>
>Subject: choosing a 360k FDD
> From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:05:29 -0700 (PDT)
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>
>So, I'm faced with a bunch of 360k floppy drives. One of them I will put
>in my main desktop machine for replicating floppies for, say, my C64,
>Kaypro, etc. What should I look for when choosing such a drive? The best
>specimen I have right now was taken from a Morrow Micro-Decision.
>According to the tag, it's a "TEC FB-503". Can someone tell me something
>about this?
>
>By the way, I have an IBM-branded full-height Tandon that I will trade for
>the "ideal" half-height.
>
>--
>David Griffith
>dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
I have a collection of drive but my go to drives are the TEAC 55B
for 360K, and 55FG for 720k/1.2M.
Allison
I've found (in the slowly shrinking pile I'm trying to distribute) an
IBM PC Network Adapter identified by what I believe is the part
number 6450213
I've got the original box (from 1985 looks like) and driver disks and
manuals. Doesn't look like this has ever been used. 8 Bit card,
with a coax
connector (it includes the coax cable). Not sure exactly what kind
of network it would connect to... but I definitely have no need for it.
Before I toss it in the scrapper, figured I'd see if anybody was
interested in it for the price of shipping... (it also has a
diagnostics for
IBM Personal Computer AT, Hardware Reference Library Diagnostics, and
IBM PC XT compatibility test diskettes...)
Earl
>The RD52 has RXS11 and boots.
Perhaps a matching fur hat and pink handbag to go with the boots!!
Rod Smallwood
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Sent: 10 October 2007 16:25
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: DEC RSX-11
At 1:50 PM -0400 10/9/07, Allison wrote:
>HALP!
>
>I just decided to attack a micro-11 system I had not attendded to.
>Good news is it's pristine and complete:
>
> BA23, 11/23BH, 512k (M8057), DEQNA, RQDX2(late firmware).
>
>The RD52 has RXS11 and boots.
What version?
>It's been a long time since I used RSX and longer since I've
>administered it. So some procedures for doing things I need to know or
>a pointer to.
>
>TO shut down I do?
>RUN $SHUTUP
>from a privileged account.
LB:[1,2]SHUTUP.CMD can be edited to include local shutdown tasks. It is
invoked as part of $SHUTUP.TSK.
>TO change admin password how, and which account again?
If this is a version of RSX that has DCL installed, use SET PASSWORD.
Otherwise
>RUN $ACNT
>If I add a 8line mux (DHV or DZV) what the procedure to get system to
>install and recognise it.
Either VMR or @[200,200]SYSGEN; no longer remember under what
circumstances you could "just" VMR.
>On line DOCs to refresh memory from?
I've assembled some of mine, Al's, and others at
<http://dundas-mac.caltech.edu/~dundas/retro/DEC%20Docs/RSX/>
John
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of graphics products (UNIBUS or
Q-BUS) for the PDP-11 family of minicomputers?
Please don't list terminals with graphics capability, that's not what
I'm after.
Thanks!
--
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Hi,
I recently bought this S-100 chassis with four Vector Graphic boards. Based
on what I gathered from searches, the Vector Graphic system uses 100TPI
floppy disk drives.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:1
1&Item=320164273848
Will anyone confirm which disk drives are compatible with the Vector Graphic
floppy disk controller? I believe those 100TPI drives such as the Tandon
TM-100-4M. There are probably others from Micropolis as well so if you know
of some please include them in a response.
In addition, I would like to extend the Catweasel hard sector decoder
software concept to the Vector Graphic 16 sector 5.25" hard sector floppy
disks. I have written Catweasel floppy disk decoder software for the
NorthStar which now seems to be working pretty good. Also, the Catweasel
Heath project is coming along although not as far along as the Catweasel
NorthStar software. It can make images of Heath SSSD floppy disks.
Does anyone have some 100TPI floppy disk drives they would be willing to
sell? I think I will need at least two or three drives total so even if you
have only a single drive you can part with, I would appreciate an offer.
Thanks!
