum on 12V.
However, there's very little that's "normal" about this critter.
I've googled for any type of specs for this critter, and for actual
*hardware* information, there's very little out there, I figgered I'd ask
the biggest group of hardware junkies I know of. ;-)
*Of course* all replies offlist, please, as this is off-topic.
Thanks a lot!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] - about 7 years old, IIRC - I'm changing to a little faster processor,
set it up to boot from Compact Flash media, and making a small RAM-only DNS
server out of the critter...
[2] It's not standard PC schtuff, as there's *no* video (but will show POST
info on the serial port) and has integrated SCSI on a *very* small
motherboard...
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Bugs of a feather flock together."
sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | Russell Nelson
zmerch at 30below.com |
Hi,
Anyone have several of these (8-10) or better yet a 3U-based VME chassis?
I want to install some 3U-based transputer boards and I currently only have
a 6U chassis..
Thanks,
Ram
PS: Before you ask, they really arent VME boards, but have the same form factor.
So I have to take things apart for me to do this...
Ram
