test-drb October 2008

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Looking for AT&T 3B1/UNIXPC/PC7300 software

by rescue＠hawkmountain.net

Looking for diskette images of the OS, development, tcp/ip/ethernet, diagnostic diskette, etc.... -- Curt

16 years, 2 months

"scrap" auction...

by Nick.Jarmany＠quixant.co.uk

>> Anybody recognize the board in this lot: >> >> 120314777595 >> >> transputer maybe? I hope the bidder isn't really going >> to reclaim the obvious "pounds" of gold on it. > >The logo on top of each post looks like the Fairchild logo. The numbers >suggest a date of 1976, but it looks *very* high tech for something of that >vintage. > >Alexis. I'm certainly no expert on mainframes, but I do recognise a Fujitsu logo when I see one. So, my money is on this being a board out of a Fujitsu mainframe computer. Chips like that, with cooling towers etc.... Maybe ECL logic? I remember many years ago visiting Fujitsu's main development location. The whole of the basement was constructed as a museum of all Fujitsu major products over the years, including tons of computer stuff. I remember marvelling at PCBs with 20+ signal layers and integral fluid cooling etc, in the days when most PCBs were only double sided or 4 layers at best. Fascinating stuff! I suspect the winner of the auction has got himself something that would have cost major $$$ when new. Nick Jarmany

16 years, 2 months

Seeking SunOS 4.1.4

by jeffj＠panix.com

replying to > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> > Subject: Re: Seeking SunOS 4.1.4 A friend had a beowulf cluster of IPXs but all running BSD. > I share your IPX affinity. I had one on my desk for a very long > time, when they were state of the art. Wonderful little machine. > And amazingly zippy, from a time when software wasn't so poorly- > written and bloated. I too was very satisfied with the Sun IPX when it was new, particularly with Sun's Answerbook (far better than any other online manual system I used at that time) and programmer's workbench development system. I got to know and like the S-Bus when writing a device driver for an SDLC card. I still remember the phonecall requesting assistance with my device driver. It wouldn't work on the Sun 4m processor. It turns out the processor delays bus writes in order to share the bus with other processors, so I had to add a magic .asm spell to flush the writes. I would've figured that mapping the I/O registers into the memory map would've implied write-thru. -- jeffj

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Tektronix 4108 terminal?

by legalize＠xmission.com

Hi, I recently got a Tektronix 4170 and terminal from ebay. The terminal is a 4108, which I can't find in the 1985 catalog that introduces the 4170. The next catalog I have is 1989 and that lists no 41xx products. The enclosure for the terminal is very similar to a 4105, except that the finish is black and not that green-gray that is on most Tektronix gear of the period. The 4105 has a small cover on the back where you can add ROM to the terminal to enhance its functions. In this 4108, there is a cover in a similar area of the case, but it covers a set of 4 expansion slots. In my terminal, two of the slots are occupied. One looks to be memory and the other looks to be control. Had the tektronix terminal "mainframe" evolved by this time to be a substrate into which processing and memory cards were inserted to round out the system? I haven't opened the monitor case to look at it in detail. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

16 years, 2 months

"scrap" aution...

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> 120314777595 Looks like Amdahl 470 style packaging.

16 years, 2 months

"scrap" auction...

by tonym＠compusource.net

>-----Original Message----- >From: Paxton Hoag innfoclassics at gmail.com >Sent 10/13/2008 4:23:32 PM >To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk at classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: "scrap" auction... > > Anybody recognize the board in this lot: > > [ebay item #] 120314777595 > Question of the day: Why is it listed under "Harley-Davidson" collectibles ?

16 years, 2 months

Need help with dead 11/23+, FIXED :)

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

2048KW Start? That must be a really old set of proms on that 11/23+ The newer 11/23+ proms will give you a 9-step memory test, and a much more interactive menu. Or do you have an MXV11 or BDV11 that you're using instead of the on-board boot proms? T

16 years, 2 months

Looking for AT&T 3B1/UNIXPC/PC7300 software

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 1:59 -0500 10/10/08, Curt wrote: >Looking for diskette images of the OS, development, >tcp/ip/ethernet, diagnostic diskette, etc.... > >-- Curt I have one, with a fair amount of stuff on its hard drive. It's buried and I won't be able to get to it for at least a month, probably after Christmas. Please ping me again in December, and I'll try to bump it up the priority. I'm going to feel very stupid if the hard drive won't come up when I get to it... -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

16 years, 2 months

Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic Computers )

by RodSmallwood＠mail.ediconsulting.co.uk

I remember taking the first Apple Lisa in the UK to be demonstrated on Tomorrows World. They had me in the studio as the program went out live. I sat on an unused display block about three feet off camera in case of problems. Presenters: Kiren Prendeville (photographic memory), Maggie Philbin (very nervous), Judith Hann( Nice lady - brought me a coffee!!) Rod Smallwood -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull Sent: 08 October 2008 08:22 To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic Computers ) On 08/10/2008 01:47, Andrew Burton wrote: > I remember Tomorrows World (and various presenters... Philippa > Forrester, Judith someone, Howard Stableford etc.) and having various > things demonstrated on it. Judith Hann. I don't remember Philippa Forrester being on it but I do remember Maggie Philbin. Perhaps the flashing-square software was in the earlier era of Raymond Baxter and James Burke (which I also remember). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

16 years, 2 months

Mona Lisa

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Does anyone here have the source code for the program (FORTRAN?) which > produced the large Mona Lisa printout on the 1403? I may have it on a couple of tapes with line printer art that have been given to me. The one I'm looking for is the one with Spock holding a model of the Enterprise...

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