I thought I'd share this link,
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A year or so ago, I swapped e-mails with a fellow in Germany who has a
Honeywell H316 minicomputer. I had mentioned on alt.folklore.computers (AFC)
that I had used these machines and he contacted me. A couple of days ago on
AFC he pointed out that there is an H316 on eBay,
http://cgi.ebay.de/Vintage-Honeywell-316-computer-like-Kitchen-Computer_W0Q…
temZ290016057113QQihZ019QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(hope that URL works - I cut and pasted; or you could just search for H316
Honeywell).
Anyway, I had a look and it is indeed the ones I used while I was at a
research lab in Halifax. Two things told me it was the same machine: first
was the accessory drawer (rack mount equipment) with some large connectors
and analogue to digital input connections (listed as A/D converter on eBay
page). Second was a wooden box (Hardware lot #4) with a complete set of
spare CPU boards. I can't believe anyone else would make an ugly wooden box
like that. We has massive spares because the system went to sea and if it
went down you had to fix it.
The system is in a small town near Halifax. No way I have the room to store
the H316 nor could I justify paying to have it shipped to Ottawa. I did save
copies of the pictures, something I never had. Anyway, seeing that sure
brought back some memories. Sigh!
Pulled a Newton (110?) out of the trash today
(complete with power, faxmodem, carrying case, etc.)
Appears to work.
Can these be repurposed? Or, is it just an oversized,
underpowered "notepad"?
Don <THX1138 at dakotacom.net> wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
>> On Aug 7 2006, 17:10, Don wrote:
>>
>>> The Asante box has an RJ45 on the rear. The cable that
>>> mates to the network connector on the 840AV has that
>>> funky mini-centronics on one end and an RJ45 *plug*
>>> on the other.
>>
>> I have a few of those. No, sorry, the RJ45 isn't a 10baseT connection.
>> It's more like an AUI connection, but with a different connector.
>
> So, it was just an unfortunate choice of connector
> (for the end that receives the cable from the AAUI)
> on Asante's part.
>
> Sheesh!
Even more unfortunate since Sun once used that same type of connector (I can't say whether it was the same size, never compared them) on one of their SBus networking cards. It came with two adaptor cables, one with a 15pin Sub-D connector (AUI) and one with a RJ45 plug and a gender changer (two RJ45 jacks back-to-back), so it obviously could have had both signal sets on the mini jack, or selected between them by sensing a jumper in the plug. Mix the two concepts up and I don't wanna know where it ends...
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> And, figure out how to back it all up to a PC/Mac.
>
All the backup software is at < http://www.info.apple.com/support/
oldersoftwarelist.html> for both PC and Mac. Works quite well.
CRC
Re:
> I'm looking for inexpensive se scsi devices that I can attach to my
> hp-3000/922 system. In particular, I am looking for
> disc and dds drives.
eBay.
BUT ... be careful ... depending upon the release of MPE/iX you
have, you may get problems if you attach too large a disk
(capacity-wise) to your 3000.
Easiest recommendation: logon, and do:
print iodfault.pub.sys
scroll down to the disk drive section ... what's the largest
drive they mention? Don't exceed that size.
A handy rule-of-thumb: most Seagate SCSI drives with model numbers
ending in "N" will (a) work and (b) are likely to be listed
in the IODFAULT file.
Stan
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Stan Sieler
sieler at allegro.comwww.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html
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It's double speak!
Reused, recycled, reapplied oreve plain english as in:
"We found a different application other than designed for.".
Right up there with destinated, argh!
Allison
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Irregardless. :)
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-Charles
I've recently inherited a ComputerVision CADDStation (basically a
rebadged Sun3 machine) and a pile of tapes of software for it from Scott
Quinn. Before I work on getting the machine up and running again, I
have two tasks I'd like to take care of, in no particular order:
1. Repairing the CADDStation's tape drive.
2. Archiving the tapes in a useful format.
For taking care of #1, as far as I can tell the drive works except for a
rubber wheel that's turned to this lovely gooey tar. I don't
necessarily _need_ to fix the drive, since I have a compatible
replacement, but I'd like to keep the system as original as possible so
if it's possible to fix without too much work I'd like to do that. The
tape drive in question is an Archive 5945S-1. Anyone have any idea how
feasible it is to find a replacement wheel for this drive? Any good
places to look that you'd recommend?
Regarding #2, I don't have an incredible amount of experience dealing
with tape, so I'm looking for suggestions for how best to archive these
tapes without losing any important information. I have a Linux machine
to which I can connect my spare tape drive in order to do the archiving,
it's just a matter of determining what's necessary on the software end
to make an accurate copy. The tapes all appear to be QIC-24, and
probably contain data in whatever format SunOS uses (since the
CADDStation basically runs a rebranded version of SunOS.)
Thanks for any suggestions!
Josh
On d, 9 Aug 2006 23:33:14 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
Duell) wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:59:12 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>> (Tony Duell) wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIK the signals on the 'mini centronics' connector on the Mac are
>>> much
>>> the same as the 'real' AUI interface, with the exception that
>>> there's a
>>> 5V power line, not 12V. In which case you can't link it directly to
>>> a 10
>>> base T hub. you need a trasnceriver.
>>
>> All my Apple branded AAUI with an RJ45 do 10BASET just fine. The
>> power supply does not set the interface parameters, but the coupling
>> transformer. I've 100BASET designs running off 3.3 VDC.
>
>
> Are you telling me that you've linked the 'mini centronics'
> connector of
> a Mac to an 10baseT hub with nothing more than a cable (that is,
> without
> an external transceiver module). Becasue I don't believe this will
> work.
>
> Of course it's possible to make a 10baseT transceiver that runs on 5V,
> and Apple did so. And then made a 10base2 one. That is not the
> problem,
> unless you want to use a 'normal' trnasceiver, not an Apple AAUI one.
>
> -tony
Mea culpa - I misread and misspoke...
What I understood was that because of the 5VDC power you couldn't
link it to a repeater... What I should have said "Apple branded
*MAUs* work just fine.
However, the port obviously has the signals required to drive an MAU,
but they don't meet the specifications of IEEE 802.3 (IIRC section
7). Besides the power supply, the signals will not drive the
requisite 50 feet that an IEEE 802.3 AUI is required. Apple and 3rd
party all have short (< 30 cm) cables. Perhaps that is why it is
termed AAUI.
CRC
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:59:12 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
(Tony Duell) wrote:
> AFAIK the signals on the 'mini centronics' connector on the Mac are
> much
> the same as the 'real' AUI interface, with the exception that
> there's a
> 5V power line, not 12V. In which case you can't link it directly to
> a 10
> base T hub. you need a trasnceriver.
All my Apple branded AAUI with an RJ45 do 10BASET just fine. The
power supply does not set the interface parameters, but the coupling
transformer. I've 100BASET designs running off 3.3 VDC.
CRC
