test-drb April 2008

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by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Hi, Looking for a 501-1443 or similar framebuffer to fit a Sun 3/80. This uses the P4 bus. Its not the same as a 3/60 cg4 framebuffer unfortunately - I think the main difference is the position of the video sockets, but there may be others... Good price paid, or can trade for other items (Sun or DEC). Cheers Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

16 years, 1 month

PDP 11 owners in Canberra, Australia

by doug＠stillhq.com

It is now official... Having now got my RL01 drive in my PDP-11/34 to seek, and read a sector full of zeros, I would love to know if there are any PDP 11 users in Canberra, who would be able to load up a bootable RT11 image onto a RL01 disk pack. Heck, anybody within a couple of hundred km would also be cool.. Having known data on a disk pack would be very handy. Thanks, Doug

16 years, 1 month

19" rack blanking panels

by James＠jdfogg.com

> Looking for various parts to complete a 19" rack > of various vintage servers :) In particular I'd > like to get some blanking plates (any size) in > black if possible, cable tidies, and empty 1U/2U > or larger server boxes. > > Anything considered - I'm in the UK It might be easier to go to a metal shop, autobody shop or Heating/Ventilating/Air Conditioning shop. Any shop like that can make panels to your exact size in a few minutes (aluminum works best). You can have a body shop paint them (wait until they are spraying your color anyways or it gets expensive) or you can use spray paint cans.

16 years, 1 month

FS: QBUS boards, 4K memory boards, Sharp PC-3000 items

by listmailgoeshere＠gmail.com

Hi list, I have the following for sale: 1) 4 * QBUS board: DEC "A/D FOR 1103 5012094E-P2" DEC "4 CHANNEL D/A A6001 5012107 DP4" DEC "PROG REAL TIME CLOCK M7952 5012108B" DEC "M9060 5017109" load board 2) 2 boards marked "4K MEMORY BOARD FOR 118 NICOLET INSTRUMENT CORP 000-7488-04 10/14/75" Each one contains 40 ICs marked "TMS 4060JL BP7901" and then 15 chips' worth of 74-series logic. One of these boards seems to have been used for spares or something, as it's missing all its resistors, capacitors and one of the TTL ICs. The connector on these is an 86-way 0.1" edge connector. 3) The original box and manual, plus original Sharp (still boxed) Laplink cable, for a Sharp PC-3000. There is a PC-3000 *in* the box, and you can have that too, but it's got a smashed screen. Probably still works other than that, no promises though. There's also the (likely unobtainium these days) adaptor from the PC-3000's mini-serial port to an actual DE9 connector. Please make an offer by private mail if you want any of this. I'll ship anywhere, but you pay the shipping. Items are located in West Yorkshire, UK. Ed.

16 years, 1 month

19" rack blanking panels

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Hi Austin, That would be great. Thanks. The blanking panels and other 19" rack bits seem quite pricey, especially if you need a lot of them which you typically do when building up a rack. All the best Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

16 years, 1 month

19" rack blanking panels

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Hi, Looking for various parts to complete a 19" rack of various vintage servers :) In particular I'd like to get some blanking plates (any size) in black if possible, cable tidies, and empty 1U/2U or larger server boxes. Anything considered - I'm in the UK Many thanks Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

16 years, 1 month

WANTED: Victor 9000 keyboard

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

I received a Victor 9000 with monitor and lots of software, but no keyboard. If someone has one to spare, I'd appreciate it! Now, what can I do with all of these extra software copies? Steve. --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

16 years, 1 month

PDP-8 "Dumprest" experience?

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I am just beginning to use Dave Gesswein's DumpRest from ftp://ftp.pdp8online.com/software/dumprest/. I successfully restored TD8-E DECtapes with it. That enabled me to install OS/8 on RK05 etc. I also (roughly) integrated the dumprest utilities into OS/8 (I can start them and they reboot OS/8 back to the monitor). And they now use a separate high speed rs232 port to connect to my PC (as my kermit does). When I use restrk05, I always get a checksum error. I just have read one RK05 disk - three times. What I get is always the same checksum error printout with the same checksum. And the generated files are identical as well. I can also successfully run them in SIMH. So what's wrong? Does anybody has a clue? Is that a known problem? Best wishes, Philipp :-)

16 years, 1 month

HPIB Tape Drive Interface Protocol

by steerex＠ccvn.com

Hey, I have an ancient copy of the HPIB protocol specifications for 1/2 tape drives. I was going to send it to bitsavers for archival and re-distribution but, due to the number of errors and unreadability of the doc, I decided to go ahead and make the obvious editorial changes. I have placed a HTML version of the first draft at: http://www.steerex.com/hpib/7980_protocol At this time, there are a couple of sub-sections that are still missing. I'll add them in the coming days. I'll also be adding meaningful content, programming examples, tutorials, and HPIB pointers in the near future. Hope someone finds this stuff useful. See ya, Steve Robertson steerex [at] ccvn [dot] com

16 years, 1 month

Looking for specific PDP-8 MAINDECs

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi Folks, I have recently indexed my collection of PDP-8 software listings etc. You can find the list here: http://pdp8.hachti.de?docs I cannot find binaries for the following listings: Product Code: MAINDEC-08-DHKMC-A-D Product Name: PDP-8E Extended Memory Address Test (EA8E) Date Created: April 1975 Maintainer : Diagnostic Group Author : Vernon Frey, D.Macomber Product Code: MAINDEC-12-D8CD-D Product Name: KW12A Clock Test Date Created: December 1, 1971 Maintainer : Diagnostic Group Author : Raymond Shoop Product Code: MAINDEC-12-D8LA Product Name: A.I.P Instruction Test 1 Date Created: June 1, 1971 Maintainer : Diagnostic Group Author : Raymond Shoop Product Code: MAINDEC-08-DHRKC-E-D Product Name: RK8E Data Reliability Test Date Created: April 15, 1975 Maintainer : Diagnostic Group Author : John Vrobel Product Code: MAINDEC-8E-D8AB-D(D) Product Name: DK8E Clocks Diagnostic Date Created: June 1, 1971 Maintainer : Diagnostic Programming Group Author : John Vrobel Product Code: MAINDEC-8E-D6CA-D Product Name: VC8-E Display Diagnostic Date Created: June 21, 1971 Maintainer : Diagnostic Ggroup Author : Patrick Coyne Replaces : MAINDEC-8E-D3AB Product Name: TD8E DECTape Diagnostic Date Created: November 1, 1972 Maintainer : Diagnostic Group Author : E.Steinberger/B.Hansen Product Code: DEC-08-LHAA-D Product Name: "HELP" Loader Date Created: April 1, 1967 Maintainer : Software Services Group Product Code: Digital-8-5-U-Sym Product Name: Binary Punch (ASR33 or 75A) Date Created: March 1, 1965 Product Code: MAINDEC-08-D4A0-D Product Name: PDP-8, 8/I Memory Parity Checkerboard Date Created: May 14, 1968 Maintainer : Diagnostics Group If anybody has one or more of them, please send it to me! But please be aware that I am looking for the *exact* versions :-) Many thanks and best wishes, Philipp :-)

16 years, 1 month

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