I will be going up to Dallas sometime after the Memorial Day holidays to
pick up a complete Cray YMP (1988 on topic) system and need help loading it
all on the truck I will be renting. Is there anyone in the area that could
help out with this? Please email me off list and let me know what's a good
date(s) for you. I hope to do it over a weekend so that no one would have
take off from work.
Thanks for looking,
John
HI,
I found this pack in a pile that I collected yesterday. It is a blue colour
(instead of the usual light grey), and has a label detailing expected read
voltages and times for inner and outer tracks on each surface.
Is it some sort of diagnostic disk?
Regards
Jim.
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I've had a 66Mhz BeBox motherboard and assorted support hardware sitting
in static-proof bags for about two years, all that I'm lacking to get a
working BeBox (minus the "Box" portion, since I don't have the chassis)
is the I/O board -- without it I have no mouse and I can't get through
the installer :).
I figure it's a long shot that anyone has a spare I/O board, but does
anyone have any schematics for this thing so that I can at least wire up
the mouse?
Thanks,
Josh
. and, although I use RL02s all the time, this is the first time it's
happened to me. The odd thing is, the pack was clean and in good shape - in
fact, the same pack had been used within the last week without any problems.
I knew right away when I spun up the pack that something wasn't quite right
- it made an unusual noise when heads loaded. Not a horrible screeching or
even the metallic "tinging" sound associated with a crash; more like a soft
"swish" noise that I hadn't heard before. It wasn't very loud at all; if I
hadn't been right in front of the drive I wouldn't have heard it over all
the fans.
I spun it down and checked it out - the platter has a really obvious scuff
mark ring around the upper surface where the head touched down, and the
upper head in the drive had a lot of oxide on it. Surprisingly the lower
head also had some oxide on it too, although there are no obvious crash
marks on the lower surface of the platter. Fortunately the damage on the
upper surface didn't go all the way down to bare metal, and I figured the
heads might actually be OK. I cleaned both of them with some Texwipes and
alcohol and all the oxide came off, so I found another pack (one that I
wouldn't care too much if it crashed too :-), mounted it and gave it a try.
The drive appears to be OK despite its adventures, so I'll count myself as
lucky this time. The original crashed pack is a write off as far as I'm
concerned. Maybe I'll make a clock out of it.
I'm really curious though as to what could have gone wrong. The original
pack had been used before, and recently too, without any problems and when
they're not mounted the packs are stored inside plastic garbage bags to keep
dust and dog hair out of 'em. I'm always really fastidious about keeping
the drives closed and clean inside, and RL02s usually aren't that fussy
anyway. It kind of worries me that despite all the precautions they might
decide to up and crash at any time, but I guess that's life with a classic
computer. Anybody else have any similar experiences?
Bob
>Jerome Fine replies:
>
>I am in Toronto - M2R 3G3
>
>As an estimate, for 50 cartridges, the postage and packaging would
>probably be about $ 50 to the US (they are actually quite heavy and
>it originally cost about $ 1 per cartridge to ship) making a total
>of about $ 100. I would like to recover what I originally paid.
>
>Of course, the shipping and packaging might be a bit more and the
>media a bit less if shipping from Canada to the US poses a problem
>for customs evaluation.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Jerome Fine
Well I live in Kamloops BC (V2C 5G5) so I'm on the other side of the country if that is any help.
Mail me at (and include the two periods) ball.of.john<at>gmail<dot>com and we can work out a deal.
> hp 7980 PS board schematic, anyone have one
nope. Been looking for 7980/88780 schematics for years now.
Schematics were not part of the released service documentation.
Major clear out means I have several vintage items available,
if any interest let me know via email & I can send more
info. All items are free but must be collected. Based in
Northwest UK
1) Sun Enterprise E4000 with several (probably 8 or 10) CPU's,
and around 6G of RAM. CD/DVD drive. All checks out working
and in good clean condition. 4 PSUs.
2) Sun 3/60 with 'shoebox' (HD case) and the hard to find
SCSI cable. This is a colour system, probably full RAM.
3/60's use a button cell to backup the system settings so
its easy to replace - unlike NVRAM chips which can be tricky.
Includes a keyboard and mouse (if I can find it).
3) I have a QBUS PDP 11 in an industrial style rack case. This
has no front cover but is believed to be functional. More info
if required, probably a 11/53 or similar.
4) Last but not least a PDP 11/24 with CPU and RAM (not known
how much) and some cabling. A number of unknown cards probably
Winchester controllers. In good order but no way of testing.
Contact me of list for more info etc if interested..
Ian.
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