test-drb June 2006

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by shirsch＠adelphia.net

Just picked up an Indigo2 at a swap meet. It came with no drives installed and, as a consequence, no operating system. I think it's operational since I get the nice SGI ba-ba-dink! from the speaker when powered up. SGI makes what they're calling Irix 6.5.22m available for free download. It is in (3) tarballs containing a bunch of tardist files. First question is: Is it possible to do a bare-metal install of Irix over the network using these packages? SGI manages to do a complete dance around the issue of whether this release is a maintenance ONLY (designed to drop over a previously installed system) or whether it can do a complete fresh install onto a bare hard drive. If it cannot, would someone with the 6.5 Base CD set be neighborly and contact me off-list? Second question is: The unit came with the EISA "Extreme" graphics adaptor. When I connect it to my shop monitor with a 13W3 --> HD15 cable I get absolutely no display. Are these boxes like the Suns and Alphas where they default (or can be made to default) to a serial console under initial conditions? If so, any pointers to the required null-modem wiring? (The unit has Apple-type 8-pin mini-DIN serial ports). Any sage advice appreciated! Steve --

18 years, 6 months

Wilmington, Delaware PC Professional User Group Archive Available

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

I have started an archive of the Wilmington, Delaware PC Professional User Group diskette archive. http://vintagecomputer.net/ibm/pc-pug/ I do not know who founded or managed this group in the mid 80's in Wilmington, Delaware USA but being from the area I thought I'd take on the project. The diskettes contain DOS 2-era IBM PC utilities. All that remains is a handful of the original PC-PUG diskettes. If you have more information on this group, please contact me. Bill Degnan

18 years, 6 months

OpenStep for Solaris is back(ish)

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

The recent thread on NeXTSTEP for HP-PA reminded me of something I've been playing around with (as a user): Lubu OpenMagic. It's a repackage and tweak of Solaris OpenStep to run on recent Solarises (works great on 9 9/04) If you're interested it's at http://alge.anart.no/projects/openmagic/ - be sure you have GNU tar and gzip available.

18 years, 6 months

DN10000s

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> And to bring two topics together (the other being the socket > thread and putting a socket on for future enhancements)... that > memory manager on the 3000 (or is it the 3500) that's on a > daughterboard... who knows the story behind that? If it was used with a machine having a 68020, the 68851 MMU was VERY late. They probably built their own. Should be easy to tell if the MMU has an 851 pin pattern. Apple did something similar on the Mac II to save the cost of an 851 (since the OS didn't use it) with Ron Hochsprung's "HMMU" ( a couple of PALs).

18 years, 6 months

DN10000s

by cctech＠retro.co.za

Hi guys I'm way behind and catching up on the archives. I've heard mention of an Apollo TechRef... has anyone ever seen one of these, or even better yet, has anyone introduced one to a scanner? :-) And to bring two topics together (the other being the socket thread and putting a socket on for future enhancements)... that memory manager on the 3000 (or is it the 3500) that's on a daughterboard... who knows the story behind that? Thanks W

18 years, 6 months

Got the 407 Control Panel In

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Boy, this is one big patch board and in very good shape for sitting in a garage for over 40 years. Now if I can just find a 407 and some doc's for it. :-)

18 years, 6 months

NetBSD and old hardware curiosity; sliding off to Linux on Indy

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

R4600 came in two versions: one with zero (0) L2 cache, one with 512k. Were you using GCC? older versions of GCC were ghastly on RISC architectures, both in building time and running efficiency.

18 years, 6 months

New (old) SGI Indigo2

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

Speaking of IRIX (in a somewhat OT way), does anyone know what became of SGI's promise (when they did the V-stream) to always have available a release that supports the latest critical security patches for public download? There have been several largish security holes where the patches don't run on 6.5.22, and nothing else is accessible . . . no new support letters detailing the policy either. I know about the "software developers' M-stream access" program, and have tried to sign up 4 times - doesn't work. I'm out of addresses to use. Does anyone have MIPSPro C/C++ 7.2.1 (or 7.2 if a 7.2.1 license will work for it)?

18 years, 6 months

3 x HP Apollo 700 series machines available (Manchester UK)

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Just on the off-chance someone wants a boat-anchor, Manchester uni have three HP 700-series (I suspect they're all 715/33's) machines awaiting the scrapper. These are PA-RISC boxes and won't run Apollo's Domain OS, but I suppose they're nicely built and may be of interest to someone who wants a small box to play with HP-UX on. Yell if anyone wants then and I'll hand over the email address of the person to contact. On the one hand I was told to respond soon, but on the other I hear that the staff are waiting for the junk room they're in to fill up before they go to the crusher, so your guess is as good as mine as to how urgent any rescue is! Sadly it seems that all their "real" Apollo stuff has already gone; I think the last few stragglers left the building some time last year. cheers Jules

18 years, 6 months

IBM Professional Graphics Adapter

by Christian.Groessler＠aladdin.de

Hi, I have programming documentation for the PGA. I will have to scan it some time... regards, chris > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chris M > Sent: Montag, 8. Mai 2006 23:33 > To: talk > Subject: IBM Professional Graphics Adapter > > I just received the first part of a shipment which > includes an IBM 5175 monitor. The PGA card and > possibly the AT box it resides in is on it's way. I > plugged the monitor into my Vermont Microsystems card > (essentially a PGA clone), and it worked like a charm. > Have yet to plug the monitor into a VGA card and > investigate that noise (the PGA card possibly has some > funky syncing scheme, like combined sync or > sync-on-green). But regardless, I'm desirous of docs > for these babies, technical or otherwise. Programming > infor-mation is of the utmost importance. Can anyone > help? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ********************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. It is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content ** ***********************************************************************************************

18 years, 6 months

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test-drb June 2006