Sounds like a good idea. How do I do that?
Rod
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From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Sridhar Ayengar
Sent: 01 June 2007 01:22
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Bringing the VAX 4000-300 back to life.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
> Boot er no but as it seems as the system spent some or all of its life
> in the insurance industry I'm not surprised the disks have been wiped.
> Ok so next move. I'm going to try and make a VMS 6.2 bootable tape on
> the -200 as the -300 has a TK70.
They both have ethernet, why don't you just boot the 300 from the 200
using MOP?
Peace... Sridhar
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 03:03:17 +0100
> From: "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Apple /// Power Supply
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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> reply-type=original
>
> Hi,
>
>> _If_ that PSU was easily available, I could agree with this. But
>> it isn't. It's likely to take considerable time and effort to track
>> one down, I think....
>
> I don't know what the situation is in the US, but here in the UK
> I've come
> across exactly *ONE* Apple /// in some 22 years of collecting....
>
> I'd put his chances of sourcing a working replacement PSU these
> days at
> ZERO.
>
>
> TTFN - Pete.
Actually I have a spare PSU, here in the UK, but sorry I'm keeping it
for my own Apple ///s. These machines were so tightly engineered as
regards FCC requirements that there always seemed to be a problem
with getting the heat out and stopping the electronics shorting out
against the case. Particularly the RAM daughter board at full
capacity. The real time clock is a bit of a nightmare to get adjusted
properly too. I don't mean to within spec, I mean to run so I don't
have to adjust it every week, which is what I had to do with them
when they were brand new. By contrast the 5MB or 10MB Profile hard
drive sits in a box about five times bigger than is needed. It was a
real luxury after doing the floppy shuffle for three quarters of an
hour compiling Pascal programs, though upgrading to three floppy
drives saved most of the arm work.
Are logic diagrams available for the Apple /// now? If I remember
right, even as dealers/service providers and hardware/software
developers we were not allowed logic diagrams for the A///. That's
where the rot started and we officially had to do module replacement,
though we still replaced IC's when they had blown craters in the top
of them, and were still able to buy AC power switches and such like
>from Apple.
Must drag them out from my brother's loft some time and see if either
of them still work. Hope they're OK, they are stored above the cold
water tank in their original boxes. Fortunately the loft is heated so
should be OK.
Roger Holmes.
There's so little of it left, mores the pity.
I wonder if the guy was sold it as a rare item (which it is) without
being told a lot of it was missing.
Rod Smallwood
The DecCollector
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of woodelf
Sent: 01 June 2007 20:55
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Anyone for a RELLY expensive 11/780 (UK)??!!
Rod Smallwood wrote:
> "Where have all the disk drives gone? ..."
> "Long time passing"
> "Where have all the disk drives gone? ..."
> "Long time ago..."
> " To the scrap man ... Every one... "
>
> "Where have all the power supplies gone etc. etc."
Chuckle ... I have Bod Dylan on the CD ... so by luck I had the music
to go with lyrics. :)
"Where have all the disk drives gone? ..."
"Long time passing"
"Where have all the disk drives gone? ..."
"Long time ago..."
" To the scrap man ... Every one... "
"Where have all the power supplies gone etc. etc."
What a plonker!! (British expression)
Rod Smallwood
DecCollector
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of James
Sent: 31 May 2007 23:21
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Anyone for a RELLY expensive 11/780 (UK)??!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180125971585&fromMa
keTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:middle:uk
Optimistic is an under statement :-)
Someone on the list has (had?) a few. I can't remember who, check the
archives.
Devon
>Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:52:37 -0400 (EDT)
>From: bpope at wordstock.com (Bryan Pope)
>Subject: Re: Burroughs ICON
>
>And thusly were the wise words spake by Chris M
>>
>> Anyone have one? They were popular in Canada (maybe
>> made there??). I want it.
>>
>
>Ontario to be exact, where I used them in high school. Their OS was
>QNX, another Canadian company. :) I have yet to see in available,
>though.. :(
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bryan
Hi,
>>....Repairing a switching power supply is one the last
>>things I would want to do.
>
> Why?
Personally I've never had any luck repairing switch mode PSUs
either....obviously there's some hole in my understanding of them....
Actually, I have managed to repair a couple; but that was when I did a City
& Guilds course in electronic repair at college (I was bored....) and had a
full schematic and circuit description to work with.
But going in blind? <shudder>
TTFN - Pete.
Does anyone have them?
I have a WDXT-150 board with a WD93024 drive. I suspect that the
drive is dead, as it doesn't do anything, including spinning up, but I'd
like to be able to run diags on it if any exist.
Doc
>
>Subject: Re: Hazeltine 1400 info?
> From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:53:15 -0600
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>
>In article <3629638E-1D52-4A9A-B23C-2639BEE62C5E at neurotica.com>,
> Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:
>
>> On May 30, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Richard wrote:
>> > I just purchased a Hazeltine 1400 terminal from ebay. This terminal
>> > apparently has no lower case, so it seems like quite an oldie.
>>
>> Cool! I saw that, and would've chased it if I weren't out of
>> money at the moment. I sat in front of a 1420, and later a 1500, for
>> a long time many years ago.
>
>It appears to be in good condition too. Do you happen to know what
>year this would have been manufactured? Is it one of the Hazeltines
>with core display memory that remembers the last thing that was
>displayed after you turn it off?
NO core, that was the 1000/1100/1200 series. Those were early 1970s
as I used a 1200 on BOCES LYRICS TOPS-10 system in '72.
The 1400 series was after the 1500 series and was effectively a cost
reduced (cheaper to build and sell) terminal. The 1400 was circa
1976-78 or so.
Allison
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