Hello. I'm not sure if this is the correct list to ask about this, but I
accept suggestions about the matter. I have one Sun3/50 and a couple of Sun
3/60. No disks or monitor. I know that they use ECL monitors. In fact I have
the ECL cables, plus one Extron RGB device to (supposed) connect them to
other kind of monitors as VGA and so. Someone has experience about this
matter ? Related resources ?
THanks and Greetings
Sergio
Who's our graphic's system collector on the list? Wasn't there a
Richard or someone? I'm going through an old box of documentation of
mine and I want to send the graphic stuff on to someone who collects/
scans/and post this kind of stuff. It's stuff on graphic chips,
acceleration, etc. Glint, PowerVR and others.
Please write me off the list.
Thanks
Rob
Rob Borsuk
email: rborsuk at colourfull.com
Colourfull Creations
Web: http://www.colourfull.com
If so, Uncle Sam wants you!
Well, not really. I'd be immensely appreciative if someone with one of
these could take a quick gander at a couple of things for me. To get mine
back to functioning order I need to know the following to make certain I
have the right parts. Please note this is specific to an RE2 Onyx - the IR
Onyxes definitely had different Power Boards. The VTX may too, but I'm not
positive - better to be safe than sorry later.
1) The number and types of Power Boards in the upper front card cage.
(512, 505, 303, etc?)
Part numbers would suffice.
2) The part numbers of the Online Switchers (located on the top of the OLS
after it's been slipped out).
And that's it!
Many, many thanks to anyone who takes the time to whip out a screwdriver
and take the front panel off their Onyx to let me know.
JP Hindin
John / all,
Sorry I've been lurkin' on this thread for a bit, though thoroughly amused
that 2 years after I listed the system I can finally say, yes I have a
taker. Or I think I do -- hence I put John's mind at rest by retiring the
listing. If anyone had checked the cctalk archive, you'd see I was whining
on the very subject of this system a couple of weeks back (see
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2007-September/245969.html).
I'm afraid the collective amnesia on this point was kinda amusing me. Rest
assured the system is safe (to the best of my knowledge... I'm 4000 miles
>from it and haven't check on it for a couple of years).
Regards,
Colin Eby
Curse you who mentioned this Mainframe on the list.
My love of big iron couldn't let it go to the dumpster. Check out
the trip for this monster on my family blog at
http://www.borsuk.us
Any ex-Amdahl administrators out there?
Rob
Rob Borsuk
email: rborsuk at colourfull.com
Colourfull Creations
Web: http://www.colourfull.com
I've got a Vector MZ with a ZCB processor and BitStreamer II I/O
board; at present the 4.0 'C' series monitor program uses serial
port A on the BitStreamer for its console, but I want to remove the
BitStreamer and use the serial port on the ZCB instead.
At a fast glance I can't see a jumper setting that would accomplish
that; anybody out there have any experience/ideas by any chance?
TIA,
mike
PublicSurplus.com has an RS6000 server system up for auction
Is this considered a vintage system of any value?
Worth going after?
Auction #217152 - IBM RS/6000 SERVER (TYPE 7017-S7A):
IBM RS/6000 S-SERVER, TYPE 7017-S7A, SN 10-92250. UNIT IS TWO TOWERS,
EACH MEASURING 23"W X 41"D X 62"H. INCLUDES IBM MAGSTAR MP 3570 AND IBM
7133-020.
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>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:18 -0400
>From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com>
>Subject: Re: Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco
>Rumor has it that M H Stein may have mentioned these words:
>>You won't convince me that there isn't far more activity in this area today
>>than there was then, in part just because it's so much more affordable and
>>mainstream world-wide; how many people in Russia, China or India were
>>playing with computers in the 70s? Even if only .00001% ever take the
>>cover off their computer, that's still a lot of additional tinkerers.
>When anyone starts out with "You won't convince me..." and you don't have
>_hard numbers_ then it doesn't matter who has what facts...
>... but for that matter, I'd disagree with you anyway... for the simple
>fact that you're looking at *sheer numbers.* I'd look at it as a per-capita
>number: The number of people who dug deep into their computers as a ratio
>of the total number of people who actually had computers (say... 20 years
>ago) IMHO would be higher than today. There might be more projects overall,
>but the number of projects in comparison to the number of people who just
>use their computers as toasters as a ratio is lower.
>But as you're not convinced for anything for any reason, it would be
>pointless for me to tell you about it. ;-)
---------------------
No, you can't *convince* me because I already agreed with your viewpoint ;-).
What are you "disagree"ing with? I think you said exactly the same thing I did,
that it's almost certain that more people are digging into their computers today
than back then just because there are so many more people with computers,
while it *is* probably true that for various reasons fewer people who own or have
access to computers are tinkering with them. Maybe you missed my original
post where I said, "perhaps the *percentage* of computer owners who dug into
the hard/software was higher then, but most of the time you *had to*, whereas
today most of it is done for fun and enjoyment, as well as pride of accomplishment."
(Note the "probably" and "perhaps," since I *don't* have hard numbers ;-) Since
you're picking nits, I'll even amend that to "almost certainly;" happy?
Computers are more reliable and harder to tinker with at the hardware level
today and people have a lot more options how to spend their spare time;
so what? There's still a lot more overall activity and with all the forums and
Web sites like this one it's a lot broader, more fun and not as socially isolated
today, at least as far as I'm concerned; hackers like us were probably (!) more
outside of the mainstream back then, and the chances of someone understanding
what you mean by GHz or MBs are probably (!) better today.
I still don't see why case mods, seeing how far you can push speed with
water-cooling etc., or programming a CPLD instead of burning your fingers on a
hot soldering iron should be excluded; that sounds a little like old-fogey-ism
to me. Times have changed and folks are doing what's relevant and possible today
for mostly the same reasons and satisfaction as then; more often than not that
involves modern approaches to *old* hardware & software because it's almost
impossible to do some of the things we used to, due to the complexity, inaccessibility
and lack of documentation of most of today's hardware.
I think a lower percentage of people having to spend time dealing with flaky and unreliable
hardware, poor/buggy software and tools, incompatible disk formats, etc. is a good
thing; my enjoyment of that sort of thing may well be a symptom of a mental disorder.
Sheesh; like I said, 'nuff said.
m