Andrew Lynch
>
>Subject: Re: PDP-11 graphics products
> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:21:52 -0700
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>At 1:02 PM -0600 10/9/07, Richard wrote:
>>Does anyone have a comprehensive list of graphics products (UNIBUS or
>>Q-BUS) for the PDP-11 family of minicomputers?
>>
>>Please don't list terminals with graphics capability, that's not what
>>I'm after.
>
>I'm not aware of such a list, I believe there are only about 3-6
>"video cards". I've a 3rd party card that was used in a Cameca
>Microprobe (Electron Microscope). The DEC cards were/are popular in
>spectrum analyzers, and a lot of those are still in service in labs.
>
>Zane
Ones I know of are the QVSS, QDSS and the Matrox cards for QBus but
versions for unibus may exist. I do have a video/graphics card for
Qbus but no info or vendor name but I can say it's NOT DEC or Matrox.
Allison
> Quoth Ian
> But, of course, in an ideal world, all this would be
> much easier. First consider a stairwell with a 45
> degree incline, and a spherical arcade machine....
Ideal world? I'm thinking Sisyphus here...
At 11:22 PM 10/9/2007, you wrote:
>Yep, I remember finding your page when I saw a Terak on ebay a year or
>so ago. Even though I don't know much about them, it's in my top-5
>wanted items list. Must be the unique-factor. Same goes for the
>Symbolics machines :)
There was a Terak on eBay!? Wow. Never saw that. What did it go for?
I have four or five 8510/a's and matching monitors, plus a box or two
of parts, as well as a rare hard drive. I know another fellow from
my old days in the computer graphics business who has a slightly
larger pile as well as a color Terak or two.
I have a lot of other computers that I'd give away before I'd give away
these, just on the theory that you should pick one system and specialize,
as well as my baby-duck affection for having used them in college
approximately 53 million years ago.
When they asked me to bring a working Terak to the 25-year UCSD Pascal
reunion a few years ago, I was sad to discover that my last working
unit no longer powered-on. When I get around to it, I'll need to figure
out why. The other long-standing to-do item would be to create
extensions for one of the PDP-11 emulators to match the Terak's hardware.
- John
I think I've sucessfully digitized the Timex Sinclair 1000 Power Pack 1
(2K RAM) tape. Would someone with a Sinclair and a tape player please
check my result?
Please email me privately so I can give you the correct URL. I don't want
random people hammering my connection.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>
>Subject: Re: DEC RSX-11
> From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:46:06 +0200
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 10/9/07, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>> HALP!
>>
>> I just decided to attack a micro-11 system...
>>
>> It's been a long time since I used RSX and longer since
>> I've administered it. So some procedures for doing things
>> I need to know or a pointer to.
>>
>> TO shut down I do?
>
>IIRC, from an account with privs, it _might_ be...
>
>@[1,4]SHUTUP.CMD
>
>.... or something quite similar.
>
>> TO change admin password how, and which account again?
>
>It's been a long time, and I've worked with a variety of early-1980s
>versions of RSX, but the account, at least, is probably [1,4].
>Unfortunately, I can't recall what program you have to invoke to
>twiddle passwords and privs. It might even be dependent on exactly
>what version of RSX you have, if it's an old one (not all that likely,
>though, if it's a MicroPDP. It would be more likely on an 11/34,
>say).
>
>> If I add a 8line mux (DHV or DZV) what the procedure to get
>> system to install and recognise it.
>
>IIRC, you'll have to do some type of SYSGEN - lots of questions to
>answer, then several hours as your wee little F-11 spins its wheels
>and builds a new system. I haven't done a sysgen in over 20 years, so
>hopefully someone else with fresher experience can speak up.
>
>> On line DOCs to refresh memory from?
>
>I don't know of any, and I wasn't able to Google any. :-/
>
>-ethan
Thanks,
Thats a start, I found docs on bitsavers. Some however appear broken
as I down load them and mid way my system crashes. First thats rare
and unusual for this crate. The other is there is no clear reason
why. May be that some are >50mb in size and something is broken.
I'll try FTP rather than firefox and see.
Allison
