What is it? I have a BASIC manual (somewhere) for this
machine. Durn must be rarer then the Vicki.
And on that note, which units would classify as the
top 5 or 10 rarest portables. No goofy handheld
things, the largest majority of which aren't even vintage.
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On 8/21/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> The price is not insane, ELI is a legitimate DEC reseller who just
> happens to have an eBay presence. A top of the line VAX can still go
> for big $$$'s as there are those looking to stay on real hardware,
Interesting, I didn't know the line went on that long (a list I found
put that model's introduction at 1996.)
At work we had a VaxStation 4000 that was still being used for
compiling certain code. Instead of relying on keeping it going, we
spent the big $ on the Charon Vax emulator. It's working fine, but I
have to wonder if SimH would have done the job as well :)
--
jht
Hello,
excuse me for this e-mail, but some years ago I had downloaded the CD
image you provided of the item in subject. Now for an accident I deleted
the files and would like to have them again but the link, after about
five years, disappeared :(
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=cctech&a=2003-04&m=157390
Do you happen to still have these files?
Thanks!
--
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| / |__/ Nickname: FIAT1100D - ICQ: 53943994 Ritmo S75 __ ///
| \__|__\ Home page: http://www.gratteri.tk forever! \\\///
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IBM PS/2 Model 9595 chassis -- an 8595 chassis won't do
Syskonnect Microchannel FDDI cards
Any turbochannel cards (PMAZC, PMAD, PMAG-C -D -E -F, etc)
DEC Star coupler
CI cables
CI for any bus
BA441 chassis (I need four)
BA431 chassis
MS690 Memory
DEFQA
Cab kit for DEMFA
MS02-CA Memory
DEFTA
RA73 (did they make an RA74?)
ChipChat sound card
Roland CM-500
CIPCA
In addition, I will need two racks soon.
Thanks.
Peace... Sridhar
On 8/21/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At the same time this is the first photograph I've ever seen of one
> of these systems. Somewhere I have the golden egg describing it.
>
> Zane
Hah, the price is insane. Love those ebay "liquidators." Was that
the last ever VAX?
Hi, Jules
-------------- Original message from Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>: --------------
> g-wright at att.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a couple of these and need some information.
> > These are NCR mini tower servers with a 68000 cpu.
The mother board says mini tower on it. model is listed as a 3450
the mother board has 530xxx number on it with a 1984 date.
the demenions are 24"H x 24"D x 5"W
The manuals all cover tower, mimi tower and tower 32 ????
>
> I've not heard them called "mini" before, but I think the regular Tower 400
> was a 68000 machine with ST412 disk interface (the 'MSC' board) and a HPSIO-8
> board for serial.
sounds real close to the same. could be marketing here
that changes the model
> I've got a 700 model - '030 CPU, ECC memory, dual HPSIO-16 boards, Ethernet,
> HPMSC SCSI controller, system standby/suspend etc. They're not blindingly
> fast (Ethernet response is *really* sluggish), but they're nice enough
> machines in a "real computer" kind of way.
>
> > a Qic type Cartridge tape and comm board with 8 TTY ports
> > (all 15 pin) and 2 CPU ports (1 DB9 and 1 DB15).
>
> The DB15 is the console. The DB9 is for a remote diagnostic modem link (I'm
> not sure whether you can get a fully-functional console up on it, and I think
> it's stuck at 2400 baud)
>
> > The manuals don't say anything about the console port or
> > pin outs.
>
> Console pinouts:
>
> 1 TxD out
> 2 RTS out
> 3 DSR in
> 4 DTR out
> 9 RxD in
> 10 CTS in
> 11 sig gnd
> 12 DCD in
>
did not get a chance to try this tonight. Are the ports hard
wired for flow control ???
It always helps to look down the right hole i was just tring to
get anything to work. what looks right is not always true.
> Hazy memory says that it might expect 9600 baud, 7E1 by default. I might have
> the jumper settings for the serial board that you have - I can take a look if
> you want.
>
> I think the regular terminal lines might use the same pinouts on your machine
> (my 700 has 37-way connectors with four ports over each connector).
>
> > So does anyone have a boot tape
>
> Afraid not... I'd like to hear from anyone who has them too. I've got raw
> drive image backups of my machine, but it'd be nice to know that the install
> media was out there. I think there are two flavours of boot tape
> (unfortunately for me) - one that'll work with 400-6x0 machines, and one
> that's specific to the 700 (I've not sure about the 750 and 800).
>
> Note the if you have a BNC connector toward the bottom of the machine at the
> back, it's something to do with the power fail detection circuitry. It's not a
> Ethernet network connector and plugging it into one would result in
> interesting things happening :-)
>
thanks for the warning
> cheers
>
> Jules
Is there a listing for the 5 leds along the top of the mother
board. When it is in the run position and it get through
selftest only the Run LED stays stays on.
- Jerry
Hi,
I'm writing in respnse to a post you made on
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2006-August/066119.html
The SPOT card that you have is an interface card for a Scantak-2c Single
pass 24 bit Flatbed Color Scanner that was designred for windows 95.
The card wonlt do you much good without the scanner, as I'm pretty sure it's
a proproetary interface.
I hope you find this helpful.
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Hello, I've got a VAXstation 3100 (Thanks, Peter Coghlan!) that I
recently acquired while on holiday in Ireland. There is a problem I'm
having with it - the 8-plane colour display controller is giving me an
error message on startup:
?? 4 00D0 0016.0052
When I run test 4 on the Chevron prompt I get:
>>> test 4
4?..
84 FAIL
and when I try test 50 I get
(...)
?? 8PLN 0016.0052
(...)
Does anyone know what could be ailing my new toy? The machine will run
perfectly using the mono adapter, though VMS 7.3 will crash hard when
trying to access the device (starting the X server).
Is there a list of these error messages, somewhere?
Thanks,
Tore
I picked this up at a hamfest last week. It may be about 10 years old :)
http://tinyurl.com/2vprxy
I need to start the long search for info and to get it going. Anyone
recognize it? It's made by NT Systems of Melbourne, FL, who appear to
be gone. Ports of the back suggest it hooked to the PC keyboard port
(AT-style DIN5,) but it could as easily have used a custom interface
card. Other ports are: power, keyboard, RS232/Modem, DB25 for rudder
pedals (marked "This is not a serial port,") There's no model number
that I can find. The gauges are fake, but they are surrounded by
membrane buttons. The yoke moves in and out on a hydraulic shaft.
The only thing I've found so far via Google is a Flight Sim 98 DOS
driver for some product of theirs, not necessarily that one.
Next stop, the flight sim forums, but thought I'd start here.
--
jht
On 8/21/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> I'd guess it is specifically for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Quite likely, since there wasn't much else for simulation on the PC
back then. I somehow missed the label on the bottom last time I
flipped it over. Unfortunately it was paper and most of it has rubbed
off, so no model#. It was made in 1995, though.
Any the power connector cracked off as soon as I touched it :(
