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>Subject: Re: Pictures of My Machine Room (So Far)
> From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:00:53 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
Fred Cisin writes:
>
>OB_CC: Where can you get plywood that matches the Northstar Horizon?
>The "home" stores don't even have the right thickness!
>
That grade is for real carpentry not home despot wonder projects.
The stuff used was real 3/4" finish grade with what appears to be oak
veneer (mine is). The originals were fairly tough veneer and well
fitted. Mitered corners and two cleats in the corner for a bit of
stiffness. The front edge has a routed slot on the inside top and
two sides to slide over the front pannel plate, The slot is 9/64
maybe 5/32" wide. Most of the early machines came with the dark
stain wood but I'd like to find a metal one (less RFI).
One of my NS* Horizon is wood cover and the other is missing the
cover so I have a Lexan cover plate to allow airflow.
Allison
I've recently come into ownership of some Seagate
97229 1.2GB IPI interface hard drives. I just don't
have any equipment that can talk to IPI drives. So, I
was hoping to be able to convert these drives to work
on SMD. Since these look and seem almost identical to
the CDC/Seagate/Imprimis drives that I use already, I
thought it would be a simple interface board swap.
Granted, I don't have any 1.2gig drives, mine are 9720
8xx mb drives.
So, here's what I tried. I tried swapping both boards
(with believed good boards from a dead disk 8xx
drive). The main logic board from the 8xxmb drive fits
just fine - one of the connectors underneath has fewer
pins, but it mates up. I was hoping that this would
just mean the extra heads on the HDA would simply be
unused. Wishful thinking I know, but it doesn't work
at all - the power supply won't come on - this must
cause a dead short.
So, tried swapping back the original logic and
interface boards, and the drive spins up fine, comes
ready and seems OK. I swapped in the control/status
panel from the 8xx mb drive - this works just fine,
and the one I swapped in has the full LCD and keypad -
which work properly.
Tried swapping just the interface boards, this time
the drive displays a Fault on powerup, and while I can
get it to spin like this, it never comes ready. I even
tried swapping the firmware ROMs between the boards,
still doesn't work.
Now, I am imagining here that the incompatibilities in
parts are likely because I am using boards and parts
>from a different capacity of drive - I know that the
logic from a smaller drive would never work properly
on a larger one, I was just hoping that it might let
me use some of the surfaces. I don't have an SMD
interface 1.2gb drive to try this with - so I figured
I would ask - has anyone changed the interface of one
of these Sabre drives before? I can't imagine how the
HDA would be different between a 1.2gb IPI and a 1.2GB
SMD, but you never know. I've had luck before swapping
controllers between IDE and SCSI drives, and
occasional luck going between drives of slightly
different capacity.
What machines used IPI disks? I know that an IPI
controller was available for Sun3 VME based machines
(of which I have only ONE). Don't see anything listed
in the field guide about a qbus or unibus IPI
controller. What about larger Vaxen?
-Ian
> Interesting - they do state: "If you still have this item please
> contact Government Liquidation within 19 working days to coordinate
> the return of this property." So what happens if you do not 'have'
> this item any more.
This is exactly what End Use Certificates are for. They track the item
until it is destroyed.
In some cases of the past, with no EUC and the military knocking on
the door of someone who scraps an item, the result generally is not
horrible - they usually just want the important parts.
Extremely rarely does one get the Black Helicopter treatment.
--
Will
>From: Al Kossow <aek at spies.com>
>Subject: warning about dealing with Government Liquidation
>
>Apparently, G L sells items that in fact weren't supposed to be sold,
>forcing the buyers to return them!
>
>It only reimburses you for the cost of the item, not the shipping.
>
>Be VERY careful about what you buy through them!
>
>Read the fine print on the government as well as GL sales site agreement.
>
>This is the second incident like this I've heard about in the past week.
Hmmmmm
'Sorry guv, it turned out it wasn't what I wanted so I dumpstered it'
'terribly sorry old chap, I've already sold it on'
Or any other excuse you care to think up.
That's really lousy behaviour - they can't change the rules after you've
bought it, surely? And if they're going to add insult to injury by refusing
to pay shipping then they can hardly expect cooperation...
Mike
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Has anyone on the list emulated one of the old vector scan displays on a
modern LCD Screen? Did you go through the raster scan logic or interface
directly to the LCD panel electronics? Is anybody working on this idea that
you know of?
It seems like some of the DEC system enthusiasts would be thinking about
this since the original Vector devices are so rare.
I have a belief that this is an idea that a lot of list members have thought
about; but has anyone put the idea into actual hardware?
Billy
Hey Sridhar,
is that a DEC 7000 or a VAX 7000 on one of your pictures ? Just out of couriosity...
Regards,
Pierre
>
>
> Most of the hardware hasn't been cabled up yet, and the hardware that's
> actually running isn't pictured because it's my network core and I won't
> put pictures of it on the internet for security reasons... BUT...
>
> Here are pictures of my machine room. It's a work in progress, but it
> shows what I've done to reinforce the floor.
>
> Because I've *decidedly* exceeded the floor loading capacity.
>
> Peace... Sridhar
>
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>I guess you're new enough here not to have heards that I don't own a
>scanner, annyhting to connect it to, or the nexessary eqipemnet to
>maintain the scanenr and machine-to-connect-it-to.
Ah, ok, sorry.
Anyway, here (http://www.hparchive.com/bench_briefs.htm) I found a few
documents with almost all hp parts cross-reference.
Roberto
Hi,
Urgh... my dial-up ISP of about 4 years has recently had a change in policy. Instead of a monthly payment of ?14.99, Boltblue.com have decided to make it free + local telephone charges (to telephone company).
This means paying Boltblue nothing and a bill of ?400 to BT :( What a con, are they trying to force me onto broadband??
Gonna go and search online for another dial-up ISP that does the monthly charge thing.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this??
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Yes, just like all those other Heath(Robinson)kits produced about that
time.
Ros
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 16 June 2007 22:33
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Strange VT50 Decscope
>
> Hi
> I vaguely remember a rumour about a cheap kit terminal to go with
> the Heathkit LSI-11.
> The boards are that paper based stuff you see in consumer electronics.
The thing that struck me about the PCBs in the VT5x was that they're
single-sided with a _lot_ of wire links.
-tony
Ah yes trees..
In the UK we have lots of individual trees, a fair few woods and
only a few forests.
If we go back to after the last ice age (about 10,000 years ago) the
reformed land (The land bridge to Europe went)
reverted to Northern forest modified by what my college tutor described
as 'Mexican bathwater'. Insofar as the gulf stream originates off the
coast of Mexico and is warm.
This has the effect of changing the mix of native trees from mainly
pines to favour more broad leaved species. Oak, Ash, Willow etc. The
only thing that prevents most of lowland UK reverting to mixed forest is
the presence of man.
If some disaster whiped out the human population in the UK then within
fifty years it would be back to forest.
Rod Smallwood
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of woodelf
Sent: 17 June 2007 01:14
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Pictures of My Machine Room (So Far)
Teo Zenios wrote:
> Quite a bit of the wood they cut is stuff they planted a long time
> ago. The really old trees tend to be in national parks and they do not
> get cut down as far as I know. If you have never been to the US there
> are huge areas with nothing but trees, we have 300M people but there
> is plenty of unused land still (unlike old Europe). Not sure why we
> even import trees from Canada, must be cheaper I guess.
I am still not sure why Canada imports Trees too. Ikea comes to mind.
All we have around here is the cheap MFB stuff.
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