Is there any interest here in DEC XMI gear? Preferably cash or trade
interest.... ;)
I have several rackmount XMI enclosures, a couple of CI and a *bunch*
of SCSI and ethernet boards with cab kits. They're about to go on eBay,
but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone's looking.
Oh, yeah, I also have 5 or 6 star couplers and a bunch of Big Blue CI
cable, and a couple of HS<mumble> CI-SCSI adapters *without* their flash
cards.
For that matter, I have 2 rackmount DEC7000 cabinets I'd like to see
disappear. One is the bare cabinet, the other has 2 procs and the
laserbus-XMI adapter intact.
I'm supremely uninterested in crating or palletizing the enclosures,
so you'll need either to arrange that yourself or prepare to be extorted. :)
Reply off-list if interested. I'll be making a more specific
inventory this weekend.
Doc
Does anybody have images of the v2.1 Z-80 firmware for the VT-180 (aka
Robin) ? At least, I think 2.1 was the last version ever released. They
should be DEC part numbers 23-017E3-00 and 23-021E3-00.
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong
Hi all,
The VCF East 4.0 web site at www.vintage.org is now ready for use. The
event, in case you forgot, is TWO days this year -- June 9-10.
Exhibit booths and vendor booths cost the same. (At past VCFs it cost a lot
more for a vendor booth than for an exhibit booth.)
The single-booth fees are:
$15 for paid MARCH members ($5 cheaper than last year)
$25 for everyone else
Discounts may be available for people who reserve multiple booths.
We'll have almost twice as much physical space as last year, so we want as
many exhibitors as possible. We'll accept vendors but that really is not
the focus.
PLEASE SIGN UP EARLY. AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.
Even if you only have a general idea so far of your exhibit topic, that's
fine. Go ahead and sign up. It makes life much easier for us in planning
and marketing the event. If everyone waits until the last minute, then the
public will go to the VCF web site and see what appears to be very little
participation, and decide not to attend. Conversely, if people sign up
early, it builds excitement for the event.
- Evan
I bought this from dvdplanet the other day (good deal: $15) and
watched it recently.
They seemed to skip the entire minicomputer/workstation phase and
jumped straight from mainframes to the personal computer.
What was interesting though is the collection of footage that they
used throughout. I spotted what looked like footage of an HP terminal
factory, manufacturing 2621's. On the shelves in the background were
2648 style cabinets. It was a brief clip, but I felt "cool" knowing
that I was one of the few people who would recognize the equipment!
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I'm hoping someone out there can help me remember. I can dig through
my hellbox and hook up a drive and figure it out, but I'd just as
soon hear it from someone with a better memory.
It's this:
The old Sony SS 40-cylinder 3.5" floppy drives--was cylinder 0
located an additional step outwards from where modern 3.5" drives put
cylinder 0? I can't remember for sure--it's a sign of age.
Cheers,
Chuck
Somehow I got subscribed to an optics catalog. This got me to thinking.
How hard would it be to cause a laser beam to sweep with the speed and
accuracy to be a substitute for a CRT? The upshot? Take an old terminal
with nasty screen burn. Cut off the gun end of the bottle, clean off the
old phosphor. Apply new phosphor of some kind, then mount the laser
rasteriser where the old gun was. Projecting raster images on the side of
a building would be fun too.
--
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?
Told ya'll I was going to dig back in to that 11/45 restoration project :)
Got the workroom cleaned up enough to actually have room to work on the
thing. Stripped it down to the very most basic configuration possible
(including getting rid of the 9312 for a 930, etc.). Barebones. No cards in
SPC slots except grants. Known good 16K of core and then a base processor
set (without segmentation and without FP).
Turned on the bottom 742, then the top one... fans all come on but nothing
on the front panel at all. Checked the obvious front panel keylock, it
wasn't off. Time to check voltages & ripple on the backplane.
E02B2 is at 0.55v, indicating the H745 in slot E is officially a problem
child.
E15A1 is at 0.95v and E01B1 is at 0.05v, so the +15v regulator built into
the top H742a is suspect. Noted that the small fan on the top of the top
H742a isn't turning so likely the regulator is well-done.
The test points on the backplane for regulators B, C & D are ok, as is
the -15v from the bottom H742a.
Time to get the H742a docs from bitsavers :)
Jay West
"the resident Atari Maniac with a side fetish for Mindset and Corvus
systems,
now playing with a VAX.....Curt"
Just a blind shot in the dark trying to find someone who knows about Corvus
Systems and Atari 8-bits>
We had heard one time that Ataris had beenn hooked to a Corvus system and
were wondering if you had any info.
Thank you for your time
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