I have this recently acquired PIX-520 with what seems to be an
entirely *blank* FLASH boot card. The machine is so clean inside -
not a speck of dust - that I think it may be a NIB unit that someone
decided to disgorge onto eBay last summer. It goes through the usual
PC-ish boot dialogs (there's an Intel Pentium board inside, with 3
Intel NICs and a 3.5" floppy as the only peripherals besides the boot
board), but when all the PC stuff is done, the unit acts dead - no
traffic on the serial port that I can see, no text on the (installed
by me for debugging) video.
I'd try the Cisco site, but besides lacking a current log-in, from
reading some of the firewall mailing list entries about older PIX OS
files, it seems that Cisco may have purged some of what I'm looking
for. If anyone happens to have any archived files from older versions
(pre 6.x) of PIX OS and the attendant boot helper files (secondary
bootstraps), please contact me *off list* if you are willing to share.
For starters, I'd love to find a file like bh510.bin, bh512.bh or
bh514.bin, which are various versions of the "boot helper" for the
less-obsolete versions of the OS. If I had a boot helper file written
to floppy, I should be able to at least see some activity related to
it _trying_ to install the OS.
Thanks,
-ethan
FYI... I'm just passing this along, please contact the original poster.
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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:19:01 GMT
Groups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec.micro,alt.sys.pdp11,vmsnet
.pdp-11
From: Jeff Shirley <spamalot at mindspring.com>
Reply-To: spamalot at mindspring.com
Subject: MicroVAX IIs/BA123s in Demand?
Id: <9zyoh.8847$w91.8571 at newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
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Greetings.
I have a couple of MicroVAX II systems in BA123 boxes I would like to sell,
hopefully to hobbyists rather than the local scrap guy. My question is
whether it might make more sense to just pull the boards and cabinet kits, and
scrap the BA123 enclosures.
The first system has fairly standard components, a KA630 (M7606-AF), two 4MB
boards (M7608-BP), a pair of DHV11s (M3104), a DELQA (M7516), RQDX3 (M7555),
TQK50 (M7546), RD53, TK50, and a pair of boards from Ultimate Computer
Corporation. I think the second system has some more interesting parts, like
a pair of ESDI dives and a Pertec tape drive interface.
The first system weighed in at 125 pounds, which would cost upwards of $150 to
ship across the country from (from the Los Angeles area). I just do not know
if there is any demand for the old BA123s in the hobbyist community.
Opinions?
Jeff.
P.S. Apologies to the PDP-11 groups for the crossposts.
P.P.S. This old DEC hardware amazes me. I hooked a VT220 to the first system
described above, and powered it up. It booted right up with MicroVMS V4.7,
circa 1987.
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Jeff Shirley
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"Bill Gates is filthy rich, but that doesn't mean I want to be married to him."
One of my rqdx3 boards suffered a trauma in a previous life and one of
the "DC005" chips at the bottom cracked in half. Needless to say the
board does not work.
I removed the old chip, but what now?
Does anyone have a spare DC005 or know of a suitable replacement? I
assume this is one of the magic DEC chips for qbus.
I suppose I could try extracting one from another board, but that is
pretty painful... dips are easier to get out if you can snip their
leads.
-brad
On 1/10/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> I just got ADVENT running on my SBC6120 only to discover the terminal
> I am using has a flakey keyboard.
Bummer.
> Just what do you use for a termial with the SBC6120?
For times when I need to move files (like programming the Flash on my
IOB6120), I use a Linux box and Kermit and whatever keyboard is on the
Linux box (laptop or desktop). For real terminal use, lately, I've
been using mostly LK201s on DEC terminals, and whatever keyboard is
handy for my Planar ELT-320, a 9" orange-screen electroluminescent wee
terminal that takes both PS/2 keyboards and DEC LK201 keyboards.
Since the terminal is so small, I like to use my Happy Hacking PS/2
keyboard with it - the whole arrangement is smaller than many laptops.
The heaviest part is the slug of metal in the base of the terminal to
keep the screen from tipping over (I also have a wall-mount case for
another ELT-320 with no base).
So... depending on platform, a DEC LK201 or some random PS/2 keyboard
(Keytronics are nice)
-ethan
Is the gateway destination old enough to be on topic? :)
Well, I'm in need of a radio reciver of a gateway destination keyboard.
Anyone wanting to part with that? :)
Thanks!
Alexandre
I didn't know this until I acquired some of these, but the keyboards
have a mouse port on the back; it looks like a standard serial 9-pin
connector and it has "MOUSE" labelled above it. However, I have yet
to find any documentation on the pinout or electrical/comm
specifications for the mouse.
Does anyone recall having a mouse hooked up to their Tektronix 4105/4205
and what kind of connection it had?
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> I know how to look up all the items a given seller is selling on ebay... but
> I seem to be too brain-dead to see how to do that on vcm. Can someone
> enlighten me?
>
> Jay
I don't know if there is an easier way, but click on one of anyones items, and
below the listing is a link to "seller's other Ads", in my case "marvin's other
Ads."
Also, I have quite a bit of HP stuff I have no need of that I just can't get to
... yet :) ... hp-8x, display terminal (bad screen rot), keyboards, printers,
drives, and I don't know what else :).
