It seems that govliquidation.com has had *lots* of good mini and
workstation stuff going out of this location.
Is there anyone on the list near to that location?
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I'm going to move an old Honeywell DPS6, working. I've in mind to park the
heads of the disk ... but how ? The disk unit is from Magnetic Peripherals ,
model 9448 Internal parts are from CDC , the only code present is BJ7D1-A
Anyone know this unit/system ?
Thanks Alberto
Hah, that brings back memories. The 9448 was code named the Phoenix or
cartridge module drive or CMD. Built in Oklahoma City in the early 80's.
It's part of the SMD family, sharing the same interface and some of the
components, like platters and heads. And used a common Servo Track Writer,
the key to their success.
For shipping there should be a head locking bar. Lift up the top cover
(with power off). On top of the actuator should be a bar with two pins
sticking out. There should be a yellow label showing how to twist the bar
90 degrees and it fits into a hole on the carriage and the frame. There was
also an instruction sheet stuck inside the top cover with a drawing showing
how to install the bar.
A lot of the field engineers used to paint the outline of the bar in red for
newbies. When new, there was a green card taped to the outer plastic bag
with locking and shipping instructions.
I don't have any manuals handy - I'm still in Orange County. But if nobody
else on the list has any, I'll look on my next trip up to the Bay area -
Mother's Day. I think all of my parts are gone, though I did come across a
box of heads recently.
In the last few months, I've seen the field tester come up several times on
eBay. It was called the TB-216. One went for $10 a couple of months ago.
These would work on any SMD family drive. Right now there is a Wilson Labs
in auction. That also works on any SMD drive, as well as most of the
Fujitsu drives.
I've seen cartridges on eBay several times, but the idiots open them up to
show the platters, thereby hopelessly contaminating them. I used to clean
them, but it takes careful patience.
The CMD was one of the drives I supported out of OK City for 10 years. I
did all the cartridge drives, but mainly the Hawk and Phoenix. I did a long
write up on that time recently for an alumni memory book. I should revise
it and post it here, provided the list owner doesn't mind 20 pages of
ramblings.
Incidently, the Lead Design engineer, a media engineer and one of the
firmware engineers for the Phoenix work with me here at Western Digital. I
shared with them that there still is a Phoenix working somewhere. It
delights us all. We spent a lot late nights getting it debugged.
Especially contamination issues; removeable media was a Black Art to keep
running.
Billy
Does anybody have software or documentation for the SPI 8606 EPROM
burner?
It's parallel port based. Was there any sort of standard protocol
for these, or am I out of luck if I can't find the original software?
Thanks,
Tom
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Just wanted to mention that I've joined the staff of the Computer
History Museum as Software Curator. I can be reached at my bitsavers
address or my new address at the Museum. I'm hoping to expand the CHM
collection by becoming more proactive in trying to locate and archive
what early software still survives, which means trying to contact
people who might still have old media and listings, especially from
the seventies and earlier.
http://www.computerhistory.org/about/staff/kossow/
I'm posting this for a non-listmember. If anyone knows the answer or wishes
to reply, please reply to the original author below, not me.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Clery" <mike.clery at thruput.co.uk>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 4:20 AM
Subject: Diagnostic listings
> Do you know where I can obtain the maindec listings for the ZRKH to ZRKL
> programs?
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Mike Clery
> Consultant
>
>
> Thruput Ltd
> Studio House,
> 5 Flowers Hill,
> Brislington
> Bristol
> BS4 5JJ
>
> Tel:+44 117 3305980
> Fax:+44 117 300 5584
>
>
Does anyone have any documentation for the Lear Siegler ADM-5 terminal?
There's nothing on manx or bitsavers...
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> How many of the companies mentioned there still exist? Some, but none
> of the ones mentioned still make terminals...
Another company that doesn't make terminals anymore is Matrox. Not much on
their terminals on the web either.
Lee.
Just a note that, contrary to my message the other day, a
serial-port-equipped Shiva LanRover *can* be connected to terminals, not
just modems.
Not sure how much else I got wrong...
-- Adam
