I'm in Yorkshire, but would travel anywhere in the UK
for a vintage show :) Outside London would be a lot
cheaper I would guess, also travelling into London is
not cheap these days - especially if you want to
exibit
and need to bring a car/van.
Manchester would seem a good place - as it has some
interesting exibits at the Science Museum too -
including
the SSEM (Manchester Baby) of course - a working
recreation
of the original - now that's vintage!
Ian.
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All:
Does anyone know if scans of the Tandy newsletter ?The Whimper? exists
on-line? I did some Googling tonight and came up mostly with stuff on
Jessica Tandy whimpering :-) I?ve been told these newsletters had some good
T2k info in them but I don?t see them on-line anywhere.
Specifically, I?m fishing for information on getting MFM hard drives
working on Tandy 2000 machines. I have two machines with to seemingly bad
Tandon TM502 drives. I saw another thread from last month that complained
about the poor quality of the Tandon drives, so it?s probably bad drives. I
have an ST225 drive that I want to run externally as a test but I haven?t
been able to locate a manual on the T2k HD controller nor the external drive
(25-1025 I think). I don?t want to connect it blindly before I?m confident
the controller is setup properly. Irrational fear maybe but I want to
proceed methodically.
Any info appreciated. Thanks.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
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Hi
I have the system unit for a Victor V286C PC manufactured in
1991. Its in really nice condition.
Keyboard and mouse are no problem. However the display is a different
matter. It has a nine pin
display connector which would make it a CGA ,MGA or Hercules output.
Anybody any ideas as to where I might find a matching monitor?
Rod Smallwood
Hi,
>> there is static on the crt's face when you power up?
>>If there's no provision for an AC plug, then you have
>>your answer as to where the power comes from. Didn't
>
> Indeed.
As an aside to this, the Sirius' monitor (like that of the later Apricots)
has a thin sheet of fabric stretched across the front of it (secured by the
front bezel) so there is no noticable static charge on the screen when it's
powered up.
Kinda puts paid to the quick and easy method of determining if it's getting
power.... :-(
TTFN - Pete.
> I know the Acorn
> Archimedes runs RiscOS, but what else? I'm not sure
> that the Acorn was ever even sold in the US.
As far as I know it was not. My first exposure to the Acorn
machines were those brought over in '87 for Apple's first
attempt at a RISC Apple II (Moebius).
I never saw a RISCOS machine sold here.
I've found a few of them on eBay for CHM. Shipping from the
UK is painful. I've also had an unusually high percentage of
them never arrive.
>
>Subject: Re: newbie building a scratch-built computer
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:41:57 -0700
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 4 Aug 2007 at 4:18, Ensor wrote:
>
>> <GRIN> What, like a logic probe...?
>
>I figured if the OP was using an LED as a logic probe, then he might
>not want to throw his filthy lucre after a commercial probe. It's
>easy enough to toss one together out of hellbox detritus.
>
>> I don't actually have a logic analyser myself (annoyingly), and tend to
>> reach for my logic probe long before I resort to digging out my 'scope. I
>> find mine indispensible.
>
>Same here; rather than set up a scope just to see if a line is
>wiggling, a logic probe is much easier.
on my bench I have a several multimeters [digital and analog], scope,
a pc based logic analyser and a logic proble. the onder they are used
generally puts the logic analyser last right after the scope.
>> If the OP is in the UK, then Maplins do a nice one for ?15 (which is less
>> than I paid for mine back in 1980).
>
>Radio Shack used to offer one for a reasonable price, but no
>longer...
I have one of those and it works ok, I also have one that responds
to really fast pulses.
Allison
RE: trademarks
I stand corrected: Hans Franke acquired EU trademarks on "Vintage Computer
Festival" some time ago.
I imagine these would extend into the UK in some fashion, but then I'm not
an international lawyer (or otherwise).
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So, I've been trying for a few days to get my VAX 7000/640 (currently
with only one processor, so a 610 I guess) to MOP boot into a VMS
cluster.
I'm running OpenVMS hosted off SIMH, and have tried both 7.2 and 7.3,
and have successfully booted my VAX 4000/100 off the setup. I've also
successfully booted the firmware update utility (LFU) and the
file "ISL_LVAX_073.SYS" that comes on the install CD, through MOP.
However, when I try to do a mop boot, the system just halts and says
boot failure:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> b -fl 0,0,0 exa0
Initializing...
F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE #
A M . . . . . . P TYP
o + . . . . . . + ST1
. . . . . . . . B BPD
o + . . . . . . + ST2
. . . . . . . . B BPD
+ + . . . . . . + ST3
. . . . . . . . B BPD
+ . . . . . + . . + . . . + C0 XMI +
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3
. A0 . . . . . . . ILV
. 512 . . . . . . . 512MB
Firmware Rev = V4.3-4842 SROM Rev = V3.1-0 SYS SN = AB25002CX0
Booting...
Connecting to boot device exa0
Created device: exa0.0.0.1.0
Attempting MOP boot.
Requesting MOP Assistance Volunteer.
MOP Assistance Volunteer found.
Loading...
...
Load complete!
Image size: 133241
Host name: SIMV73
Host address: aa-00-04-00-06-04
bootstrap code read in
base = 154000, start = 0
boot device name = exa0.0.0.1.0
boot flags 0,0,0
boot device type = 69
controller ID = a
unit number = 0
node ID = 0
channel = 0
slot = 1
hose = 0
jumping to bootstrap at 154000
CPU:0 Console entry reason: HALT instruction in kernel mode
Entry PC: 006B6368 Entry PSL:041F0600
>>> boot failure
---------------------------------------------------------------------
I've tried it omitting the -flags part, and with -fl 1, but they all
give the same error.
Anyone have any useful hints? Or, another VAX 7000 to try repeating my
(failing) experiment on?
Thanks,
Pat
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